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nodejs vs io.js – http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/14/io_dot_js_version_1_0/ Fastclick: https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick HHVM – http://hhvm.com/blog/8405/coming-soon-in-hhvm async mysql support HHVM – XHP v2 https://github.com/facebook/xhp-lib      

Very brief update re: my earlier absence and a couple thoughts on the Sunshine PHP conference. Rasmus’ keynote notes Paul Jones ADR post Sunshine PHP 2015  

https://placeit.net – Place your website in stock photos with ease http://www.orm-designer.com – Create a visual model and generate code for popular ORM tools (Doctrine, Hibernate, Propel). http://ormcheatsheet.com – Quick overview of various ORM configs for popular PHP frameworks. http://ticonf.org/#nyc_location – Heading to the Titanium conference May 9-11 https://metric.io/blog/2014/04/simple-client-side-error-logging

Upcoming Upcoming interview with former Twitpiccer about scaling service up to billions of requests – get your questions in ASAP. Sass 3.3 released http://blog.sass-lang.com/posts/184094-sass-33-is-released Free python screencasts from neckbeard republic https://www.neckbeardrepublic.com/ New free font : Clear Sans https://01.org/clear-sans   PHP/HipHop/HHVM/Hack/Zephir/etc Lots of movement happening in the PHP world recently, and I barely scratch the surface … Continue reading Episode 120: Quick update, rant about PHP, upcoming interview

I had a chance to chat with Toran Billups about EmberJS, PyTenn and other stuff.  Take a listen

C# may get the safe navigation operator soon! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jerrynixon/archive/2014/02/26/at-last-c-is-getting-sometimes-called-the-safe-navigation-operator.aspx Bing Code Search for Visual Studio http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2014/02/17/introducing-bing-code-search-for-c.aspx PHP Object Injection in WordPress http://vagosec.org/2013/09/wordpress-php-object-injection/ Dates are hard – Ben Ramsey http://benramsey.com/blog/2014/02/dates-are-hard/wdr_118

Intel’s XDK cross platform mobile development: http://xdk-software.intel.com Try out ElasticSearch in a ‘fiddle-like’ environment: https://www.found.no/play/ NightwatchJS browser test: http://nightwatchjs.org Security headers you should know about: http://ibuildings.nl/blog/2013/03/4-http-security-headers-you-should-always-be-using

Puppet vs Chef vs Ansible vs Salt post and discussion http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/review-puppet-vs-chef-vs-ansible-vs-salt-231308 http://www.alpacajs.org Zurb Foundation 5 released discussion Yii framework 2.0 alpha DotNetFiddle – Fiddle with C# from your browser    

PHP BDD Framework: https://github.com/danielstjules/pho Comparison chart of front-end CSS frameworks: http://usablica.github.io/front-end-frameworks/compare.html PHP VCR: http://php-vcr.github.io reddit discussion Protect yourself with different terminal colors based on what server you’re connecting to!    

Netbeans 7.4 is out. HTML5 development for Android and iOS devices HTML5 development in Java EE and PHP applications Editing support for Knockout and AngularJS frameworks fontello – icon fonts generator effekt.css timing attacks via html5

The PHP.net website was compromised, but we don't yet know what the exploit was.  No actual code or binaries were affected; the site was just serving up javascript malware. Healtcare.gov is still a mess, but are there lessons we can learn about project management from it?  Will clients have any new regard for their own project failures in light of the healthcare.gov debacle? Drawingboard.js will let you easily add a canvas-based drawing element to your sites (can you find the easter egg?) Is flexbox CSS in your future?  Are you already using it?  Checkout some examples of flexbox in action designed to make your front-end life considerably easier.

I think I'm missing something about apigility.org - help me figure it out.  Facebook's team fixes CSRF exploit in 2 hours.  Is Rails' CookieStore broken by default, or working just fine?  KnockoutJS 3 was released - upgrade/change notes are here for your reading pleasure.

So... this is the 8 year anniversary of webdevradio - what's changed in the last 8 years?  Lots!  What's the same?  Lots!  I go in to a bit more detail than that... :) Some recent news as well... Rails 4 released PHP 5.5 released Modern.IE - downloadable IE VMs from MS Tech Interview Is Dead Beta access to appliedto.com

OK, in no particular order: RubyFlux (article I originally found) TechEmpower round 5 Where is .NET headed? Web Components: Polymer Project and X-Tags LaraCasts  

Heading off to Russia for a bit - if there's anything you think I should see when I'm there, let me know :) Saw a good presentation on TypeScript recently, which has piqued my interest - hopefully it piques yours as well.   This blog post from techempower shows the results on testing more than two dozen web framework/configurations - where's your favorite?  Finally, intro.js gives you a quick way to add guided tours to your websites - clean and simple. Also, Jetbrains has an 'earth day' sale this week - get up to 50% off an editor of your choice.  And Zend Studio 10 was recently released and is also 50% off its normal price.