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framework, mvc, PHP, release, webdevelopment, zendframeworkI am pleased to announce the release of Zend Framework 1.0.2, now available for download on the framework website.

New database adapter for PDO_IBM
Custom database profiler support
New Google Base support with Zend_Gdata_Gbase
Added CAPTCHA support to Zend Gdata
Improved PDF component documentation
Enhanced search performance
More flexible language translation facilities
Additional UTF-8 support for validation
Documentation [...]

Opera Mini 4
Opera has given us 10 reasons to love Opera Mini 4 which includes:

Surf the Web in style
“X marks the spot” — start at the right place
Stay at the right place
A virtual mouse
Power scrolling
Fast and cheap browsing
Good old Small Screen Rendering
Quick access to key functionality with the context menu
Web designers go wild

iPhone Browser Capabilities [...]

web20 online-tools spreadsheet Google began accepting sign-ups to participate in a limited public beta test earlier this month (check Google labs for link). Basically it’s not Excel killer, there are no PivotTables, there’s no charting, and apart from sorting, you can’t do much with text. But there’s a lot more functionality than you might expect. [...]

ajax dojo framework
Dojo is the Open Source JavaScript toolkit that helps you build serious applications in less time. It fills in the gaps where JavaScript and browsers don’t go quite far enough, and gives you powerful, portable, lightweight, and tested tools for constructing dynamic interfaces. Dojo lets you prototype interactive widgets quickly, animate transitions, [...]

seo experiments google trends fun
Experimenting with Google Trends (http://www.google.com/trends), I decided to check popular web-related programming languages/technologies popularity (Try it yourself).
Results are rather predictable:

Java — probably biased by coffee lovers
PHP — most natural result
.NET, ASP, C# — no comments
Perl, Python, Ruby — even jewelry and zoological sites did not helped :(