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.”

The new release fixes a security vulnerability (shocking, we know); users are urged to update.

There is more to it than writing lines of code. What about planning?

Contributing to your favorite open source PHP framework is a gift to the project’s community. Moreover, you will surely benefit from not having to patch it by yourself at every new release.

The PHP development team today released PHP 5.3.2, a maintenance release fixing a large number of bugs and a few security issues as well.