After a quiet holiday season, the PEAR community has started rumbling again. Digg gave PEAR a plug , new versions of Mail , Services_Facebook , System_Daemon , and html_Template_IT were released, the number of bugs reported dropped to less than one per package for a brief time, and two promising new proposals in PEPr arrived.
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PEAR in March 2010 – Official Blog of the PEAR Group/PEAR President
Brandon Savage approached me with an interesting issue regarding ZF bootstrap resources, and accessing them in your action controllers. Basically, he’d like to see any resource initialized by the bootstrap immediately available as simply a public member of his action controller. So, for instance, if you were using the “DB” resource in your application, your controller could access it via $this-> db
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A Simple Resource Injector for ZF Action Controllers – Matthew Weier O’Phinney
From findingada.com : Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging (videologging, podcasting, comic drawing etc.!) to draw attention to the achievements of women in technology and science. Women’s contributions often go unacknowledged, their innovations seldom mentioned, their faces rarely recognised. We want you to tell the world about these unsung heroines, whatever they do
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Ada Lovelace Day 2010 is March 24th! – Maggie Nelson
You can create a disk image in the Enterprise, Business, and Ultimate versions of Windows Vista, but if you use Vista Home Premium, you need a third-party app to image a disk or partition. I was delighted to find a disk-imaging component added to the Backup and Restore applet in the Home Premium version of Windows 7.
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Free backup utility outshines Windows 7′s built-in disk imager
Could the Toyota Innova’s diesel engine power the Corolla Altis diesel? In December last year, we attended the launch of the refreshed Toyota Land Cruiser Prado diesel . During a conference that followed immediately after, Deputy Managing Director (Marketing) of Toyota Kirloskar Motors, Mr.Sandeep Singh said the company was considering the launch of the Corolla Altis diesel.
Webmaster Level: Intermediate A multilingual website is any website that offers content in more than one language. Examples of multilingual websites might include a Canadian business with an English and a French version of its site, or a blog on Latin American soccer available in both Spanish and Portuguese.
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Working with multilingual websites
Swift Sport Rock am Ring has a good reason to be here Suzuki will introduce a special edition of the Swift Sport dubbed “Swift Sport Rock am Ring.” Some of you may ask why, and there’s a good reason (unlike manufacturers unveiling special editions to celebrate a victory at a local award ceremony) This model will mark the 25th anniversary of the music festival sponsored by the Japanese manufacturer scheduled to take place at the Nurburgring race track in June. The Suzuki Swift Sport Rock am Ring is distinguished by logos, a new entertainment system that comprises of a Clarion Navigation system, featuring a 6.9 inch color display, a 30 Gb hard drive for storing music, multiple power speakers and an iPod auxiliary adapter. You can buy your Rock am Ring in three shades – Whit Pearl Metallic, Cosmic Black Pearl Metallic and Supreme Red Pearl Metallic
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Suzuki Swift Sport Rock am Ring in Europe
If you are a freelance disc jockey, having a presentable and professional looking business card combined with your extraordinary talent and charm as DJ is your best tool to attracting business or clients. Your DJ business card should reflect the type of parties, events and crowd that you are catering to, For example if you specialize in rock music, then a funky business cards with lots of grunge and images related to rock music should be the main elements of your card.
The “Laser Timing” from TokyoFlash is a wristwatch concept that tells time as mysteriously as it looks. Featuring the mysterious wristwatch flashes a laser beam through a small window to reflect the time on a flat surface
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Laser Timing is a mysterious wristwatch with complementing looks
It’s Friday, and inbox zero claims are popping up all over the place as we wind down the week and try to get ourselves to believe that we really do control our email and not the other way around. What is “inbox zero,” why is it such a coveted status and is it realistic in today’s email-focused world
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Inbox Zero: Don’t Believe the Hype
Inspired by nature, the Redo Sudio has come up with a sleek and smart bathroom suite that combines a basin, shower and toilet into a single unit to add extra space to the bathroom. Entitled the “Mountainous Brook,” the suite is finished in plastic, curved to resemble mountains and water streams. The shower, which is the main component in the entire unit, spreads like a spring with two streams of water, one forming the shelf and basin and the other the toilet bowl.
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Mountainous Brook creates natural atmosphere within the bathroom
If you are looking to increase your collection of hand-cranked music boxes, the “Foradacaixa Hand Crank Music Box” with its beautiful illustrated package and unique tunes may turn out to be a cool addition to the accumulation. Encasing a metal handle within a paper box, the mini music box comes loaded a number of classical tunes, including “Are You Lonesome Tonight,” La Vie en Rose,” “Valser d’Amelie,” “My Way” and so on.
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Foradacaixa Hand Crank Music Box, old way to play new music
Portable gadgets often run short of energy on the go, becoming more of a bane than a boon for the user. Offering an alternative to your bulky chargers, the “Universal Gadget Wrist Charger” is a smart portable device that can be worn around the wrist like a watch or a bracelet to juice up your gadgets anytime, anywhere. Packing a 1500 mAh lithium-ion battery, the wrist charger is compatible with a range of mobile devices including the iPhone, Nokia, LG, Motorola, HTC, Dopod, Samsung and Sony Ericsson, together with portable gaming consoles such as the PSP, NDS Lite and Nintendo DSi.
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Universal Wrist Charger juices up your gadgets on the go
The Wuling CN100 van could be sold in India by 2012 by General Motors We’ve shown you a set of disguised Wuling CN100 test mules evaluated in cold weather a few months back. Here are undisguised pictures of the vehicle for the first time.
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Spied – Undisguised Wuling CV for India
The last SabreDAV announcement I made here was 1.0.4, which happened in January. Just today I’ve released 1.0.9, so I figured it’s time for a small update. A public demo site I’ve bought the sabredav.org domain, and placed a live demo on it for people to try out
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SabreDAV 1.0.9 released & CalDAV news – Evert Pot
The 2012 BMW 3 Series will be longer, albeit weighing the same The next generation BMW 3 Series is at least two years away and BMW is planning to make it look aggressive to maintain uniqueness. The images released bare a close resemblance to the CS concept unveiled a couple of years ago. Sure, the CS concept will donate many of its styling elements to the forthcoming BMWs, but the next 3, we believe, will be even more radical and revolutionary
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2012 BMW 3 Series pictures leaked?
Many books have been written about guerilla marketing, but few small business owners can define it. The same way a guerilla uses creativity to win a war, the small business owner can use ingenious and original methods to triumph over the competition. Here are a few ways you can use guerilla marketing to find success in small business
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Guerilla Marketing for the Small Business Owner
Anyone using SimpleDNSd is strongly encouraged to update to latest SVN (you will have to erase the php-5.3.1 directory and recompile php to get it patched correctly). The current SVN version will most likely go release candidate and be released later. Current SVN release includes many fixes and improvements, including for SimpleDNSd, the DNS daemon written in PHP
Heads up, Aussies! In April and May, I’m hitting the road to teach JavaScript workshops all around Australia, and I’d love to see some of the SitePoint crowd there when I do! In case you don’t know me, I’m the co-author of Simply JavaScript and host of the SitePoint Podcast . I also help write the SitePoint Tech Times newsletter , and manage the motley crew of developers who put SitePoint together
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Aussies: Learn JavaScript with Kevin Yank in April/May
(Credit: Google) There’s something to be said for instant gratification, and if you’re the sort who wants to know where you are without pausing to open a map app, one of the handful of changes to Google Maps for Android (version 4.1) has your name on it. To turn your wallpaper into a live, real-time map that tracks your location, press and hold the home screen, choose Wallpaper, then pick Maps from the Live Wallpaper folder. Before setting the wallpaper, you’ll be able to choose satellite, terrain, or line map mode and whether you want to show traffic
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Make Google Maps your live Android wallpaper