Fifth Cable Cut, Iran Loses Net Connectivity
Original post provide by Slashdot: ITYou may have noticed a number of stories recently about undersea cables getting cut around the world. Apparently the total is now up to 5, but the scariest part of this is that Iran is now offline. You can also read Schneier’s comments on this coincidence.
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Ed Finkler's Blog: What I'm Looking Forward To In PHP6
Ed Finkler has a little PHP6related humor posted to his blog today some things he's looking forward to in PHP6: His tongueincheek list includes things like: Punctuationonly variable names HDMI outputs ASCIIart generators added to core (once CLAs are signed) Improved elegance Looking for something a bit more realistic?
Derick Rethans' Blog: EZ Components 2008.1 Roadmap
Derick Rethans has posted about the new roadmap the eZ Components project will follow to arrive at the 2008.1 release of the collection of components. In the new release we will be addressing some importing parts of Web applications: RSS/Atom feeds, Document conversion, Search and Translations.
TrueCrypt 5.0 Released, Now Encrypts Entire Drive
A funny little man writes "The popular open source privacy tool, TrueCrypt, has just received a major update. The most exciting new feature provides the ability to encrypt an entire drive, prompting the user for a password during boot up; this makes TrueCrypt the perfect tool for non-technical laptop users (the kind who are likely to lose all of that sensitive customer data).
Community News: Latest PHPClasses.org Releases For 02.06.2008
Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:convertSimple navigationPHP TablesXML ClassSitemap creator for Google, Yahoo and MSNPHPBiDiSimplePaginatorSortable ElementsSnPayPalApiMBTemplate ClassHTTP ServerXCS Parser
DHS Official Suggests REAL ID Mission Creep
A blogger on the Center for Democracy and Technology site said, "[The] suggested mission creep pushes the REAL ID program farther down the slippery slope toward a true national ID card." Speaking of federal buildings, CNet has a state-by-state enumeration of what will happen on May 11, when REAL ID comes into effect, to citizens who attempt to enter, say, the Washington DC visitors bureau.Read more of this story at Slashdot.
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Padraic Brady's Blog: The Zend Framework, Dependency Injection And Zend_Di
He talks about what DI (dependency injection) is and what it can be used for and includes a simple example set around a controller in the framework that uses the Zend_Di component to make a mock Zend_Mail that can be used in testing too.
Froglogic Releases Squish 3.3, The Automated GUI Testing Tool
froglogic GmbH announced version 3.3 of the leading, cross-platform automated GUI testing tool Squish. Squish supports creating and running automated GUI tests of applications based on a variety of user interface technologies including Trolltech's Qt toolkit, Java AWT/Swing/NetBeans, Java SWT/Eclipse RCP/JFaces, Web/HTML/AJAX and Mac OS X Carbon/Cocoa.
FCC's Spectrum Auction Approaches $20B In Bids
Since the auction began on Jan. 24, both the FCC and wireless experts have expressed ongoing concerns about meeting those estimates. Once the auction was underway, those worries were compounded by a shaky economic forecast and the possibility of a looming recession."Read more of this story at Slashdot.
OPC DataHub Uses Streaming AJAX And New Java Applets To Create Dynamic Web Pages
The OPC DataHub from Cogent Real-Time Systems now provides even more ways to visualize and interact with real-time data in a web browser. Its new streaming AJAX Web Data Browser displays immediate updates to data from a wide range of sources like databases, spreadsheets, and OPC servers.
ProDevTips.com: Why PHP As A Templating Language Sucks
He suggests the opposite, however that PHP as a templating language (templating software written in PHP sitting on top of a PHP application) is a really bad idea. It only adds overhead that most developers, unless they're experienced with the technology enough to know how to use it, will only work around (like the {php}{/php} tags in Smarty).