This episode is solely a recording of Kyle Simpson’s discussion of SWFObject – how it works, recent changes, common problems people have using it, and more.
Link: Episode 65: Kyle Simpson’s SWFObject presentation from JSConf
It looks like the 1.8.0 version of the Zend Framework was tagged today in the SVN repo: http://framework.zend.com/svn/framework/standard/tags/release-1.8.0/
Here is the the content of the README.txt:
Welcome to the Zend Framework 1.8 Release!
RELEASE INFORMATION
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Zend Framework 1.8 Release (revision 15226).
Released on April 30, 2009
NEW FEATURES
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* Zend_Tool, contributed by Ralph Schindler
* Zend_Application, contributed by Ben Scholzen and Matthew Weier O'Phinney
* Zend_Loader_Autoloader and Zend_Loader_Autoloader_Resource,
contributed by Matthew Weier O'Phinney
* Zend_Navigation, contributed by Robin Skoglund
* Zend_CodeGenerator, by Ralph Schindler
* Zend_Reflection, Ralph Schindler and Matthew Weier O'Phinney
* Zend Server backend for Zend_Cache, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Zend_Service_Amazon_Ec2, contributed by Jon Whitcraft
* Zend_Service_Amazon_S3, Justin Plock and Stas Malyshev
* Zend_Filter_Encrypt, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Filter_Decrypt, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Filter_LocalizedToNormalized and _NormalizedToLocalized,
contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Support for file upload progress support in Zend_File_Transfer,
contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Translation-aware routes, contributed by Ben Scholzen
* Zend_Json expression support, contributed by Benjamin Eberlei and
Oscar Reales
* Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Curl, contributed by Benjamin Eberlei
* SOAP input and output header support, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Support for keyword field search using query strings,
contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Support for searching across multiple indexes in Zend_Search_Lucene,
contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Significant improvements for Zend_Search_Lucene search result match
highlighting capabilities, contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Support for page scaling, shifting and skewing in Zend_Pdf,
contributed by Alexander Veremyev
* Zend_Tag_Cloud, contributed by Ben Scholzen
* Locale support in Zend_Validate_Int and Zend_Validate_Float,
contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Phonecode support in Zend_Locale, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Validate_Db_RecordExists and _RecordNotExists, contributed by
Ryan Mauger
* Zend_Validate_Iban, contributed by Thomas Weidner
* Zend_Validate_File_WordCount, contributed by Thomas Weidner
A detailed list of all features and bug fixes in this release may be found at:
http://framework.zend.com/issues/secure/IssueNavigator.jspa?requestId=11002
SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS
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Zend Framework requires PHP 5.2.4 or later. Please see our reference
guide for more detailed system requirements:
http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/requirements.html
INSTALLATION
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Please see INSTALL.txt.
QUESTIONS AND FEEDBACK
----------------------
Online documentation can be found at http://framework.zend.com/manual.
Questions that are not addressed in the manual should be directed to the
appropriate mailing list:
http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFDEV/Mailing+Lists
If you find code in this release behaving in an unexpected manner or
contrary to its documented behavior, please create an issue in the Zend
Framework issue tracker at:
http://framework.zend.com/issues
If you would like to be notified of new releases, you can subscribe to
the fw-announce mailing list by sending a blank message to
fw-announce-subscribe@lists.zend.com.
LICENSE
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The files in this archive are released under the Zend Framework license.
You can find a copy of this license in LICENSE.txt.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
----------------
The Zend Framework team would like to thank all the contributors to the Zend
Framework project, our corporate sponsor, and you, the Zend Framework user.
Please visit us sometime soon at http://framework.zend.com.
This one was brought to my attention by Jonathan Moore of New Ezra. A great run through of the psychology behind a great user experience.
To be good user experience folks, we need to crack open some psych 101 textbooks, learn what motivates people and then bake these ideas into our designs.
Link: The Art & Science of Seductive Interactions
Polaris is a free Adobe AIR application that brings Google Analytics (Google's statistics tracking tool for web publishers) to your desktop with an attractive look and feel.
via Lifehacker – Polaris Brings Google Analytics to Your Desktop – Featured Download.
Kindly hold your VRML jokes until the end…
O3D is an open-source web API for creating rich, interactive 3D applications in the browser. This API is shared at an early stage as part of a conversation with the broader developer community about establishing an open web standard for 3D graphics.
Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg shares her trilogy of ideas for a successful start-up and a fulfilling career. Her thoughts include building an enterprise with scalable vision, building personalized, scalable products, and the ability to scale your own connections and capabilities.
Stanford’s Entrepreneurship Corner: Sheryl Sandberg, Facebook – Spotlight on Scalability.
A study done by Bill Scott with Standford in Fall 2008 steps through the process that Netflix used to improve page performance for its users. An important part of the process is setting up the right measurement tools; something I found really interesting.
PDF: High Performance Web Pages – A Netflix Case Study.
At OpenX we recently completed a large-scale deployment of one of our server farms to Amazon EC2. Here are some lessons learned from that experience
via Agile Testing: Experiences deploying a large-scale infrastructure in Amazon EC2.
Today marks the beginning of a brand new series that will show you EXACTLY how to get started with PHP. Just as with the “jQuery for Absolute Beginners” series, we’ll start from scratch and slowly work our way up to some more advanced topics.
via In the Woods – Diving into PHP: Video Series.
Before launching any new website, feature, or upgrade, it has to be tested. The worst nightmare of any programmer, designer, or business is to launch a broken website that drives away users and hurts reputations. It will only create more work, more headaches, and lost profits.
via 7 Useful Tools for Web Development Testing.
