There’s been a significant decision reached recently concerning the future of PHP, in particular for the development of PHP 6. Yesterday, the PHP Internals group reached what seems to be a tentative agreement to postpone implementation of a Unicode PHP engine, and instead focus on developing PHP 5.3 as the main PHP development branch.

Open PHP MyProfiler could be the answer for your MySQL profiling needs.

There’s been lots of buzz about Zend Framework 2.0 recently, and for good reason: the feature list is truly kick-ass. With dozens of proposed changes, the second iteration of the web’s most popular framework is looking to be considerably better, more efficient and easier to use than the first, while still offering the functionality that framework users have come to expect.

Test-Driven Development is a test-first approach, and it could never be different. The advantages of test-first outweigh the time spent writing tests.

Red Hat has created the basis of a book on open source communities, and it will be completed with the very approach proposed in it.

Software development is the land of egos and opinions—and it seems that, no matter how bad we try, we’re always doing things the wrong way. But why?

Microsoft continues its commitment to PHP on Windows with the latest release of its opcode cache, WinCache. WinCache 1.1-Beta adds new features to this growing project.

Lithium hits version 0.7, bringing 170 commits from 6 different developers…including SQL support.

For the first episode in the TEK·X we have Jonathan Wage – Project Manager for the Doctrine project – talking to us about the Doctrine project and specifically Doctrine 2.

Eliot Horowitz and the rest of the core MongoDB Team released a post on the project blog addressing current and future development of the project. The team has released two stable releases — 1.0 and 1.2 — and has a third, version 1.4, coming that contains “better concurrency, geospatial indexing, ‘usability’ enhancements and speed enhancements, to name a few.”