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Amazon has sanctioned the use of its e-reader – complete with note-taking facility – for ebook library loans in the US.

Working with CouchDB is very straightforward. There's virtually no setup involved and no complicated libraries to hassle with.

Rob Allen has pointed out a Q&A PDF that consolidates some of the common issues that people have had on Rob's Zend Framework tutorial.

DevShed has posted the latest article (the last) in their series looking at the "magic functions" that PHP has to offer.

This time they take a closer look at the autoload functionality.

Linux.com: "Both institutions deal with free materials, yet Linux and libraries haven't always turned out to be an ideal match, according to Tom Curl, a consultant and entrepreneur with a couple of library implementations to his own credit."

On the ITNewb.com website, there's this new tutorial looking at using the mcrypt libraries in PHP to help protect the data being passed around inside your application.

KOffice.org: "The KOffice team is extremely pleased to finally announce version 2.0.0 of KOffice. This release marks the end of more than 3 years of work to port KOffice to Qt 4 and the KDE 4 libraries and, in some cases, totally rewrite the engine of the KOffice applications."

Jani Hartikainen takes a look at two of the major PHP ORM libraries in this new post - Propel and Doctrine.

In case you hadn't heard by now, the symfony project's components sub-project of the main framework has gotten its own website: