TSA Limits Lithium Batteries on Airplanes
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITyali writes “The U.S. Transportation and Security Administration has issued new rules limiting travel with lithium batteries. As of January 1, no spare lithium batteries are allowed in checked luggage. Batteries carried in the cabin are subject to limitations on per-battery and total lithium content, and spare batteries must have the terminals covered. If you’re returning home from the holidays with new toys, be sure to check out the new restrictions before you pack.”
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Domains May Disappear After Search
'Every time you do a whois search with any service, you run a risk of losing your domain,' says one industry insider. ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC ) has not been able to find hard evidence of Domain Name Front Running but they have issued an advisory (pdf) for people to come forward with hard evidence it is happening.
Ivo Jansch's Blog: Book Announcement: Enterprise PHP Development
Ivo Jansch is very happy to announce that it's official he will be authoring a book for php|architect all about PHP in the Enterprise: It will be one of the first books about PHP that will not cover PHP code. It is loosely based on my 'enterprise PHP development' talk at the Zend UK Business Conference last year.
Evan Sims' Blog: Announcing LibGameFly
At the moment it's very simple, just allowing you to expose your GameFly queue as a native PHP class and doing... well, whatever the hell you want with it. It works with some of the feed functionality (RSS/APIs) to grab data about users' accounts.
ProDevTips: Writing A CMS/Community With Smarty And The Zend Framework: Part 7
Since XOOPS didn't do it for me when it comes to this project I have started with the blog component. As it turns out, a blog is more complicated than you would think. Therefore this part will not cover the whole component, only as far as I've gotten at the moment.
Zend Developer Zone: Book Review: Learning PHP Data Objects
Akash talks briefly about the history of PDO and what it can be used for first, then gets into the contents of the book (things like the intro chapters and the quality of the writing). The thing he thinks makes the bok stand out, though, is the examples and sample code that reflect both simple methods and more complex issues PDO developers might run into.
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Microsoft Deprecating Some OOXML Functionality
The Microsoft-led industry standards group formally offering OOXML confirms in a 21 December 2007 announcement that issues related to the 'leap year bug', VML, compatibility settings such as 'AutoSpaceLikeWord95' and others will be 'extracted from the main specification and relocated to an independent annex in DIS 29500 for deprecated functionality.'"Read more of this story at Slashdot.
XML
It can also generate XML documents from nested arrays that define the document tag structure. The class can load XML documents from files or text strings. It turns the document tags into keys of a nested associative array.
Rich Internet Applications Vs AJAX: "2008 Will Be A Crucial Year"
While AJAX, as XML co-inventor Tim Bray puts it, 'tries to do everything in the browser using just what the browser ships with,' RIA frameworks like Adobe AIR, Microsoft Silverlight, and JavaFX aim to take developers beyond the limitations of the browser.
PHPLogger
It can open separate log files to write error log messages depending on the error severity levels. The class supports error severity levels: debug, info, notice, warning and error. Error messages of all severity levels are written to the default error log file.
How To Launch A Successful Technology Start-Up
I learned so much coping with the 'nuclear winter,' raising $18M in financing, working through all the challenges associated with the market, dealing with investors and everything else. I only wish that I had known all this before I got started.'