Zend Technologies, the company behind PHP, has been acquired by Rogue Wave Software. Â This sounds like huge news, except that I have no idea about who Rogue Wave Software are, what they do, and what’s their plan in regards to PHP. Â Sure, the announcement suggests that they’ll help to push PHP technology into the enterprise. Â But, I guess, that remains to be seen.
Congratulations and kudos to Zend Technologies for all the work they’ve done so far.
“Flexible Feature Control at Instagram” article describes how Instagram controls the release of new features to groups of users.
I’ve implemented a very simple feature control mechanism before, but nothing to the sounds of this one. Â Rolling out to groups of users, conditional control, geo-tagging, and more. Â On top of it, non-technical users seem to be able to use for tuning the groups. Â This sounds quite impressive, especially when you think of the Instagram’s user base (400,000,000+ users).
Many a time I’ve been involved in building a custom WordPress theme, which relied or benefited from some plugins being installed and activated. Â I’ve always had an ad hoc solution to the problem, with my own installation scripts, WP-CLI mockery, etc. “Packaging third-party plugins with your WordPress theme using TGM Plugin Activation library” covers a much more elegant solution. Â I haven’t tried it yet, but it does look very promising for my next WordPress project.
GitHub blog brings us a piece of exciting news – now you can add more attachment types to comments. Â The list is no longer limited by images alone. Â Now you can attach Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files, as well as plain text and PDF documents. Â This feature alone will make GitHub Issues into a much more viable bug tracking option for many projects and companies.
Toptal runs the article “One Size Fits Some: A Guide to Responsive Web Design Image Solutions“, which discusses one of the trickiest problems of today’s web design and development – responsive images. Â They cover several tools and approaches – from HTML5 elements to on-the-fly image resizing and source shuffling.
Much recommended!