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KDE.News: "The KOffice team, developers, students, packagers and bug reporters have prepared the final Alpha release of KOffice 2.0: KOffice 2.0 Alpha 10.

KOffice will enter feature freeze in two weeks, so the next release will be the first Beta."

Good Gear Guide: "Google dropped Bluetooth and the GTalkService instant messaging APIs (application program interfaces) from the set of tools for the first version of the mobile phone OS, Android 1.0, according to the Android Developers Blog."

Komandeering Developers Everywhere: "You also have to find some patriotic sunglasses and a religious picture that lights up."

openSUSE news: "What’s Hack Week? Hack Week is a chance for Novell’s developers to work on Innovation Time Off (ITO) projects, uninterrupted by normal hacking duties.

This helps provide an opportunity for Novell’s developers to work on innovative new projects they might not normally be able to work on.

Since most of the projects developed during Hack Week are open source, this also benefits the community by providing new code."

Several developers have asked me what “BREAD” means in web applications. Most everyone knows that CRUD is “create, read, update, delete,” but I think that misses an important aspect of web apps: the listing of records to select from.

I don’t recall where I first heard the term BREAD; it stands for “browse, read, edit, [...]

Michael Kimsal has pointed out a small irritation when using the Symfony framework and models - an issue when using models that have relationships.

The proceedings of the 2008 LLVM Developers' Meeting have been posted.

The presentations included some overviews of various LLVM subsystems and internals and a few projects targeting the LLVM. Previous meeting's proceedings are also available.

OStatic: "The developers of PHP announced last week that PHP version 4.4.9 is now available. This would not be remarkable in and of itself, except that the developers also indicated that this would be the last release of PHP 4.4."

On the PHP::Impact blog today Federico takes a look at the history of using models in components within the Zend Framework:

The Register: "A Pittsburgh computer consultancy is paying $45,000 in civil penalties over claims it discriminated against legal US residents by advertising only for developers on H-1B visas."