The state of MongoDB, March 2010

by Jeff Carouth · March 9, 2010

Eliot Horowitz and the rest of the core MongoDB Team released a post on the project blog addressing current and future development of the project. The team has released two stable releases — 1.0 and 1.2 — and has a third, version 1.4, coming that contains “better concurrency, geospatial indexing, ‘usability’ enhancements and speed enhancements, to name a few.”

phpBB 3.0.7-PL1 released

by Carl Anderson · March 6, 2010

The new release fixes a security vulnerability (shocking, we know); users are urged to update.

It’s not all about the code

by Koen van Urk · March 5, 2010

There is more to it than writing lines of code. What about planning?

Contributing to Zend Framework

by Giorgio Sironi ·

Contributing to your favorite open source PHP framework is a gift to the project’s community. Moreover, you will surely benefit from not having to patch it by yourself at every new release.

PHP 5.3.2 released

by Carl Anderson · March 4, 2010

The PHP development team today released PHP 5.3.2, a maintenance release fixing a large number of bugs and a few security issues as well.

Static methods vs singletons: choose neither

by Ryan Weaver · March 3, 2010

Comparing the performance of a static method with that of a singleton ignores an important issue: that neither is the best answer to the problem they try to solve.

Can Flex save Flash?

by Cal Evans ·

Is Flash dying? Despite the many cries to the contrary, hardly so—at least for people who need to get practical things done within realistic deadlines, rather than spend their time pontificating about esoteric conspiracy theories.

oddWeek Episode #4

by Cal Evans · March 2, 2010

oddWeek Episode 4. The one where Elizabeth Naramore talks about PHPWomen, Python websites and open source projects not run by douchbags. Come join us

2010 Future of Open Source survey now open

by Carl Anderson ·

The 2010 edition of the Future of Open Source survey is now available. This survey is backed by the Future of Open Source Forum, and has collaborators including such well-known Open Source leaders as North Bridge, RedHat, MySQL, Novell, SugarCRM, and others.

Saving Images in AIR Applications

by Cal Evans · March 1, 2010

Our own Cal Evans has been documenting his adventures in AIR land for a while on his blog—and now brings his musings on the subject of image encoding to php|architect. Read on for some fun with Flex!