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Jason Grimes has posted a new tutorial to his blog about integrating Zend Framework 2 with Doctrine, the powerful (and popular) ORM tool for PHP.

In his example, he shows how to use them to store the album information from Rob's tutorial.

Datamation: New open source browser is out, providing advanced HTML5 features and a rollback on third party plug-ins.

Forrester Research shared the early results of a survey on SharePoint 2010 Adoption and Migration trends this week at the Microsoft SharePoint 2011 Conference.

In this Quest white paper, discover the difficulty in connecting transaction components for monitoring, why continuously monitoring is key and how a third-party solution simplifies the challenge.

Read it today.

BerkeleyLUG: "It seems like nearly every 6 months, Apple redefines just how closed their closed platform can be. Instead of just completely restricting the source and distribution of their own software, they now also limit the kind of third-party applications and content their users can enjoy."

Reader Mike sent over a story from Investors.com claiming that eBay was now banning Google Checkout from eBay.

That struck me as odd, because we had written about eBay banning Google Checkout more than four years ago, and weren't aware that anything had changed.

And, in fact, that's the case.

The D-pad on the existing 360 controllers is, to put it mildly, utter garbage. If you want to play any games relying on precise movements, such as fighting games, buying a third-party controller is a requirement.

Microsoft hopes it has this problem licked, however, and is releasing a controller with a new, updated D-pad on November 9.

The catch? You won't be able to buy the controller alone; you'll need to grab the Play and Charge Kit to get it, and the final cost will be $64.99.

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Twitter is killing support for basic user authentication in third-party apps on Tuesday morning. Instead, Twitter will now require all third-party app developers to use OAuth for user authentication.

Tech Drive-in: "Most of us are familiar with Nautilus and its features. But there are a number of small hacks and some third party improvements which are not so common."