We are very happy to announce the latest release of the best and most popular framework for web development. The release marks a great milestone for CakePHP, where we involved more developers, implemented better code coverage (with analysis!), received more contributions from more community members, and ended up with a stable and feature rich 1.2 release candidate.

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When designing a UI we usually go right from a quick paper sketch to HTML/CSS. We skip the static Photoshop mockup.

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Google announced the Google AJAX Libraries API which exists to make Ajax applications that use popular frameworks such as Prototype, Script.aculo.us, jQuery, Dojo, and MooTools faster and easier for developers.

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Today I would like to present you very interesting project: Kohana Php - an open source web application framework for PHP.

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Framework - framework is a re-usable design for a software system (or subsystem). A software framework may include support programs, code libraries, a scripting language, or other software to help develop and glue together the different components of a software project. Various parts of the framework may be exposed through an API.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_framework

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I got the following error when trying to run “symfony propel-build-model“.

BUILD FAILED
Can’t load default task list
Total time: 0.0008 seconds
ERROR: symfony - Can’t load default task list

I’ve using PEAR install, symfony version is 1.0.13 running under PHP 5.2.5 (Windows XP), phing version is 2.3.0.

To solve this problem you should replace your Win32FileSystem.php in your php/pear/symfony/vendors/phing/system/io with Win32FileSystem.php from php/pear/phing/system/io, because this file is outdated in symfony phing version and contains invalid return value in resolveFile function.

Hope, this will help someone.

Smashingmagazine.com published great list of PDF magazines. PDF magazines are a great promotional tool used by companies and collectives. They are quick to put together, can be attached to emails, or made available as free downloads. Numerous visual arts publications from around the world are available for you to draw inspiration from. These magazines serve as excellent sources of both conceptual and visual design. Furthermore, it’s both interesting and important to know what other artists do — to explore new artistic style, learn new techniques and make new contacts.

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Yesterday, 17 of March 2008 Zend Framework 1.5 released.

Also Zend guys opened a new Zend Framework subscription support service - it includes consulting time for inquiries related to methodology, and a guaranteed per-incident response time for addressing issues related to Zend Framework project code.

More about support service you can find here.

The most interesting things about new release:

1. It will be included in new Ubuntu version that will be released in April 2008.
2. It now supports OpenID and Microsoft’s InfoCard.

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Many people used flag icons from famfamfam.com. But maximum icons size is 16 x 16.

Now you can use larger icon variants - 24×24, 32×32, 48×4.

You can download it from here (968 Kb).

Adobe team finished their work and release Adobe Flex 3 and Air 1.0 today.

Also site with open source projects from Adobe http://opensource.adobe.com/

My warmest congratulations to all Flex developers