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Muhammad Furqan Abid

I am an experienced Web Developer and Tech Reporter, and I am passionate about writing on web design and development as well as tech news and updates and like to keep myself updated on the latest developments.

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PHP 5.3.0 Released!

by Muhammad Furqan Abid
written by Muhammad Furqan Abid
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The PHP development team is proud to announce the immediate release of PHP 5.3.0. This release is a major improvement in the 5.X series, which includes a large number of new features and bug fixes.

Some of the key new features include: namespaces, late static binding, closures, optional garbage collection for cyclic references, new extensions (like ext/phar, ext/intl and ext/fileinfo), over 140 bug fixes and much more.

For users upgrading from PHP 5.2 there is a migration guide available here, detailing the changes between those releases and PHP 5.3.0.

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Caution When Updating To WordPress 2.8

by Muhammad Furqan Abid
written by Muhammad Furqan Abid

Users reporting us, that they are missing files, after they automatically updated to WordPress version 2.8 and there were a problem while updating. We checked out the WordPress Trac and found a brand new record, which confirms this: Trac ticket # 10140

What happened and what are the conditions?

On one hand, the upgrade process has to be so far that the files were downloaded and unpacked. If anything goes wrong after these steps (wrong write permissions, etc.), the upgrade process makes a rollback and usually clears the downloaded files without any problems.

So much for theory. The practice shows, however, in exactly this case, because of a bug, previous existing installation files accidentally get deleted too, so the blog will no longer work!

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PHP

PHP released its new version 5.2.10 !

by Muhammad Furqan Abid
written by Muhammad Furqan Abid

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.10. This release focuses on improving the stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with over 100 bug fixes, one of which is security related. All users of PHP are encouraged to upgrade to this release.

Security Enhancements and Fixes in PHP 5.2.10:

  • Fixed bug #48378 (exif_read_data() segfaults on certain corrupted .jpeg files). (Pierre)

Further details about the PHP 5.2.10 release can be found in the release announcement, and the full list of changes are available in the ChangeLog.

Source: php.net

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Plugins

Five Ad Management Plugins for WordPress

by Muhammad Furqan Abid
written by Muhammad Furqan Abid

Once you have done the work to build your site, create the content and get the visitors streaming in it may then be time to monetize your site and maybe create a little income stream.  Now I am not talking get rich schemes here – just simple and easy ways to place ads in and around your site.  They may never make you a ton of money but they might create just enough of an income stream to make you a few bucks in the process.

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What's New

WordPress 2.8 Widgets Options Page

by Muhammad Furqan Abid
written by Muhammad Furqan Abid

In the current trunk of WordPress is a “first run” of the new widget management available to see. This is a development version, it shows the warning “This page is not 100% ready, please use only on test installations.”.

Also new is that the sidebar now saves or updates via AJAX. Here is a Screenshot from the current development version:

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