Recently SensioLabs released Symfony Reloaded (or Symfony 2.0). The first change that every symfony developer will notice is that it’s no longer “symfony”, but “Symfony” (hint capital “S”). Creators claim that “Symfony 2.0 leads a new generation of PHP frameworks”, unfortuantely we will be able to verify it in late 2010 – when the stable version will be ready. Read the rest of this entry »

Today is the day when blogging and micro-blogging overlap… The gap is closed, and the biggest blogging network was the one to do it. Sure, you can tweet a status update when you make a new post on Tumblr and other sites, but now you can actually post on your WordPress blog, from the Twitter API.
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Apparently, sometime this month, possibly incredibly soon, Google could be completely freezing up, not updating anything until after the New Year. Is this good, bad, or does it really mean nothing?
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I already know what your first reaction is, and yes. Seriously. Myspace is looking to integrate Facebook Connect into it’s monster of a social networking website sometime in 2010.
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Both Google and Facebook are slated for redesigns sometime in the near future (or, in Facebook’s case, a re-redesign). While Google’s redesign may be a bit more minor, it’s still important, considering how popular the search engine is. Facebook’s redesign is much more noticeable, and I quite like it.
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Few days ago Mozilla launched special site where you can find special FireFox addons. Special because they were written in JetPack. It’s a new technology that allows to write FireFox extensions not only in XUL, but in HTML, CSS and AJAX.

What is more important is that JetPack allows to use third party JavaScript libraries in your project, so developers can get full advantage of jQuery, Dojo, Google Maps and many other great JavaScript libraries. Read the rest of this entry »

Recently TechCrunch published article about Twitter and it’s decreasing traffic. According to comScore (company that offers solutions for online audience measurement), in October Twitter USA traffic declined by 8%. It dopped from 20.9 millions to 19.2 milions unique visitors.

Fortunately Twitter CEO Evan Williams is aware of this trend and hopes that new cool features that are going (or already were) implemented will reverse this trend. Read the rest of this entry »

Ever since the release of Windows 7, I’ve been pointing out some of the new features (such as the updated toolbar) that are blatantly similar to features in Mac OS X (the dock, in this case), but I never expected this.

In an interview the other day, Simon Aldous (Partner Group Manager, Microsoft) admitted that Windows 7 was built to somewhat feel like the Mac operating system.
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That is a second news about Google in the row, however i think this is something that will interest every developer.

Google created programming language. While it is still in a beta stage and even Google is not using it on production servers, it is already released to the public as an open source product and can be downloaded anytime. Read the rest of this entry »

Analytics says that mobile advertising market will be worth over three bilions of dollars in 2013, yet Google went ahead and already bought Admob mobile advertising and monetization solution for a shocking amount of $750 000 000.

Admob is typical marketplace where advertisers contact publishers and buy adverts directly from them. Admob platform has some nice features like mobile analytics and mobile metrics (which is pretty much the same functionality as in other advertising platforms but with “mobile” prefix). Read the rest of this entry »