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PHP extension for Cairo graphics library
Thanks to tip off from Jared “Ren” Williams (is that you? – any link?) here – the Cairo wrapper extension by Hartmut Holzgraefe – nice demo.
Cairo is the “next generation” vector graphics library for Linux and very cool to have it available in PHP. Also cool about the extension was created using PEAR::CodeGen_PECL, which Hartmut describes here: look Mum – no C! (well almost).
This raises the question of whether it’s time to depreciate GD? As far as I’m aware, it and the PCRE extension are the two main problem children preventing PHP from being thread safe. It may be possible to replace PCRE and preserve backwards compability, with ICU regexes, which claim to based on Perl’s regular expressions. Dropping GD would be much more painful but with Cairo and the imagick extension, there might be enough to keep everyone happy. This is in the interest of running PHP under Apache mpm. Would be interested to hear thoughts / opinions on how realistic that is?
Side note: my dumb view of the difference between GD and imagemagick is the former is more for image creation while …
Sep 4, 2006 News Wire
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Programmed personal homepages over the last 20 years
With the plenitude of services being launched to fully customize the page displayed by your browser when you first launch it, this insightful look back at the history of such services may contain some valuable lessons.
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Mozilla Firefox 2 Beta 2 Release Notes
Firefox 2.0 Beta 2 is out. Time to start compatibility-testing your sites and reporting any bugs that may affect you.
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Mephisto Immortus Released
Version 0.6 of the Mephisto Blogging and Content Management System has been released. The new version includes revamped asset management and search features. Mephisto is written for Ruby on Rails (specifically, Edge Rails).
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British Airways Flies With Google Earth
British Airways integrates its online ticket sales with Google Earth (no, not Google Maps—Google Earth!).
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Code freeze in preparation of Drupal 5.0.0
Venerable PHP CMS Drupal is gearing up for a major new release. The final release of Drupal 5.0.0 is at least two months away by current estimates, but development of new features is now frozen. It might be worth taking a fresh look at this powerful tool.
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