What are the most important principles in software development? An insight on the basic motifs of the current methodologies.

MySQL, the popular SQL database, has announced a new release of their Community Server edition. This is version 5.1.45.

Zend has announced via its CTO the availability of Zend Server and Zend Studio for the IBM i platform, enhancing PHP support on IBM servers.

This week we talk with Blue Parabola Alumni Matthew Turland about the awesomeness that is Phergie.

Drizzle is poised to be the database of choice for the future of cloud computing.

Since development of version 5.0 started Diem has been an open source initiative. The first stable version is now released.

Solar 1.0.0 Stable was released on Monday, and even Slashdot has noticed.

There’s been a significant decision reached recently concerning the future of PHP, in particular for the development of PHP 6. Yesterday, the PHP Internals group reached what seems to be a tentative agreement to postpone implementation of a Unicode PHP engine, and instead focus on developing PHP 5.3 as the main PHP development branch.

Open PHP MyProfiler could be the answer for your MySQL profiling needs.

There’s been lots of buzz about Zend Framework 2.0 recently, and for good reason: the feature list is truly kick-ass. With dozens of proposed changes, the second iteration of the web’s most popular framework is looking to be considerably better, more efficient and easier to use than the first, while still offering the functionality that framework users have come to expect.