PRADO 2.0.3 was just released. See the announcement for details. The most interesting feature in this maintainance release is AJAX support through the popular Prototype JavaScript Framework. Nice to see that Jason has also setup a PEAR channel for installing PRADO through the PEAR installer as I suggested earlier.

I just listened to PRADO founder and core developer Qiang Xue and core maintainer Jason Ragsdale which gave an interview about PRADO on Pro-PHP Podcast recently. It's not a very technical talk actually, but an introduction to what you can expect to find in this framework.

PRADO is being seen as a very mature framework for web applications now. It will be fun to see the masses embrace this framework more in the near future. As you may know, I'm hooked, see you on the forum. ;)

The second International PHP Conference this year held in Frankfurt is over. Sadly I couldn't be there but I've tried to find most of the slides from the conference. Here's what I've found:

• Unicode and PHP - Derick Rethans
• How PHP Ticks - Derick Rethans
• PHP & Performance - Ila Alshanetsky
• PHP 5 OOP - Ila Alshanetsky
• PHP Security - Ila Alshanetsky
• 3D Rendering with PHP (German) - Kore Nordmann
• Distributing PHP applications with PEAR - Tobias Schlitt
• Relational Database Starter Day - Lukas Smith
• fast, portable, SQL I - Lukas Smith
• fast, portable, SQL II - Lukas Smith
• PEAR hands on - Lukas Smith
• Applikationsintegration mit PHP5 (German) - Markus Wolff
• PHP, AJAX und XUL im Intranet (German) - Markus Wolff
• Winbinding Your Code - Aaron Wormus
• Welten vereinigt euch! Testen von PHP Applikatioenn mit Java Tools - Karl Heinz Marbaise
• Professional Reports With SVG - Stefan Neufeind
• Secure PHP Environment - Stefan Neufeind

Aaron Wormus actually released a podcast from the first conference day :)

How to get direct rendering from ATI Mobility FireGL T2 on Ubuntu can be found here.

PHPUnit Pocket Guide by Sebastian Bergmann is now available online. :)