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Nokia launches the first annual Open C contest for developing Symbian OS programs. The contest will end at August 31 2007. Click here to go to contest website.

PHP frameworks often are used by PHP developers when creating large systems. Frameworks have different functionality and implementation, not to mention different implementation usage. This article compares popular 10 frameworks.

Several major open source projects and their teams made a move toward upgrading to PHP 5. Many groups and companies are following them. The listed software projects have all agreed that effective February 5th, 2008, any new feature releases will have a minimum version requirement of at least PHP 5.2.0. Furthermore, the listed web hosts have agreed that effective February 5th, 2008, they will include PHP 5.2 (or a more recent version) in their service offer.

Andy Rutledge wrote about what question we should ask clients before designing a website. “Initial direct contact with clients during the discovery meeting is likely the most important moment in the life of a project”.

It is a great article, a must read article for web designers!

Adobe Flex Doc Team released the Flex 3 Charting Documentation.

The entire set of charting chapters is included here in one PDF because the organization has changed so much. I added a new chapter and consolidated some sections from other chapters.

New sections:
CHAPTER: Displaying Data and Labels
“Using data labels”
“Using per-item fills”
“Omitting days on a DateTimeAxis” (aka, work-week axis)

The web is packed with many content management systems (CMS). Sometimes it’s difficult to choose a good one because you haven’t tried any yet or maybe because you don’t have time to choose one. In any case, The CMS Matrix provides a great tool to compare major CMSs. A long list of tens if not hundreds of CMSs to compare.