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Now that we have all the fancy gauges and buttons modern life provides to us, we may have gotten a little bit overdependent on them.

As it turns out, many of these gadgets are scarily inaccurate or even deliberately configured to lie to and appease us.

The PHP North West User Group ran it’s 4th (and largest yet!) PHP conference – PHPNW11 in Manchester last weekend.

The audience is a key part of any conference, and each year the PHP North West conference manages to attract more and more people back as it establishes its reputation for being one of the very best PHP conferences (and indeed, one of the very best UK tech conferences) around.

In a new post to his blog today Rob Allen shows you how to create compound form element handling in a Zend Framework application thanks to some custom work with Zend_Form and Zend_View extensions.

Facebook Places has us a little bit paranoid. After all, the idea of our friends checking us in at the yogurt shop isn't something that we want leaking out.

We're yogurt fanatics and we wouldn't want the word to get out to our friends and loved ones. So, if you're wondering how to turn off Facebook Places, read on.

I've been working on some changes to mtrack (a software development tracker implemented in PHP) this weekend, with a focus on improving the user experience for the mtrack administrator.

To be brutally honest, it was at best a meagre experience for the administrator, but now things are better.

They're still not perfect, but it should be a low enough bar to encourage more folks to play with mtrack. I've also spent a little bit of effort to add some caching to improve performance for certain pages.

For those that have tried it in the past, there's a ...

the Friday Blog: "I touched briefly upon OS independence when I wrote a little bit about the Q10 minimalistic word processor a few weeks ago and PyRoom, another minimalistic word processor, last week."

My slides for the "Common Optimization Mistakes" at the Dutch PHP Conference are now available here.

Thanks everyone for listening, I wish there was a little bit more time to allow for questions...

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Ubuntu Manual: "I am so impressed with this new chromium web browser, that i may even use it as my regular browser.

Flash support is not available by default, but by a little bit of tweaking, you can enable it too. Here is how."

On the Stubbles blog today Frank Kleine looks at a cool trick that the features of PHP 5.3 now make possible - extending objects at runtime by adding in new methods and functionality.