Blogger Beta Gets OpenID Support

Friday, November 30th, 2007

Google has announced that Blogger beta (or Blogger in Draft, as they call it) now supports OpenID commenting. Until now, you could comment on Blogger blogs as an anonymous user or with your Blogger identity; now you can also comment using your OpenID identity. Let’s add that to our list ...

Zumobi Plans To Go Beta On December 14th

Sunday, November 25th, 2007

Zumobi is getting set to launch its beta version on December 14th. Aiming to make the mobile web experience more pleasant, Zumobi uses a system of “tiles” to give you a visual representation of the sites you want to visit.  The information is pushed to your phone so when you click ...

Firefox 3 Beta 1 Is Out

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

The development of Firefox 3 has been slowing to a crawl, with many pre-beta releases not entirely satisfying everyone’s curiosity. Now - finally - Firefox 3 Beta 1 is available, which should mean that we can expect the final Firefox 3 within a month or two, as this has been ...

TestFreaks’ Private Beta Lacks Personality

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

TestFreaks is a consumer product review site. We heard about it several months back when it wanted to get some alpha testers to produce content for the site, and it had little else to show for itself. Launched by the same team behind PriceRunner, TestFreaks still isn’t ...

Get Your Pocket PHP Reference and Help Hurricane Relief Zend Studio 5.0 Beta available!

Friday, March 17th, 2006

php|architect has announced the publication of php|architect's Pocket PHP Reference, a handy guide to every function in PHP, inclusive of syntax, extension and description. It's a perfect companion for all your coding work, perfect for looking up function syntax in a pinch It's been a while since I personally contributed code ...

Zend Studio 5.0 Beta available!

Monday, September 12th, 2005

It's been a while since I personally contributed code to this project, but a bunch of my most-wanted features are now in there, most notably multilevel code completion and native web services support. Multilevel code completion means that almost always you'd get code completion for objects, even if they're return values ...

PHP 5.1 Beta 3 Available

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

PHP 5.1 Beta 3 is now available! If all goes well, this beta release will be followed by a release candidate within a couple of weeks. Some of the key improvements of PHP 5.1 include: PDO (PHP Data Objects) - A new native database abstraction layer providing performance, ease-of-use, and ...