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Zend Developer Zone: Book Review: Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP [2007-07-16 09:00:36] On the Zend Developer Zone today, Cal Evans has posted a review of one of Wrox Press' latest PHP-related offerings, "Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP" (by Jamie Sirovich and Cristian Darie). I'd like to say that this book has changed my way of thinking about SEO Professionals, but it hasn't. It has, however, given me enough information so that I can make my own projects more SE friendly and allow me to help my friends do the same. Cal talks about the contents of the book, including his favorite chapter (chapter 2) that gives a quick-hit primer to the world of search engine optimization. The rest of the book is divided up into specialization topics inside of SEO like "SE Friendly URLs", "Duplicate Content" and "Link Bait". Plus, check out what Cal has to say about one of the Appendixes...

PHP-GTK Community Site: MkDevDVD (DVD Manager for Linux) [2007-07-16 08:59:34] The PHP-GTK Community Site has posted about a quick little application today - MkDevDVD - a DVD manager for Linux. MkDevDVD is a /dev/dvd manager for Linux, which in itself does not sound too exciting. It allows you to quickly switch /dev/dvd between a symbolic link to your CDROM device, or mount a DVD ISO so that media players like Xine and Mplayer work correctly when looking up your DVD. The application is currently in release 1.0 and can be downloaded directly here or you an get more information about it and how to install it from the project's homepage.

Secunia.com: SUSE update for php4 and php5 [2007-07-16 08:58:30] As posted on Secunia.com today, the SuSE linux distribution has release updates to both their PHP4 and PHP5 packages today: SUSE has issued an update for php4 and php5. This fixes some vulnerabilities, where one has an unknown impact and others can be exploited by malicious, local users to bypass certain security restrictions and gain escalated privileges, and by malicious people to to cause a DoS (Denial of Service), bypass certain security restrictions, and potentially compromise a vulnerable system. They have the update marked as highly critical so it it suggested that users of SuSE upgrade immediately. The Secunia posting has links to all of the package downloads for each of the platform types and for multiple SuSE versions.

Community News: Xinc Project Release - Release Candidate 1 [2007-07-11 08:08:56] The Xinc project has released the latest version of their continuous integration tool (Xinc Is Not CruiseControl) - Release Candidate 1. Xinc (Xinc Is Not CruiseControl) is a free open source continuous integration tool written in PHP 5. It currently supports Subversion and Phing but is extensible to work with any version control or build tool. Xinc is released under an LGPL license. [...] The release candidate contains an updated basic web reporting component. This can be utilized simply by copying web/index.php to a web accessible location. Their goal is to have a release of the stable 1.0 version in about three weeks and have frozen the code base in preparation. Most of the work left to be done involves the setup of a PEAR channel (to make installation a snap) and fleshing out the documentation to make things easier for developers just coming in and checking it out.

International PHP Magazine: Three Releases - Graphing, Blitz and Plugins [2007-07-06 07:50:09] The International PHP Magazine has links to announcements of three new releases of PHP-related applications - the PHP Advanced Graph and Chart Collection, Blitz Templates and the Generic PHP Plugins & Config System: + PHP Advanced Graph and Chart Collection 5.1 provides a very easy way to embed dynamically-generated graphs and charts into PHP applications and HTML Web pages + Blitz templates 0.4.19 Blitz templates is a fast template engine written in C and compiled as a PHP module. It started as a php_templates replacement, but developed into much more. + Generic PHP plugins and config system 0.75 Plugin meta descriptions can reside as human-friendly comment blocks in .php scripts. Generic PHP Config reads them and facilitates plugin and configuration setting management.

Sebastian Bergmann's Blog: PHPUnit 3.1.0 (Release Announcement) [2007-07-04 21:03:40] Sebastian Bergmann has posted the official release of one of the most popular unit testing software packages for PHP on the web - PHPUnit 3.1.0. Included in the advancements he mentions are things like: + Improvements to Mock Objects include the ability to mock classes and methods that do not exist as well as mocking static methods. And mocked methods can raise exceptions now. + PHPUnit can now write test result and code coverage data to a test database. Several ideas for future features depend on this data. + New template methods, PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase::sharedAssertions(), PHPUnit_Framework_TestSuite::setUp(), PHPUnit_Framework_TestSuite::tearDown(), and PHPUnit_Extensions_SeleniumTestCase::defaultAssertions(), ease the development of test cases. This latest version can be pulled from PHPUnit's Trac repository or via the PEAR installer (recommended method).

Jonathan Street's Blog: PHP5 Compete API Wrapper [2007-07-04 21:01:19] Jonathan Street has officially released his version of a Complete API (for Complete.com) to grab traffic information for a particular site. With the exception of a link from the homepage, which is apparently in the works, Compete has made good on the points I raised so it's time for me to fulfil my part of the deal and release a PHP5 wrapper for the compete API. The wrapper is simple at this point, only containing only a few methods to make the connection with Complete.com, generate the query and pull out one of three bits of information (including the traffic).

PEAR Blog: Request for ideas: New developer FAQ [2007-07-01 22:17:33] The PEAR Blog has posted a request for ideas to help work up a new developer FAQ they can hand out to potential PEAR developers as a "jumpstart" guide to working with the package repository. New developers need quite a time to familiarize themselves with the rules and conventions in PEAR. With the new role of mentors in PEAR2, they will have a contact person they can ask in that cases. But in many cases the same questions will get asked which will get boring for the mentoring developer, so we need a Mini-FAQ with a list of things the newbie should know. They're looking for comments posted to the entry to help define this guide. So far, a suggested outline has been proposed by David Coallier for both general information and developer-specific details.

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