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Symfony Reloaded - 2.0 Preview Release

dharmavir — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:15:36 -0500

Symfony 2.0 leads a new generation of PHP frameworks

Based on an innovative architecture, Symfony 2 is fast, flexible, and easy to learn. It allows developers to build better and more easily maintainable websites with PHP.

- High Performance
- Easy learning
- Advanced Usability
- Extensible
- Flexible
- Built for Developers
- Built on the Shoulders
- of Giants
- Full-Featured
- Open-Source

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Zen Coding — a new way of writing HTML and CSS code

dharmavir — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:12:31 -0500

Zen Coding is an editor plugin for high-speed HTML, XML, XSL (or any other structured code format) coding and editing. The core of this plugin is a powerful abbreviation engine which allows you to expand expressions-similar to CSS selectors-into HTML code.

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I say Agile, You say Traditional, Document-Driven

dharmavir — Mon, 03 May 2010 14:00:26 -0500

As a Post-Modern Agilist, Naresh Jain leads Industrial Logic's initiatives in Asia. From Organizational Transformation to enhanced Developer productivity, Naresh helps organizations embrace, scale and sustain essential Agile and Lean thinking - I say Agile, You say Traditional, Document-Driven

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some helpful jQuery plugins by Brandon Aaron

dharmavir — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 05:24:57 -0600

Some handy and helpful commands for jQuery lovers authored by Brandon Aaron which includes following:

batch
Batch is a jQuery plugin that gives you the ability to batch the results of any jQuery method or plugin into an Array.

bgiframe
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A jQuery plugin that helps ease the pain when having to deal with IE z-index issues.

copyevents
A jQuery plugin that provides method for copying events from one element to another.
countable
A jQuery plugin that provides an unobtrusive input and textarea character counter.

each_slice
jQuery plugin that lets you iterate the given function for each slice of elements

expandable
A jQuery plugin that auto-expands textareas to fit the contents as a user types.

getfeed
A jQuery plugin wrapper for using the Google feeds API.
getscrollbarwidth

A jQuery plugin to retrieve the width of a system scrollbar.

gradient
A jQuery plugin that adds a dynamically created configurable gradient to the background of an element without the use of images.

mousewheel
A jQuery plugin that adds cross-browser mouse wheel support.

outerhtml
A jQuery plugin for getting the outerHTML of an element.

overlabel
A jQuery plugin to help implement the over label technique described in Making Compact Forms More Accessible by Mike Brittain on ALA.

scrollwindow
A scroll window plugin for jQuery.

spellcheck
A jQuery plugin that adds spellcheck support to inputs using the Google spell checker API.

swap
A jQuery plugin to swap elements within the DOM.

livequery
Live Query utilizes the power of jQuery selectors by binding events or firing callbacks for matched elements auto-magically, even after the page has been loaded and the DOM updated.

viewable
A jQuery plugin that allows you to know when an element is in view and what percentage of the element is viewable.

Virtual DOM Events
A collection of jQuery special events that provide more precision over normal DOM events. Includes mouserest, mouseremainover, mouseremainup, mouseremaindown, mouseremainout, keyremaindown, keyremainup, remainfocused, and remainblurred.

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CodeIgniter - Open source PHP web application framework

dharmavir — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 18:35:07 -0600

CodeIgniter is a powerful PHP framework with a very small footprint, built for PHP coders who need a simple and elegant toolkit to create full-featured web applications. If you're a developer who lives in the real world of shared hosting accounts and clients with deadlines, and if you're tired of ponderously large and thoroughly undocumented frameworks

* You want a framework with a small footprint.
* You need exceptional performance.
* You need broad compatibility with standard hosting accounts that run a variety of PHP versions and configurations.
* You want a framework that requires nearly zero configuration.
* You want a framework that does not require you to use the command line.
* You want a framework that does not require you to adhere to restrictive coding rules.

* You are not interested in large-scale monolithic libraries like PEAR.
* You do not want to be forced to learn a templating language (although a template parser is optionally available if you desire one).
* You eschew complexity, favoring simple solutions.
* You need clear, thorough documentation.

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CakePHP: the rapid development php framework

dharmavir — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:31:56 -0600

CakePHP enables PHP users at all levels to rapidly develop robust web applications.

CakePHP is a rapid development framework for PHP that provides an extensible architecture for developing, maintaining, and deploying applications. Using commonly known design patterns like MVC and ORM within the convention over configuration paradigm, CakePHP reduces development costs and helps developers write less code.

HOT Features
* No Configuration - Set-up the database and let the magic begin
* Extremely Simple - Just look at the name...It's Cake
* Active, Friendly Community - Join us #cakephp on IRC. We'd love to help you get started
* Flexible License - Distributed under the MIT License
* Clean IP - Every line of code was written by the CakePHP development team
* Best Practices - covering security, authentication, and session handling, among the many other features
* OO - Whether you are a seasoned object-oriented programmer or a beginner, you'll feel comfortable

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symfony | Web PHP Framework

dharmavir — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:28:21 -0600

Open-Source PHP Web Framework

Symfony is a full-stack framework, a library of cohesive classes written in PHP.

It provides an architecture, components and tools for developers to build complex web applications faster. Choosing symfony allows you to release your applications earlier, host and scale them without problem, and maintain them over time with no surprise.

Symfony is based on experience. It does not reinvent the wheel: it uses most of the best practices of web development and integrates some great third-party libraries.

Thousands of developers already trust symfony for their applications!

New users join the community every day, and that makes of symfony the most popular PHP framework around. A large community means easy-to-find support, user-contributed documentation, plugins, and free applications.

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jQuery 1.4 Released – The 14 Days of jQuery

dharmavir — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 19:16:39 -0600

jQuery 1.4 Released
In celebration of jQuery's 4th birthday, the jQuery team is pleased to release the latest major release of the jQuery JavaScript library! A lot of coding, testing, and documenting has gone into this release, and we're really quite proud of it.

I want to personally thank Brandon Aaron, Ben Alman, Louis-Rémi Babe, Ariel Flesler, Paul Irish, Robert Katić, Yehuda Katz, Dave Methvin, Justin Meyer, Karl Swedberg, and Aaron Quint who put a lot of work into fixing bugs and getting the release out the door.

Download
http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.4/jquery.min.js

Performance Overhaul of Popular Methods
Many of the most popular and commonly used jQuery methods have seen a significant rewrite in jQuery 1.4. When analyzing the code base we found that we were able to make some significant performance gains by comparing jQuery against itself: Seeing how many internal function calls were being made and to work to reduce the complexity of the code base.
In jQuery 1.4 we've significantly reduced the complexity of the most popular methods in jQuery.

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Vivu Inc. Better than being there! Web/Video Conferencing

dharmavir — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:35:33 -0600

ViVu is an emerging leader in creating innovative and easy-to-use solutions for live video participation.

ViVu is a cloud-hosted Video (video)-as-a-Service platform that makes it easy for businesses or groups to create events like training sessions and meetings.

Much like competing services WebEx and GoToMeeting, ViVu is designed to make multi-party video conferences or presentations easy and interactive. The system is designed so that if you're giving a presentation, you can take an audio or video question from someone who is tuning in.

ViVu lets you integrate things like Twitter (Twitter) messages into a presentation or event - or you can just monitor these updates on the administrative end and choose to keep them private. ViVu also has built-in analytical information that can be especially useful if you're running a webinar.

A single-license of ViVu is $49.99 a month, but it includes unlimited meetings with up to 25 participants. You can try the service for free for 30 days.

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HTTPS Becomes Default for Gmail

dharmavir — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:35:33 -0600

In an effort to increase security for Gmail users, in 2008 Google added the option to always use HTTP Secure (HTTPS) when accessing Gmail. However, this option was disabled by default; Google's reasoning for this was the fact that HTTPS makes your e-mail access slower.

Now, Google (Google) has decided that Internet connections for most of its users are fast and stable enough to turn this option on by default.

If you like, you can still turn the option off; simply choose "Don't always use https" from the Settings menu. Google will still use HTTPS on the login page, but will then switch back to unsecured connection, which could make the service a tiny bit faster. Of course, you should do this only while connected to a network that you fully trust.

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Google Docs Adds Support for File Storage

dharmavir — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:35:33 -0600

Ever wanted to use your Google account as a storage system? Now you can. Google has announced that it will be rolling out a new feature to Google Docs over the next few weeks: the ability to upload files of any type to store in Google Docs.

For years, services like Box.net (Box.net) and Dropbox (Dropbox) have offered the ability to store files in the cloud that can then be shared with other individuals or accessed easily from other computers. Google (Google) has offered Picasa Web Album users the ability to purchase additional storage space for photos, but now that space can be shared across Google Docs (Google Docs), Gmail (Gmail) and Picasa (Picasa).

Free users will get 1 GB of storage to store non-Google Docs files. Google's pricing is competitive - $0.25 a gigabyte per year (so $5 gets you 20 GB of storage space). The only middling detail is that files can't be larger than 250 MB. That means that Google Docs and the Google cloud will be perfectly fine for most users, but for individuals who need to frequently share or access files above 250 MB, this probably isn't going to be the solution for you.

Google is also going to allow users to search for shared or uploaded files using Google's document search, and common file types will be viewable in the Google Docs viewer.

This is a move that users have been asking for for quite some time - and with a competitive additional storage option, we're sure it will be popular. Even for competing storage and collaboration systems, this offers an opportunity to distinguish features and offerings that Google might not match.

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Post-Avatar Depression Hits Thousands of Fans

dharmavir — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:35:33 -0600

Avatar may be one of the biggest grossing movies of all time, but it's got a lot of fans feeling super blue (pun wholly intended).

CNN just came out with an extremely detailed report on the intense depression that Avatar is causing among a certain segment of fans, fans who psychotherapist Stacy Kaiser describes as "lonely to begin with. They're seeing Avatar, they're lonely people, a lot of them don't have a lot going on in their lives right now… The movie opened up a portal for them to express their depression."

These fans are turning to online forums - some of which have thousands of posts on how to deal with the cinema-induced sadness - to express their distress. Here's a few excerpts from the CNN report:

"Ever since I went to see ‘Avatar' I have been depressed. Watching the wonderful world of Pandora (Pandora) and all the Na'vi made me want to be one of them. I can't stop thinking about all the things that happened in the film and all of the tears and shivers I got from it.. I even contemplate suicide thinking that if I do it I will be rebirthed in a world similar to Pandora and the everything is the same as in ‘Avatar.' "
- Mike

"When I woke up this morning after watching Avatar for the first time yesterday, the world seemed … gray. It was like my whole life, everything I've done and worked for, lost its meaning…It just seems so … meaningless. I still don't really see any reason to keep … doing things at all. I live in a dying world."
- Ivar Hill, 17, Sweden

In short, people are depressed because their own lives don't measure up to the fantasy, a phenomenon Kaiser likens to the ennui one feels after seeing a romance movie if one happens to be unattached and dissatisfied.

CNN goes on to examine how the 3D technology only served to deepen the depression, as the realistic landscape of the film seems almost within reach, even though it doesn't actually exist.

Well, if that's the case, entertainment buffs better start popping the Prozacs as mainstream TV stations go 3D, and holograms are incorporated into standard award show fare.

Has anyone out there experienced post-Avatar depression?

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