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Padraic Brady is back today with the second part of his "Dependency Injection in Zend Framework 2.0" series.

In this second post he talks about what dependency injection containers are (and aren't) and how they could lead to bad practices if they're considered as service locators.

On the Ibuildings techPortal today there's a new post from Marcello Duarte following up on his previous post looking at behavior driven development (here) with a look at PHPSpec, a port of RSpec that is the first PHP BDD framework.

Padraic Brady has posted the first in a new series of articles to his blog talking about the most recent happenings on the Zend Framework Contributors mailing list.

In a new post to his blog Padraic Brady takes a look at remote timing attacks that happen on a nanosecond scale and whether or not we, as application developers, should take them seriously.

Timing attacks involve gleaning information off of systems based on the response and execution time.

Padraic Brady has a new post on his blog talking about a new proposal he's made for the Zend Framework about filtering and sanitizing HTML content.

In order to help relieve some of the flood of issues that the Zend Framework project has with contributions, a new team has been/is being formed to work with some of the issues surrounding contributions to the framework.

Padraic Brady has a new post to his blog talking about the formation of this team.

The php|architect Podcast has release the first in a new series called the "oddWeek" episodes. This latest episode features hosts Keith Casey and Cal Evans talking to Ed Finkler about recent developments in the PHP community about packaging and distribution of applications.

Padraic Brady has a quick post in response to some questions he saw about installing PHP on a Ubuntu system (9.10/Karmic Koala) via apt-get.

If you haven't gotten a chance to participate in one of the Zend Framework Bug Hunt Days, you can get up and running pretty easily with this guide from Padraic Brady that introduces you to the concept and includes a few helpful hints to keep in mind when you participate.

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