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PHP 5.0.0 Beta 2 released. PHP 5.0.0 Beta 2 has been released. This is the first feature complete version of PHP 5, and we recommend for PHP users to try it. PHP 5 is still not ready for production use! Some of the more major changes include: PHP 5 features the Zend Engine 2. XML support has been completely redone in PHP 5, all extensions are now focused around the excellent libxml2 library (http://www.xmlsoft.org/). SQLite has been bundled with PHP. For more information on SQLite, please visit their website. A new SimpleXML extension for easily accessing and manipulating XML as PHP objects. It can also interface with the DOM extension and vice-versa. Streams have been greatly improved, including the ability to access low-level socket operations on streams. There have been many changes since Beta 1, some of them documented in the NEWS file and most language changes are documented in ZEND_CHANGES [PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor] 5:10:08 PM  comment []
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FSF General Counsel Eben Moglen on Cisco and SCO. I had the opportunity to speak this morning with Eben Moglen, General Counsel for the Free Software Foundation. Actually, I was following up on a post made yesterday by FSF GPL Compliance Engineer David Turner on the LKML (Linux Kernel Mailing List) about a GPL non-compliance issue with Cisco/Linksys being in the hands of lawyers. That's what led to our conversation. Professor Moglen had a few words to share with us not only on that issue, but on SCO's most recent public attack on the GPL. [NewsForge] 5:04:24 PM comment []
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Journals via RSS. Anna writes:
"Another idea that occurred to me this evening is publication through subscription RSS feeds (or even open-access models). For instance, the PLoS Biology journal recently released to the world could announce new articles or issues by making them available through an RSS feed, instead of or in addition to their current method of email announcements. Similarly, if I have an online subscription to Serials Review, I could get articles sent to me through some sort of secure RSS feed available only to subscribers. This method could come in handy for those publications that post articles online before they are published in the print editions, which mainly occurs in the sciences"
RSS minds think alike!! We were talking about this exact topic this morning during my presentation at Maryland SLA Technology Day. I mentioned that one feature that I would love to see by the publishers of professional journals (like Haworthwould be to provide the table of contents for each of their journals via RSS. Now, I understand that they couldn't (aka wouldn't) provide full text articles, but the TOC would be just as fine for me.
Full text is not fully out of the question, however. As Anna mentions, she would like articles for content that she pays for via RSS. I don't see why the publisher would have issues with that request. Also, how about vendors providing RSS Feeds for new content via customizes searches on their database... There you go. Not just TOC to journals, but new titles from publishers, new additions to library catalogs, new lessons from CALI. All of this would be very useful and will happen. 10:36:00 AM comment []
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