Web Dev Digest Episode 10 Intro ...INTRO MUSIC... Welcome to the Web Dev Digest, your daily web development news roundup. This is episode number ten, for Tuesday, July tenth, 2007. I'm your host, Ara Pehlivanian. ...MUSIC INTERLUDE... Hello and welcome the show. Zend Review Last week in episode five I covered the first release of the Zend PHP Framework. Now Jonathan Snook, an experienced PHP developer, gives us his first impressions on Zend. In a post on his blog today, Snook describes the framework as having "a heavy focus on web services with ready-made components for Akismet, Amazon, Last.fm, Del.icio.us, Flickr, Google and more." Snook compares Zend to two other popular PHP frameworks, CakePHP and Code Igniter. His conclusion is a delightfully unexpected example of interoperability. Since Zend doesn't have built in MVC capability, but is chock full of utility classes and CakePHP is an MVC framework at heart full of automation, he chooses to keep both! He demonstrates this in a marvelously simple set of code examples using CakePHP's vendor support functionality. He then takes us through an implementation of Zend's del.icio.us component on his site, which is built with CakePHP. For details and code examples, be sure to check out the show notes for a link to his post. JSFToolbox 2.0 for Dreamweaver CS3 TheServerSide dot com is reporting that JSFToolbox 2.0 is now available for Dreamweaver CS3. According to JSFToolbox dot com, "it is a suite of design and coding extensions for Dreamweaver that enables Java developers to design and build Java Server Faces pages with Adobe's industry-leading Web authoring tool." Front-End Code Certification Peter-Paul Koch otherwise known as PPK of quirksmode dot org fame has taken it upon himself to found a guild of front-end programmers. The purpose of the guild "is to further professionalise the front-end programming discipline within the Netherlands." Koch proposes a three star system where front-end developers can gain certification relative to their level of ability. He aims to be giving out one star certificates, which represent a basic level of CSS knowledge, by the end of the year. More advanced certificates will come in the months following. Now if only someone could found a globally recognized certification program. Template Maker Adrian Holovaty has released a Python library "for extracting data from similarly formatted text strings" which he calls "templatemaker." Basically, you feed it an arbitrary number of HTML documents which it analyzes and then extracts from them the common template used to build them. Once it has that, it can essentially null the template out and scrape the raw data from the pages. In other words, templatemaker is a pretty advanced screen scraper. Though the project is still in its infancy, Holovaty planning on adding a more features to it. He's also interested in seeing what uses people have for it. Interview with Tim Berners-Lee Slashdot is reporting that ITWorld dot com sat down for an interview with Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of the world wide web. In the interview, Berners-Lee talks about the future of the Web, in particular his latest work on the Semantic Web, he also sounds off on Net Neutrality. Firefox and IE security flaws And finally, CNET news dot com is reporting that "users could face a 'highly critical' risk if they have both IE and Firefox version 2.0, or later, loaded on their computer." Oliver Friedrichs, director of Symantec's Security Response Center says "You have two very complex applications that are not playing well together and leading to a security issue. The components themselves are secure as stand-alone products but not together." He went on to say that the number of people who may be at risk could be substantial. Outtro ... OUTTRO MUSIC FADE IN ... You've been listening to the Web Dev Digest, your daily web development news roundup. This was episode number ten, for Tuesday, July tenth, 2007. I'm Ara Pehlivanian. Show notes with links to the news covered in this episode can be found on web dev digest dot net.