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Mitch Pronschinske10/27/11
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Closure Object Binding in PHP 5.4

Closures (lambdas) have been a very popular and useful language feature ever since they debuted in JavaScript. Now Java 8 is planning to include them and PHP 5.4 is going to have Closure Object Binding. Christoph Hochstrasser is the author of the...

Mitch Pronschinske10/26/11
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The Firefox 7 Sync Meltdown: An Interesting Postmortem

You may have noticed major performance issues with Firefox Sync over the last few days if you use the feature. The Mozilla Service Operations have written up a very comprehensive and honest postmortem, just as you would expect from an open source,...

Mitch Pronschinske10/25/11
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Windows Phone Tombstoning with PhoneGap and Knockout.js

You may have heard that PhoneGap recently added support for Windows Phone 7 (WP7), which means that PhoneGap can now be used it to develop HTML5-based applications for that platform as well. This week we have been treated to a unique tutorial on Tombstoning...

Mitch Pronschinske10/24/11
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Debate - How to Interface the PHP World

The PHP community was reacting to Lukas Smith's "Interfacing the PHP world" for most of last weekend. Here was his introduction to the problem:

Mitch Pronschinske10/23/11
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How to Clone Wikipedia and Index it with Solr

It took 6 weeks, but Fred Zimmerman, a blogger for Nimblebooks.com just completed a very cool use case scenario for Solr indexing. He cloned all of Wikipedia and then indexed it with Solr:1. "Hardware. I found out the hard way that 32-bit Ubuntu...

Mitch Pronschinske10/22/11
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OpenStreetMap API framework for PHP

OpenStreetMap is a global project with an aim of collaboratively collecting map data, and today Ken Guest has submitted his PHP package for communitcating with the OSM API to the public and the PEAR PEPr review process:

Mitch Pronschinske10/22/11
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Opera Adds HTML5 Webcam Input: getUserMedia

The latest builds of Opera now support the 'getUserMedia' HTML5 API. This allows you to set up an HTML5 <video> as the input for a webcam recording. Here's a simple code snippet showing how this works:

Mitch Pronschinske10/21/11
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PHP 5.4 Will Have a Built-in Web Server

Yet another new feature to look forward to in PHP 5.4.0 - the CLI SAPI will now provide a built-in web server which is geared toward developmental purposes. It shouldn't be used in production right now. According to the page on this feature, which was...

Mitch Pronschinske10/21/11
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HTML5 and Flash Use Cases: Agree or Disagree?

I thought about doing an article about this a while back but a few weeks after Adobe MAX, there is already a codification article on when to use HTML5 and when you should still use Flash. The article also recommends when you should write native platform...

Mitch Pronschinske10/21/11
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Walking Developer Animation in Pure CSS3

It's really astonishing the things that web developers can do today working with nothing but CSS3. Andrew Hoyer took it to a whole 'nother level today with a CSS animation of himself walking (and fun signs in the background). You can see a pic I took...

Mitch Pronschinske10/20/11
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Exadel

Exadel is a software development tooling firm that produces multiple open source and commercial solutions for mobile development, financial services, and JSF. Short Description: ...

Mitch Pronschinske10/20/11
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Versant

Versant Corporation is a database management solution vendor with products that include the Versant Object Database, FastObjects, and the open source "db4o." Short Description: ...

Mitch Pronschinske10/20/11
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Vaadin

Vaadin is a software company and also a Java framework that allows developers to build modern web applications with a Swing-like, desktop development process. Short Description: ...

Mitch Pronschinske10/20/11
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Animate.css: Plug and Play CSS Animations

Who needs Flash for simple web animations these days? In fact, who needs jQuery? Animate.css is a recently unveiled bundle of CSS animations that you can use just by adding the class to the element, or by calling the in your CSS file. Classes and the...

Mitch Pronschinske10/19/11
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NetBeans

NetBeans, a department of Oracle, produces an open source Java IDE called "NetBeans IDE" and a multi-language delelopment platform called "NetBeans Platform." Short Description: ...