PHPArch Free 1st Webcast – Codeworks 2009 – Video

PHPArchitect released the video for the 1st free webcast – New SPL Features in PHP 5.3 and the link is bellow so you can check it out.

http://mtadata.s3.amazonaws.com/webcasts/20090623-spl.wmv

The video is pretty good and you will be able to check out some good benchmarks about the new SPL library from PHP 5.

The next webcast will be this next Friday, July 10th, so do your registration for the newcast with Sumit Chawla talking about Connecting PHP to Microsoft Technologies.

The new iGoogle

Google decided to do some changes yesterday and now iGoogle have come with a new design and some very cool features.

The first thing you will notice are the tabs that are now on the left side. If you have a lot a tabs, this will definetly help and now you can see a snipet of the tabs contents.

All boxes and elements on the iGoogle are now with a more web 2.0ish interface and finally with a font that is much more readble.

The coolest feature of the new iGoogle is the simple fact that it’s now working as a browser. If you click any element inside the tab, it will open a full page with the element details or more functionality. Take the Gmail for instance, if you click on it’s elements you will see a snipet of your inbox with full functionality.

So far the down part of this is that the new iGoogle do not have a min-width and when you are trying to see it from an iPhone it shows kind of odd at the start page.

Anyway is a great change and I would give a 4 donuts on this one.

Zend Framework 1.6 + Firebug + FirePHP = Cool Debug

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I usually do not post a ping back, but this is so well explained that it’s worthed to take a look at. Christoph Dorn has just written a new post in his blog explaining a very cool debug feature from the new Zend Framework.

Try it Out!

You may be used to debugging your ZF code using Zend_Debug::dump() or even var_dump(). What do you have to loose trying these new components? They offer the big advantage of not dumping your debug data to the page. They allow you to debug applications with intricate designs as well as AJAX request that require clean JSON or XML responses.

Check it out: Christoph Dorn Blog