Thursday, October 30, 2003

Apple releases source code for Darwin 7.0. SANTA CLARA, Calif. -- In sync with the release of Apple's latest and greatest operating system, Panther (aka Mac OS 10.3), the Cupertino, Calif.-based company has released the source code of Darwin 7.0. The code became available at 8 p.m. Oct. 24, and various versions are now available for free download at Opensource.Apple.com. [NewsForge] 7:32:27 PM

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

Large Scale Collaborative Editing Large Scale Collaborative Editing Posted by CmdrTaco on Thursday October 30, @02:39PM from the now-this-is-gettign-interesting dept. An anonymous reader writes "3D17.org is a website designed to allow large-scale collaborative document editing. Unlike tools like Wiki, any changes made to a 3D17 document must go-through a moderation-like voting process to see which should be applied to the document. Possible applications include allowing a large community to draft letters, emails, and faxes in a way that everyone can contribute. 3D17 even eats its own dogfood - its FAQ can be user-modified just like any other document."  [Slashdot] 5:07:00 PM