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Matthew Weier O'Phinney has a recent post to his blog giving a quick introduction to the Zend_Application component of the Zend Framework and how it can be used to create custom resources.

On the Proof Group's blog there's a recent post about a "gotcha" Andy Chase found when using the Drush command line tool for Drupal installations and a system that has MAMP installed.

Fabien Potencier has written up a post detailing a PEAR channel server manager he's developed, Pirum.

Linux Magazine: "Zypper is a command line tool for package management, it's based on ZYpp, aka libzypp.

The WikiPedia entry for Zypp says: "Unlike other common package managers, it provides a powerful satisfiability solver to compute package dependencies and a convenient package management API."

RubyPulse is a screencast site that publishes regular videos about different Ruby libraries.

It's a month old so far and German Ruby developer Alex Peuchert has put out 9 episodes already.

TuxArena: " recordMyDesktop is a command-line tool which allows to record your entire Linux desktop and save it as a Theora Ogg video.

It has GTK and Qt frontends too, and in Ubuntu gtk-recordmydesktop is available in the repositories."

On the IBM developerWorks site today they've published a new tutorial, the start of a series, from Vikram Vaswani looking at the Agavi framework.

On Madarco's DevBlog there's a new post looking at using the new Zend_Tool component of the Zend Framework from inside of the Eclipse IDE.

On his blog today Sameer Borate has posted a quick tutorial on how to use a PEAR package to do search and replace on your files from inside of PHP.

Last week, the latest version of Ruby packaging library/tool, RubyGems, was released. Version 1.3.2 not only has a bunch of bug fixes (including supporting https URLs for gem sources) and improvements, but a number of new features.