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Former Pro Bowl receiver Andre Rison was given the option of paying $10,000 to get out of jail after spending almost a month locked up for failing to pay child support.
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Pierre-Alain Joye has three different posts to his blog about the releases of new versions (or new software) he's posted recently - a new release candidate for GD, the new Hidef extension in PECL, and a bug release for the zip extension.    The first post concerns the Zip extension release and which of the provided libraries you should use with your PHP installation (he recommends the latest PECL version over the included version). There's also a link to the new release - 1.8.6 The second post is an announcement about the publishing of the Hidef extension into the PECL library. It can be used to do a "one time declare" of constants in your application, working with a configuration file to only load them the first time the browser hits the site/application. Finally, in the newest of the posts, Pierre points out a brand new release candidate for GD 2.0.35 to two possible correct race conditions. You can download this new release here: tar.gz file, tar.bz2 file
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Today, Pierre-Alain Joye has fomally announced his "retirement" from working with the PEAR project as a lead developer. He's making a shift to work mainly towards other graphics/imaging work he's been developing and to continue work with his current extensions (and a few new ones on the way).   I spoke with him on some of the things that had lead up to making this decision and he mentioned it as a two-fold reason: one was some personal conflict between other PEAR developers and himself and the other an issue of time and interest in the project. He still wants to see it succeed, but just doesn't see the time in his life right now to do his part. Pierre will continue to work with the PECL extensions and on the PHP internals groups to help improve and develope them towards future versions. Some of the extensions he lists as the ones currently in his development are things like GD, xmlwriter, Zip (of course), and filter.   It is just a normal process, things and people change. I would have preferred a slower switch, as I was working on my leave (giving lead for many of my packages to other friends).   Pierre's PEAR work can be seen on this page of his blog and includes all of his PEAR and PECL work as well as PHP internals and Pimp/Cairo/GD development work.   You can also check out the decision in his own words over on his blog.
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As mentioned in this Secunia advisory today, rPath has release updates to several packages today including a few PHP ones and GD library updates.   rPath has issued an update for gd and multiple php packages. This fixes some vulnerabilities, where some have an unknown impact and others can potentially be exploited to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).   The update is marked as "moderately critical" so it's recommended that users update their installations as soon as possible. You can find out more information and get the links to download the packages from the original advisory post.
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In my last blog post, I mentioned the work on rubinius (then at a 0.7 release and now at 0.8) and JRuby.  I also promised I&#8217;d follow up on them.  Here&#8217;s what&#8217;s been going on so far.
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As expected, Microsoft on Friday issued the second release candidate of Windows Vista - the last public build before the next-generation operating system is released to manufacturing. As with the interim build before it, RC2 will be available to a limited number of CPP participants.
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Ilia Alshanetsky has posted about the release of the latest release candidate for the upcoming PHP version, 5.2 - PHP 5.2.0 RC3.   The third and possibly the final release candidate of PHP 5.2.0 is now available for download. The number of changes are fairly small, which is always good when nearing the final release, but there were 2 important fixes that need attention.   He notes that there are only really two major issues that need to be addressed before the final release and are included in this release candidate - a memory corruption issue and a problem in the session shutdown order.   You can download this release now: Bzipped file || Gzipped file.
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Harmony, which is incorporated in version 10.5 (and will also be in the next version of the RealRhapsody music service), allows the player to manage Digital Rights Management (DRM)-protected
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Update Slammed for touting unavailable but unlicensed content
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Novell plans to co-ordinate the release of Open Enterprise Server with the availability of the first service pack for SuSE Linux Enterprise Server 9. Customers will be able to deploy OES knowing
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Continuing the thread from yesterday. I got absolutely nowhere, some people suggested I use a smart playlist, missing the point that I'm a developer working on a podcatcher, not a user trying to use iTunes as a podcatcher. I'm sure it's an excellent way to subscribe to podcasts, but I have my own ideas how podcatchers should work, and I want to integrate them with other stuff I'm working on. Integrating with iTunes is proving to be quite a challenge, or maybe it's an art, we'll see.  As usual Mac users are superior sumbitches.  (Quoting the James Brolin character the first time we meet him in the third season finale of The West Wing.) Anyway, the search continues, I tried another more direct tack, and looked for glue for iTunes for UserLand, and bingo, there's a match, from 2001, a well-known Frontier programmer Sean Elfstrom, apparently converted glue for the Sonic SoundJam app that iTunes used to be, before Apple acquired it.  I installed the glue in the OPML Editor. It's daunting, for sure, but let's see what I can get working.
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On his blog today, Felix Geisendorfer has a release announcement posted for the latest version of Drake, and Drulap-CakePHP hybrid, has been released (version 1.0.1b).   This is just a quick announcement that a completely new Drake has has been released by Mariano Iglesias. For those of you who don't remember: I used to have some fun with integrating CakePHP with other PHP applications around such as drupal which in term created a project called Drake. I only released a couple versions and by looking at Mariano documentation for Drakes none of them were as easy to set up.   You can more details on the project from its homepage on Sypad.com as well as the full documentation and downloads.
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Apparently PHP5 RC3 is going to be the last release candidate. This is supposed to be coming out at the end of this week, so PHP5 will probably be released next month.  It's a bit like looking through a window into a candy store. The sweetener I most look forward to is the improved object assignment semantics.
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Wow!  Sun has hired Charles Nutter and Thomas Enebo to work on JRuby full time.  This is a pretty momentus event, and is already sending shockwaves around the Ruby world.
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Former Pro Bowl receiver Andre Rison was given the option of paying &#36;10,000 to get out of jail after spending almost a month locked up for failing to pay child support for more than two years.
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At the RSA Conference in Barcelona, Microsoft announced beta availability of Windows Rights Management Services (RMS) Service Pack 1. RMS, which drew concern after its 2003 debut, is designed to lock down sensitive documents such as e-mails from prying eyes.
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Since we launched at Web2  last week there has been a log of great feedback about Rojo .    First off is this *great* new Austin Power logo from Constantin Basturea   Smashing Baby!  On the subject of eye candy check out the CafePress store  that Chris  put together.  Very hip indeed!  I might get this for my girlfriend:  ... and this for my backpack:  We've been getting a lot of great feedback.  Thanks to everyone  for helping us out during our beta trial!  We even have our first Rojo external plugin :  "My room mate, Dylan Parker, has just released a plugin for FireFox named JustBlogIt. JustBlogIt is a Mozilla / Firefox extension that allows easy right-click posting to a weblog. It a ...