Lithium 0.6 brings new features, improved bootstrap and a completely revamped template layer to the fledgling PHP 5 framework.

Paul M. Jones, founder and lead developer of the Solar Framework, recently announced the release of Solar Framework 1.0.0Beta4. The very complete and copious release nodes can be found here.

Despite Microsoft SQL Server 2008 having been out for some time, Microsoft is still planning on providing extended support—through 2011—to the 2005 edition of its flagship DBMS.

The third release in the WordPress 2.9 series addresses a vulnerability that could cause deleted posts to become visible to users other than the original author.

Apache Ant updated to 1.8.0, brings speedups along with other improvements.

jQuery recently disabled two of it’s popular features, UI Downloader and Theme Builder while it works through issues that users are having.

Zend Framework released a maintenance release, 1.10.1. The big news with this release is not the 50 bugs squashed since the last release, it’s the effort to revamp the documentation.

Anyone developing with PHP quickly learns that PHP’s ability to generate HTML is both a blessing and a curse. While PHP supports the ability to generate dynamic websites and HTML, it often creates kludgy and difficult code. Facebook, one of the world’s largest consumers of PHP and fresh off their announcement of HipHop, has noted […]

Facebook’s HipHop is a game changing-technology for companies deploying large scale applications written in PHP.

Blue Parabola and php|architect are working on supporting HipHop with a series of new initiatives, ranging from content to consulting.

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