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So over the last while, I’ve been working on a PHP package imaginatively named Services_Openstreetmap, for interacting with the openstreetmap API.

I initially needed it so I could search for certain POIs and tabulate the results; it’s now also capable of adding data to the openstreetmap database – nodes and other elements can be created, updated and so on.

I almost made a critical mistake on the production mysql database for one of my projects yesterday, which definitely would not have been a Good Thing if it had happened; even though I do have a custom prompt set up for mysql – when they’re all so similar you don’t always take heed.

So now, along with having the mysql prompt defined as prompt=’\h@\u (\d) > ‘ in the [mysql] section of my ~/.my.cnf file (so host, username and database name are included in the prompt), I have also installed rlwrap and set up an alias in my .bashrc:

Ken Guest has a recent post talking about some recent updates that have been made surrounding the PEAR support for finding holiday dates in various parts of the world.

In response to a different post he read on a postal/zip code validation topic, Ken Guest has points out other resources that can be used to accomplish the same sort of thing and already exist.

Ken Guest has posted a book review of a new release from Packt Publishing - "jQuery 1.3 with PHP" (by Kae Verens).

Ken Guest is joining several other bloggers in reviewing the "PHP Team Development" book from Packt Publishing (by Samisa Abeysinghe) and coming to the same conclusions as they did.

Ken Guest has put together a review of the second edition of the APress book "Beginning Joomla!" (by Dan Rahmel):

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• PHPClasses.org: Book Review: PHP 5 CMS Framework Development
• Ibuildings Blog: Zend Framework testing: emulating HTTP calls
• ProDevTips.com: CRUD with PHP Doctrine
• Matthew Weier O'Phinney's Blog: Using dijit.Editor with Zend Framework
• Harun Yayli's Blog: memcache.php flush

According to this new post on the PEAR blog, the new PEAR Group has been officially elected:

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• PHPEveryDay.com: New Smarty Tutorials
• PHPBuilder.com: Developing a Ajax-driven Shopping Cart with PHP and Prototype, Part 2
• Eirik Hoem's Blog: Populate PDF templates with PHP / FPDF / FPDI
• Derick Rethans' Blog: Xdebug finally in Debian
• Ken Guest's Blo