After teasing us with an unveiling seven months ago Google finally opened up Google Knol to everybody. What does this mean Depending on who you ask it means higher quality content to index the death of Wikipedia and the rise of content thieves. It s also another step towards a Google monopoly. Keep reading for the details….
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Cuil supposedly means wisdom in Gaelic. In English pronounced cool it means business when it comes to Internet search. That s what its founders nearly all ex-Google employees want you to believe. Let s take a look at their claims and their performance to see whether it s wise to take them seriously….
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Last week, I got an email from Garrett Serack, M’soft Open Source Community Developer. Microsoft have been kind enough to donate a set of ADOdb drivers for the new MSSQL Native Extension for PHP. You can download the extension here and the ADOdb drivers here.
Garrett also mentions that ADOdb is the first LGPL project that Microsoft has ever contributed to. I quote from his email to me:
ADODB is actually the first LGPL Open Source project that Microsoft has ever contributed to.
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A few weeks ago the manual was restructured to improve navigation and make room for per-extension chapters and usage examples along with improved documentation for object oriented extensions. The most noticable changes are the function reference, predefined variables, context options and parameters and predefined exceptions manual pages, for which we would really appreciate feedback on. The upcomming PHP5.3 release introduces several major features such as namespaces, closures, late static bindings, internationalization functions, INI sections, and Phar among others. We would really appreciate (more…)
Overall 158 tests have been submitted as part of TestFest 2008 since the launch of the TestFest submission site by 30 different people from people all over the world. Actually this is not counting the various submissions by existing core developers, who also took this opportunity to add some more tests. This has actually increased total test coverage by about 10%. While the organization of the TestFest was a bit adhoc, there were numerous TestFest events in local user groups. So the number of people exposed to the PHP test framework is much greater. Hopefully this will lead to more people subm (more…)