Open source roundup
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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