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Google recently launched Google Doctype, a wiki-style encyclopedia for web developers of the open web, a “web built on open standards: HTML, JavaScript, CSS, and more.” Anyone with a Google account can contribute and edit. Currently, the wiki consists of HOWTO articles on web security, DOM manipulation, CSS and style, tips and tricks—in addition to code for developers. 

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Google's new web site Doctype rounds up web development tips, tricks, and best practices in an editable format à la Wikipedia. Whether you dabble in HTML on your blog or you're a full-on web...

IBM developerWorks: Discover
PHP's new features and syntax improvements and see how they will take
this already-popular scripting language to the next level. Learn how
Unicode support, Web 2.0 features, and other changes make PHP V6 more
robust, as well as more international.

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IBM developerWorks: Discover
PHP's new features and syntax improvements and see how they will take
this already-popular scripting language to the next level. Learn how
Unicode support, Web 2.0 features, and other changes make PHP V6 more
robust, as well as more international.

Complete Story

The PHP development team started the month of May with the release of PHP 5.2.6. With over 120 bug fixes, this release is mainly focused on stability. There are however several security enhancements in PHP 5.2.6:

• Fixed possible stack buffer overflow in the FastCGI SAPI identified by Andrei Nigmatulin.
• Fixed integer overflow in printf() identified by Maksymilian Aciemowicz.
• Fixed security issue detailed in CVE-2008-0599 identified by Ryan Permeh.
• Fixed a safe_mode bypass in cURL identified by Maksymilian Arciemowicz.
• Properly address incomplete multibyte chars inside escapeshellcmd() identified by Stefan Esser.
• Upgraded bundled PCRE to version 7.6

References: Release Announcement, PHP 5.2.6 ChangeLog, PHP.net Download page

ComputerWorld: Industry analysts and a professional developer examine the state of
Microsoft's 'Flash killer' multimedia development technology as it
enters its second year and discuss what it will take for it to succeed.

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Google this week anounced that it was going to let outside developers host their applications on Google infrastructure through a new product: Google App Engine. This is the latest in a long list of products from Google who are most probably the world's leading Internet company and may well become the most important IT company, if they aren't already. The offering from Google does not work in the same way as conventional web hosting, instead you must devise a solution that will work with their infrastructure, but in return the promise that your solution will be able to scale to keep up with demand with such things as load balancing taken care of automatically. This probably won't be a problem for most developers who are used to devising solutions that work with in-house IT requirements anyway.

Open source is one of the fastest-growing trends in web development and design right now. And Drupal is one of the hottest trends in open source web development. Many companies and organizations have already made the switch to Drupal, and many more in the process of making Drupal their web development platform. In fact, even though you may not know it, you have probably visited several web sites that have been built using Drupal.

What is Drupal?

Drupal is a content management system that makes web design and development easier and more convenient. It is open source, so Drupal web developers can be anyone who wants to contribute. Additionally, Drupal is under an open public license, and free to use, which means you are in control. (And you can save money!)

Drupal web development is scalable, flexible and offers a wide range of benefits and options. Drupal offers theming, content management, web portal development and management, and more. Drupal is the platform of Web 2.0; it is the future of web design and development.

Telerik, a leading vendor of developer tools and components for .NET, is happy to present Sitefinity CMS v3.2 – a flexible, hassle-free development platform for the construction and management of websites, intranets, and community portals. Sitefinity v3.2 is the succeeding milestone in Telerik’s quest for a feature-rich web development tool with unrivaled usability and compatibility.

“There are many CMS platforms on the market that offer rich functionality for both end user and developers. The comprehensive web development tools, however, always come at the expense of usability. When selecting a CMS, customers usually are up against the trade off “complete vs. user-friendly” platform. We spotted that business opportunity and have been continuously working on providing a comprehensive development platform that does not sacrifice the freedom of both web developers and end-users, yet offers simplicity and ease-of-use” says Vassil Terziev, Telerik CEO. “Sitefinity v3.2 represents a final touch to offering complete content publishing functionality that comes with intuitive user experience”.

Last October, Packt Publishing sent me one of their latest books on the Plone CMS, Professional Plone Development. This is a book I had been saving for review until I had a chance to install and use Plone myself. Plone is one of those CMS that I've really wanted to learn more about by installing it on the server myself. Unfortunately, too many things on my "I want" list have had to compete with my "I need" list and I never got around to installing Plone. With no Plone on the server, I unfortunately never got around to reviewing the Plone book written by Martin Aspeli either.

"Frameworks are all the rage these days. If someone says lets
build a web application there is usually a developer nearby saying
let's use a framework to build that. Sure, there are times when using a
framework isn't the way to go. But, for 99% of the new web applications
that need to be built there are great benefits from using a framework.
Let's take a look at 7 of them."

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New Training and Whitepaper on IE 7 Security Now Available

• Companies have had many questions about deploying and securing IE7 on the desktop
• Microsoft released an Internet Explorer Desktop Security Guide that discusses many of the new security features along with recommended settings

PithHelmet 2.7 beta released

• PithHelmet adds content filtering (ads, flash, shockwave, midi loops, etc.) to the Safari browser
• This version was engineered specifically to work with the Safari 3 betas

Windows Vienna and IE 8 features leaked

Breaking Down the Walls Of Phones’ Web Gardens

Opera 9.5 to have screen reader support

Flock Community Ambassador starts holding weekly “Office Hours”

Introduction to Information Cards