Bloggers do it for the comments
I just found out today that I won a contest put on by Blogging Expertise here in Boise to come up with a witty saying for a T-shirt about blogging. The title of this post is my winning entry. Here are the relevant links:
Many thanks to Sarah Lewis and Blogging Expertise for running the contest. I can’t wait to walk around Boise wearing my shirt… and maybe a few of the others too.
Sphere: Related ContentBelated birth announcement
It’s been a crazy week so far. Our son Brian was born Monday evening via emergency C-section and has been in the NICU at St. Luke’s in Boise ever since. He’s intubated now and on a ventilator because of serious breathing problems, but he’s expected to be fine in a few days. It’s nerve-wracking and frustrating to say the least, but we’re hanging in there.
There probably won’t be much activity here on Alimadzi for a while, but you can follow little Brian’s progress on our new personal blog: PatrickAndKarin.com. Thanks in advance for your prayers and encouragement.
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It’s been a great week in the world of open source. Here are some highlights for you.
Zend Framework 1.0
The excellent Zend Framework project just reached their 1.0 milestone release and got a lot of good press. Personally I have a lot of hope for this project and plan to use it extensively in the near future. If it’s good enough for IBM…
jQuery gets 800% faster
This is almost too much to believe, but John Resig has the benchmarks to prove it. The 1.1.3 release of jQuery is 800% faster than 1.1.2 for many common operations. Upgrading is a no-brainer, but make sure you get the latest point release (1.1.3.1 as of this writing).
Firefox releases final alpha of 3.0
Mozilla just sent Firefox 3.0 alpha 6 out to the masses and it looks like a good one. Look for the first beta release around the end of the month. The best browser on Earth just keeps getting better.
Go PHP 5
The long overdue movement starts to gain some momentum with pledges from Drupal and phpMyAdmin. For those who don’t know, PHP 5 is not offered by many Web hosts and a lot of open source projects continue to maintain backward compatibility with PHP 4 for that reason. The Go PHP 5 movement is looking to change that in one fell swoop. Excellent idea. I just hope they can pull it off before PHP 6 is released. I also hope to see MediaWiki and WordPress get on board with this.
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