I've had many request for access to the videos either on a DVD or in a downloadable format for viewing offline. So after many months of brushing it off, I now have the videos for you.

The download version will cost you about $20 USD and the DVD is around $30 USD. Of course, you're still free to watch them online as many times as you'd like.

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 4.4.9. It continues to improve the security and the stability of the 4.4 branch and all users are strongly encouraged to upgrade to it as soon as possible. This release wraps up all the outstanding patches for the PHP 4.4 series, and is therefore the last PHP 4.4 release.

Issues corrected by this release include an upgrade to the PCRE version, a crash bug in imageloadfont and the open_basedir handling in the curl extension. You can download this latest release from downloads page on the PHP.net website.

Those asking usually can understand why running two debuggers at the same time will lead to problems, but they don't understand why problems should arise when only one is used at a time. They want to be able to load Zend Debugger and Xdebug with the same php.ini without the need to restart the whole server just to change the debugger.

You can grab the patch from his site and install it like normal. With the patch, your PHP install will handle the rest behind the scenes.

The problem I was having was actually judging whether or not it would be worth my time following their tweets. I mean, I follow someone that is really respected in a certain field, only to find out that they tweet about their new puppy they just got more than anything. So I made a PHP script that generates a "Twitter Tag Cloud." Using this, you can generate your own Twitter tag cloud to put on your personal site to display the top keywords that you have been tweeting about.

You can either check out an example of the cloud through the form in the post, use his REST service to get the keywords for a user or you can download his code and try it out for yourself.

This is a recording from the P3 Live! Video/podcast we recorded on Tuesday July 29, 2008. Over 50 people joined Paul, Beth and Sean to watch the video stream and listen live. We even managed to cover some news, and talk to some people.

Special thanks to Evan Prodromou from http://identi.ca and Terry Chay for taking our phone calls, and especially to everyone who joined us for the party.

You can either subscribe to their feed and get it automatically or you can grab the mp3 directly.

OCI 1.3.4, with the changes I mentioned in my last post, is now available on PECL: http://pecl.php.net/package/oci8.

He also mentions the work on the Windows version of the extension that he's been up to with the plan to make two OCI8 DLL releases for the future - one using 10g libraries and the other using 11g.

When you combine some neat functionality courtesy of PHP with the cleverness of jQuery you can produce some pretty cool results. In this tutorial we'll create a poll using PHP and XHTML, then make use of some jQuery Ajax effects to eliminate the need for a page refresh, and to give it a nice little bit of animation.

The PHP handles defining the question, answers and the functionality to load, submit and return the current results (number of votes) back to the javascript. The communication between the PHP and javascript is a JSON message made simple thanks to PHP's json_encode function.

You can download the source or check out a live demo to see how it all fits together.

We couldn't be happier to announce that Zend Framework 1.6 Release Candidate 1 is now available from the Zend Framework download site!

New features include the major Dojo integration, SOAP components and updates to the functionality for unit testing, session handling, pagination, character sets and much more. Check out the full list in the Zend Developer Zone post.

From the Twitter feed of Matt Mullenweg:

Iâ'™m happy to announce that version 2.6 of WordPress.org is now available, almost a month ahead schedule. Version 2.6 "Tyner," named for jazz pianist McCoy Tyner, contains a number of new features that make WordPress a more powerful CMS: you can now track changes to every post and page and easily post from wherever you are on the web, plus there are dozens of incremental improvements to the features introduced in version 2.5.

You can check out some of the new functionality in the video included in Vinu's post and you can grab this latest download from the main WordPress website.

The main purpose of this extension is to make a dev's life easy. This extension has been used by several of my devs at RBS and has been proved to increase productivity and reduce the number of painful small queries to write. Their enthusiasm has driven me to post this for the CI fans out there.

Installing the extension (download) is a simple replacement of the old Model.php and the creation of a model file for all of the tables in your application. He recommends checking out the source for some "really handy" bits of functionality.