functionality

TechWorld: "The industry is moving towards a world where multiple public cloud providers will be competing on price, functionality and uptime."

In a recent post to his blog Jeremy Cook has a tutorial about using the Countable interface (part of the SPL) in your objects to make them play nicely with functions like count.

Wazi: "jEdit's design allows you to use it as a simple editor, but also use it as an IDE and expand its functionality via plugins so that it becomes exactly what you want it to be for the task or language at hand."

On her blog today Lorna Mitchell has a quick tip for anyone having an issue sending POSTed JSON data with the curl functionality that can be built into PHP.

The trick to her method is sending things with the right header.

Linux.com: The Gentoo-based SystemRescue CD/USB is one of the very best rescue distros, packing amazing functionality into a 350MB image.

Scribbles and Snaps: "At first sight, this may seem like a rather obscure functionality, but it can be put to some clever uses."

Tech Drive-in: "Application Indicators are good way to extend the functionality of brand new Ubuntu 11.04 and here are some of the most useful among them."

The first draft of the R7RS small language standard is now available at:

http://trac.sacrideo.us/wg/attachment/wiki/WikiStart/r7rs-draft-1.pdf

Datamation: "Both open source and closed source browsers on the Linux desktop manage to extend browser functionality far beyond the usual.

This has proven both exciting and problematic. Exciting in the sense that we can now do more than ever thought previously with our browsers, yet problematic in that we have more moving parts that malfunction us."

In a recent post Cal Evans shares his opinion on why he thinks the Drupal project should fork PHP and what benefits he sees for them in doing it.