WordPress : PHP 4 and MySQL 4 End of Life Announcement
Our approach with WordPress has always been to make it run on common server configurations. We want users to have flexibility when choosing a host for their precious content. Because of this strategy, WordPress runs pretty much anywhere. Web hosting platforms, however, change over time, and we occasionally are able to reevaluate some of the requirements for running WordPress. Now is one of those times. You probably guessed it from the title — we’re finally ready to announce the end of support for PHP 4 and MySQL 4!
First up, the announcement that developers really care about. WordPress 3.1, due in late 2010, will be the last version of WordPress to support PHP 4.
Source : WordPress official post
Student application for Google Summer of Code is now open
Yesterday evening Google opened the student application phase for Google Summer of Code 2010. Students can now start handing in applications for projects they want to work on during the summer.
At TYPO3, you can find a list of project ideas our community has come up with. It's also worth re-checking the ideas page as some additions have been made since we created those pages for this years Google Summer of Code.
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PHP6 suspended
For many days the eyes of the developers were facing the future of PHP 6. Rasmus Lerdorf hand a statement to announce that construction of the version 6 was deadlocked and therefore this branch has been stopped.
The decision of this difficult choice is caused by the integration of Unicode, which shows that this site is harder to implement than forecast.
Of course the contributors in this industry want to leave a little time to find a new trend.
Regarding other developments that would occur with PHP 6 are
- Improvement of Object Oriented Programming
- Improved security and functionality
- Evolution of deposit PECL
- Various improvements
These points are still valid and should be integrated in future versions
Communication is important !
I'll never say this enough : Communication is very important in a project's team.
Microsoft will support jQuery JS library
Scott Guthrie, vice president of platform. NET at Microsoft, announced at the MIX10 that Microsoft would actively contribute to the development of the jQuery JavaScript library.
Meanwhile, Redmond, Microsoft will also work to improve interoperability between ASP.NET and the same library for developers. NET can better incorporate its features.
Finally, Microsoft is committed to the promotion of the jQuery JavaScript library in the distribution with development products such as popular Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 and ASP.NET MVC 2 (which comes out officially).
To "mark the spot," and as a first step, Microsoft has decided to donate a templating engine for the team in charge of the library.
The co-creator of XML Oracle left for Google, Tim Bray will work on Android
Tim Bray, who had been at the origin (in part) of writing XML, has just announced a few hours ago on his blog that he left Sun / Oracle to join Google in a position of "Developer Advocate "focus on Android.
He predicts that it will be very exciting and seems delighted with this change.
It must be said that in recent months, his relationship with his former employer had deteriorated somewhat, especially when he had to censor his blog about the merger Sun / Oracle.
He therefore sought to leave his office and found refuge with Google, which has created the post altogether just for him.
Tim and already seems very committed to the firm in Mountain View, seen as the incense on his blog.
Source :
developpez.net
Professional Design Patterns catalog
While Googling, looking for "Front Controller Pattern", I found a very complete site about design patterns. The author produce a lot of efforts to catalog patterns for enterprise software development.
Take a look on the website
Author's website
WP 3.0 – Development cycle report
The WordPress team posted the 3.0 development cycle report.
It speaks about menus, the merge and the patching.
The announce the feature freeze date too, that's fixed to March the first 2010.
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FireStats Charts 1.0.2 released
I just released FireStats Charts 1.0.2 
It comes with some little fixes.
Enjoy !
1.0.2 changelog :
- Removed static graph image
- Added temp graph png generation
- Added temp directory file cleaning (older than 1 hour)