Official Gmail Blog: Spice up your inbox with colors and themes

Google launching Gmail themes today

Link: Official Gmail Blog: Spice up your inbox with colors and themes

Zend Framework 1.7.0 is now available

Zend Framework 1.7.0 is now available from the Zend Framework download site: http://framework.zend.com/download/latest. Check out the link for more details.

Link: Zend Framework 1.7.0 is now available

Large monitors on production floor show company’s Basecamp milestones

This is just cool…

Santiago Gomez, IT Manager at A. D. Williams Engineering, describes how the company set up large LCD monitors on the production floor to show the company's Basecamp milestones.

Link: Large monitors on production floor show company’s Basecamp milestones

Zend Framework components as separate zips from the main distro? Sure!

Did you ever want to use just a single component from Zend Framework, but couldn’t figure out which files you needed? Well, here’s a solution: Zend Framework packageizer script! Just pick the class you want, and you’ll get it and all its dependencies in a nice zip file for you to consume.

Link: Zend Framework components as separate zips from the main distro? Sure!

21 ways to streamline your CSS

These days, CSS development is a complex process. You may be working on sites with large CSS files, multiple developers ,and long development timelines. The more complex your CSS files become, the more difficult it is to work with them. This article will present some tips and tricks for keeping your CSS files organized and easy to work with.

Link: 21 ways to streamline your CSS

Taglocity Brings Gmail-like Tagging to Outlook

Microsoft Outlook plug-in Taglocity brings Gmail-style tagging to your Outlook email.

Link: Taglocity Brings Gmail-like Tagging to Outlook

Introduction to Zend_Db

A pretty good real world overview of how to use Zend_Db (from the Zend Framework)

Link: Introduction to Zend_Db

How to Manage Sessions Using Memcached

Dormando shows an enlightened middle way for storing sessions in cache and the database. Sessions are a perfect cache candidate because they are transient, smallish, and since they are usually accessed on every page access removing all that load from the database is a good thing. But as Dormando points out session caches have problems

Link: How to Manage Sessions Using Memcached