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The company I’m working for, released 2 free issues of it’s magazine called iT Plus . you can download PDF copies from iTPlusOnline.com. this magazine is targeting the IT communities .. specially the Egyptian one. btw, don’t expect to see any code there. it got some interesting articles about computer networks related stuff and some technologies that I didn’t hear about before. so if you like knowing about this things, so get a copy and enjoy.

I don’t know if they are planning to start writing about more in-depth and programming related articles in the coming issues or what. anyway, they are waiting any feedback that helps get the magazine better for you. leave your comment on the magazines website if you have something to say.

Thomas Weidner, the leader of ZF’s i18n (internationalization) team did a presentation about the i18n components provided by ZF and how to use them with examples.

I have downloaded Safari 3 for Windows. finally, I will see how my work look on that browser. I’m not sure if it will be exactly the same like a Safari for Mac, but it’s better than nothing.

so .. finally I will be able to say “I tested it on Safari” :)

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Update: ok, it’s a real beta thing. bugs everywhere.

Through the last week, I have been following what’s happening in php|tek 2007: Chicago. many expert php developers have been there. you can read the conference’s summary written by Cal Evans. also, listen to the Pro::PHP Newscast (May 31, 2007) (ps: there were an open bar, so don’t be surprised of the funny things they say ;-) )

There was session titled “PHP6 and Unicode” by Andrie Zmievski. an interesting thing to be mentioned is that in PHP6 the Unicode support will be also for Identifiers. didn’t get it ? .. you will be able to write something like that :

class إنسان {
function إجرى ‎ ( ) ‎  { … }
}

$‎ قائمة = array();
$‎ قائمة‎ ['احمد'] = new إنسان();

yea, it’s cool, but please, don’t use this feature in your new [PHP6] projects.

days ago while I was on #phpc asking the guys/gals there about what they think about this feature, Ben Ramsey told me about a funny joke Sara Golemon said. “she wondered if we could use the unicode’s snowman character (U+2603) as a namespace separator in PHP6″ . I didn’t get it at the first time as I didn’t know how this character looks. after googling it, I got why this was funny :-) .

It’s official now. Google acquired FeedBurner.