According to the PHP::Impact blog, the PHP-based replacement for Twitter has finally arrived - identi.ca.

Identi.ca is a microblogging service. Users post short (140 character) notices which are broadcast to their friends and fans using the Web, RSS, or instant messages. It runs on the Free Software Laconica tool.

If you'd like to give it a shot you can register for an account of your own and start posting. It also supports OpenID authentication.

Sebastian Bergmann has posted a "wanted" sign over on his blog - he's looking for a PHP function to do two things:

• takes two strings as its input and
• returns a string with the differences between the two string in the same format as GNU diff would return for diff -u for two files that contain the respective strings.

Think you can help him out? Drop him a line...

Sebastian Bergmann has posted a "wanted" sign over on his blog - he's looking for a PHP function to do two things:

• takes two strings as its input and
• returns a string with the differences between the two string in the same format as GNU diff would return for diff -u for two files that contain the respective strings.

Think you can help him out? Drop him a line...

Chad has passed along a note today about a new release from the ITema group - the first Enterprise service bus for PHP developers, Blackbird.

ITema, Inc. today released Blackbird, its PHP enterprise service bus (ESB), to the Open Source community under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Blackbird allows PHP developers to rapidly develop loosely-coupled software applications, allowing them to leverage PHP's development speed and ease of use for application integration tasks.

It works well with Apache ServiceMix (via a common message queue) and has an "extensive collection of APIs, protocol handlers and XML/string parsing routines". The software is available for download and is released under the GNU General Public License as free for both personal and business use. There is also commercial support available as well as a forum to help you get the answers you need.

See also this post from PHPGeek.com

Chad has passed along a note today about a new release from the ITema group - the first Enterprise service bus for PHP developers, Blackbird.

ITema, Inc. today released Blackbird, its PHP enterprise service bus (ESB), to the Open Source community under the GNU General Public License (GPL). Blackbird allows PHP developers to rapidly develop loosely-coupled software applications, allowing them to leverage PHP's development speed and ease of use for application integration tasks.

It works well with Apache ServiceMix (via a common message queue) and has an "extensive collection of APIs, protocol handlers and XML/string parsing routines". The software is available for download and is released under the GNU General Public License as free for both personal and business use. There is also commercial support available as well as a forum to help you get the answers you need.

See also this post from PHPGeek.com