News Wire: Zend Framework is here
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The “official” PHP web development framework nears its first release.
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The codename for Visual Basic 10, that’s what! Microsoft is still working to finalize the upcoming VB 9 release, but it has developed a wishlist for VB 10, which will return to the language’s dynamic roots by bringing it to the Dynamic Language Runtime.
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The next major release of GWT is almost ready for release. It features smaller script sizes, quicker startup times, a handful of powerful, new widgets, and the ImageBundle, which combines multiple images into a single file to boost performance.
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In an exclusive podcast interview, Dojo announces that its Dojo Offline library for supporting offline storage in browser-based web applications has already been updated to use the just-announced Google Gears offline storage engine by default.
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In a deal worth US$280m, US media giant CBS has acquired the music-based social networking site Last.fm.
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There’s some serious design inspiration to be found in this list of sites, books, and get-off-your-butt activities. (thanks jamesbooker)
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Rapid-fire screenshot reviews of client-side image galleries and related scripts. (thanks jamesbooker)
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WHAT-WG member Lachlan Hunt summarizes (at great length) the current situation in the W3C HTML Working Group.
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Eclipsed by the amazing “Street View”, Google simultaneously launched a developer preview of its new Mapplets API. The API enables mashups and overlays to integrate directly into the Google Maps site, so users can mix and match their favourites.
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