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IT World: "Over the past few months, there have a lot of potential iPad competitors entering (or preparing to enter) the market.

The most common are Android-based tablets running either the current/recent Android releases or models that will ship with Google's tablet-optimized Honeycomb release"

The six new CPUs, along with lowered prices on previous models, help fill out AMD's enthusiast and mainstream processor lines.

Microsoft has confirmed it will eventually phase out its existing Xbox models in favor of the new "slim" version.

I’m putting together a basic Zend Framework starter kit.  Right now I’ve got basic Doctrine 1.2 integration with predefined directories for schema, models, etc.

 Also an init process to allow for automatic injection of specified objects on to front controllers (think $this->session available in your controllers, for example).

Any interest in getting a copy of this?

 What other things would you like to see preconfigured or preintegrated in a starter kit?

In a new post to his blog Matthew Turland takes a look at one of the concepts it's more difficult for those new to the Zend Framework to wrap their heads around - models.

This past Friday, I released verion 1.0.0beta5 of the Solar Framework for PHP. You can read the change notes here.

Overall, most of the work was related to the form helpers and making them even more flexible than they were previously.

We’ve also added a new manual chapter on working with models and forms. It [...]

Juozas Kaziukenas has posted the second part of his series looking at the combination of the Zend Framework and Doctrine (part one is here).

In the previous part he explained the technologies some. In this second part of the series he focuses more in getting Doctrine set up and working.

Triple-core and energy efficient models enter AMD's mainstream processor family.

Tuxarena: "Here is a guide for configuring the original ioQuake3 game, including customisation of cvars, using new maps, weapons and characters models, and more.

This guide will also successfully apply to the newer OpenArena game, which is practically ioQuake3 with changed weapons, maps and models."

Jim Plush is back with a third part of his look at rethinking models in Zend Framework applications (part one, part two), this time focusing on validation rules.