winrar is an archiving utility that completely supports rar and zip archives and is able to unpack cab, arj, lzh, tar, gz, ace, uue, bz2, jar, iso, 7z, z archives. it consistently makes smaller archives than the competition, saving disk space and transmission costs. .. .. ..
Marek’s JAX-RS 2.0 content from Devoxx 2011
marek potociar, one of the two co-spec leads for the upcoming jax-rs 2.0 had a very well-attended session at devoxx and wrote a blog post about it detailing his conference experience (1st time at devoxx) and running through the new features of the specification. a link to slides is also included in his post. the work by the expert group seems very solid at this point as you can .. .. ..
Call for jQuery 1.8 Ideas
we’re ready for our next round of community input, this time for version 1.8! this is your chance to suggest things we can fix, add, change, or remove in jquery to make it better. you can add a suggestion using this form; whenever possible provide links to a bug report, a page with a detailed description, or implementations that represent your idea. we’d like to have all your input .. .. ..
Should MySQL update the default innodb_log_file_size?
now that innodb is the default storage engine in mysql, is it time to update the default configuration for the innodb log file size (innodb_log_file_size) setting? in general, there are two settings that simply can’t be left at their historical defaults for a production installation. mysql 5.5 increased the default buffer pool size to something .. .. ..
jQuery 1.7.1 Released
here in the united states, we’re celebrating thanksgiving this week. for those of you living elsewhere in the world, it’s a time when we install and test new versions of javascript libraries while feasting on mom’s homemade goodies. kind of like a code sprint, but with better food. we invite everyone worldwide to join us in these traditions. to kick off the festivities, the .. .. ..
PHPBuilder.com: Talking to Facebook’s Social Graph with PHP
on phpbuilder.com there’s a recent post showing you how to connect your application with facebook’s graph api and grabbing the current user’s public profile information. in recent years, [facebook's] influence has dramatically grown thanks to the facebook platform, a set of apis which third-parties can use to create or extend applications which tightly integrate with .. .. ..
Ibuildings techPortal: DPC Radio: Distributed Couch Apps – Embracing eventual consistency
on the ibuildings techportal today they’ve posted the latest episode of their dpc radio series of podcasts, recordings of sessions from this year’s dutch php conference. in this new episode they share the presentation by kore nordmann “distributed couch apps – embracing eventual consistency”. couchdb is a prominent representative of the nosql movement. using its .. .. ..
PHPMaster.com: Localizing PHP Applications "The Right Way", Part 4
in the latest installment of their “localizing php applications ‘the right way’” tutorial series (part four), they show off a feature of gettext that makes it simpler to deal with singular versus plural versions of your translations. in part 3 you learned some of the more important aspects of real-world localizing your application, such as using a default fallback .. .. ..
Kevin Schroeder’s Blog: Connecting to the Zend Developer Cloud with PHPStorm
a few days ago kevin schroeder showed how to connect the zend cloud services with the zend studio ide. in this new post he shows how to connect another popular ide – phpstorm. just because you want to use the zend developer cloud at phpcloud.com doesn’t mean that you necessarily use zend studio. while i may wonder why you don’t use zend studio ( ) i know there are a lot of .. .. ..
