The Zend Framework community has released the 0.2.0 Preview Release. This release contains many important enhancements and new features:
* New MVC implementation
* New HTTP request and response objects make it easy to automate unit testing for web apps without a web server, and also make it possible to use MVC for command-line and PHP-GTK application development
* Enhanced pure PHP Lucene-compatible search engine component
* New Mysqli DB adapter
* New JSON server
* New REST client and server
* New XmlRpc client and server
* New Acl component
* New Session component
* New Web Services clients for Delicious and Audioscrobbler
* New Registry component
* Significant improvements to many other components
37signals 的一本书－－ "Getting Real" 现在已经可以免费在线阅读了，当然你也可以购买书本。37signals 这个团队所创建的 RoR 风靡全球，相信这本书也是不错的，有时间的话拜读一下。
Want to build a successful web app? Then it's time to Get Real. Getting Real is a smaller, faster, better way to build software.
- Getting Real is about skipping all the stuff that represents real (charts, graphs, boxes, arrows, schematics, wireframes, etc.) and actually building the real thing.
- Getting real is less. Less mass, less software, less features, less paperwork, less of everything that's not essential (and most of what you think is essential actually isn't).
- Getting Real is staying small and being agile.
- Getting Real starts with the interface, the real screens that people are going to use. It begins with what the customer actually experiences and builds backwards from there. This lets you get the interface right before you get the software wrong.
- Getting Real is about iterations and lowering the cost of change. Getting Real is all about launching, tweaking, and constantly improving which makes it a perfect approach for web-based software.
- Getting Real delivers just what customers need and eliminates anything they don't.
上周五，Matthieu 给我带来了新的笔记本电脑－－MacBook Pro 15'，不再是法国键盘了，只是屏幕比之前的小了一些。CPU 是 2G Hz 的 Intel Core Duo，内存是 1G DDR2 (667 MHz)，显卡是 ATI Mobility Radeon X1600，256MB GDDR3 显存，另外还有 400 Mb/s 的 FireWire 火线接口及 USB 2.0 接口，内置摄像头。最酷的是带有一个 Apple Remote（遥控器），可以直接遥控笔记本播放音乐、DVD 等等，这下看片爽了 
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JavaScript Object Notation for Ajax Web services
While Web services continue to be deployed on many corporate applications, a lot of thought continues to go into design issues ranging from reusability to security. Yet what is almost an afterthought is the actual payload structured as XML. After all, it's XML which provides Web services their platform/language independence, but as it turns out, there are certain Web service scenarios in which better payload alternatives can be used, one of them being JavaScript Object Notation (JSON), an approach which has recently grown in popularity for Web service clients in the form of a browser. [....]
via: NorthClick:
We have implemented Zend_Search into our content management system “Click and Change” and we would like to share our experiences with the developers’ community. For this purpose, we decided to publish the complete source code and it’s documentation. [....]
