Monday, April 26, 2004

Microsoft Turns On Channel 9 - "Microsoft quietly went live with a new Web site called "Channel 9" that is designed to facilitate communication between Microsoft and its developer and customer constituencies. The site, which was built using Microsoft's ASP.Net Forums Web-based discussion technology, uses video clips, moblog technology, RSS feeds; wikis and forums to reach out to users." 10:48:29 PM

Xandros Opens Beta Test for Linux Desktop Deployment Tool. Xandros, having made moves into the enterprise desktop market with the release of its Linux business desktop, is following up with a business desktop management program. [eWEEK Technology News] 3:39:59 PM

phpmyhotels 1.0.0 Beta 2 released (phpMyHotels). Total project downloads to date: 3935 Project description: phpMyHotels is a plug-in based general purpose online reservation platform. It features booking services (plugged-in), content publishing, affiliate users managing. Implemented with PHP Fusebox 3 framework over an XML-based multi-tier architecture. [Download] [Release Notes] By jakuza@users.sourceforge.net (Jacopo Romei). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] Of interest because it is built using PHP Fusebox 3. 3:35:12 PM

VA - v6 - Binaries 6.0.0.10 released (Virtual Access Open Source Project). Total project downloads to date: 1145 Project description: The Virtual Access Foundation VA is a well-established win32 mail news and collaborative conferencing tool. We aim to convert it to platform-netural technologies. Modified BSD licence. [Download] [Release Notes] By nikkilocke@users.sourceforge.net (Nikki Locke). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 12:20:43 PM

SmartPeer 0.0.2. SmartPeer is a load balancing solution that runs from a single bootable CD-ROM (based on Linux/Morphix). it allows you to easily balance your Web traffic to distribute the load across multiple servers, effectively reducing bandwidth bottlenecks that could potentially overload a single server. It also gives you an easy way to keep your Web site running while individual Web servers are removed from production for maintenance, replacement, or due to failure. [freshmeat.net] 12:18:43 PM

Yahoo! Messenger - a new beta ia available that adds a lot of new features including synchronoization with Yahoo! address book.  Of note, the site is using PHP, which I haven't noticed before.   9:32:35 AM

SourceForge.net: Project Info - PHP Fusebox 4 9:28:17 AM

Automate Windows administration with WMI scripting - TechRepublic - "WMI is a technology built into Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003 that provides direct access to all of the managed resources on a computer. Those resources include hardware, such as hard disks, network adapters, video adapters, BIOS and CPUs, as well as Windows components, such as services, processes, and the registry. You can use WMI to obtain information about those resources or to make configuration changes." 9:27:42 AM

Increase XP NTFS performance - TechRepublic - "One of the mechanisms that can greatly affect a workstation's efficiency is the file system used by the operating system to save files. If the file system is inefficient, then no matter how fast a CPU or hard drive is, the system will waste time retrieving data. XP's default file system, NTFS, is more efficient than Windows 9x's old FAT system under normal circumstances, but you can do more to make it even faster." 9:26:13 AM

PEAR::OAI 0.4.1 released (oai-pear). Total project downloads to date: 151 Project description: A PHP class library for the Open Archives Initiative Protocol Metadata Harvesting. This library provides a Server (= Repository) as well as a Client (= Harvester) interface. This package is conformant to and makes use of PEAR classes. [Download] [Release Notes] By ordnas@users.sourceforge.net (Sandro Zic). [SourceForge.net: Project File Releases (Site-wide)] 9:19:03 AM

DBLIB 5.0.2. A PHP library to create WWW interfaces to databases. [freshmeat.net] 9:16:37 AM

PHP 5 Release Candidate 2 Released!. The second Release Candidate of PHP 5 is now available! This mostly bug fix release improves PHP 5's stability and irons out some of the remaining issues before PHP 5 can be deemed release quality. Note that it is still not recommended for mission-critical use but people are encouraged to start playing with it and report any problems. Key changes since Release Candidate 1 include: The Zend Engine I compatibility mode (zend.ze1_compatibility_mode) has been re-implemented to more accurately support PHP 4's object auto-clone behavior. All object-oriented extensions except for MySQLi have moved to studlyCaps. This includes SQLite, SOAP, Reflection API, Ming and others. Implementing an interfaces and/or abstract method with the wrong prototype is now a fatal error. For backwards compatibility, re-implementing regular methods with the wrong prototype will only result in an E_STRICT warning. Features as described in the Release Candidate 1 release announcement And lots more... For changes since Release Candidate 1, please consult the ChangeLog. [PHP: Hypertext Preprocessor] 9:01:58 AM

Compressing Web Content. Compressing Web content can produce a much faster site for users. Here's how to set it up and measure your success. [Linux Journal] 9:00:06 AM

123 Flash Chat 2.0. 123 Flash Chat Server is a Java chat server with a Flash-based client. It can integrate with a user database from a forum or portal. It's a fast, easy and affordable method of hosting and managing real-time chat rooms, not only on a Web site, but also in any public forum which allows embedded Flash. It allows you to organize chat events, collaborative work sessions, and online meetings reliably. [freshmeat.net] 8:49:16 AM