Community News: A Look Back at 2007
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PHP was a great year for the PHP community and had both his high moments and its lows (just like any other community on the web) so, in lieu of our usual monthly recap type of year en post, we present a summary of some of the things that happened this past year:  2007 Gave us:  Plenty to talk about on namespaces GoPHP5 EMFs (Even More Frameworks) the mysqlnd driver lots of new tutorials over 2,500 new PEAR and PECL package releases Several new PHP releases (5.2.1, 4.4.5, 4.4.6, 5.2.2, 4.4.7, 5.2.3, 5.2.4 and 5.2.5) The End of Life for PHP 4 The Month of PHP Bugs A move for PHP in the Enterprise a renewed effort for Unicode support releases from the major framework players like CakePHP, Symfony, Zend Framework, Solar IBM and Oracle working together with Zend Over 130 new job postings Increased interest in running PHP on Windows (FastCGI!) The creation of and episodes 1 through 30 of the Zend Developer Zone podcast PHP Abstract   Books:  The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web Sites PHP and MySQL by Example PHP Solutions PHP Programming with PEAR PHP in Action Pro Drupal Development The eZ Components Developers Handbook The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks (2nd Edition) Learning PHP Data Objects Enterprise PHP Development (announced)   Conferences:  5th Annual eZ Conference Vancouver PHP Conference php|tek 2007 Dutch PHP Conference SymfonyCamp php|works 2007 Zend/PHP Conference & Expo 2007 (including the Unconference) DC PHP Conference 2007 PHP London 2007 Conference   I know there's stuff out there that I've missed, so comment away and let the community know! (I might come back and link all of these things later on)
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Looking back on a year of advertising innovation
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2007 marked one of the worst years for financial stocks in recent memory.
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InfoWorld - In the first column of this year, I discussed computer security outlook and hopes for 2008. I forecast more of the same that we saw in 2007: more spam, more malware, more bad guys basically owning the Internet and our connected computers. I don't see any trends or new leaders with significant power to change the status quo.
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So many lessons to learn from the 2007 housing crisis.
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In this article I've selected what I consider to be some of the past year's outstanding achievements in the world of Linux music and sound software. It's not really a "Best Of 2007", it's just my personal choices for what I found most interesting and significant in the past year.  read more
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A look ahead at issues and events likely to make headlines in the coming year.
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FYI -- FILM YOUR ISSUE asked 16 to 25 year olds  around the world to share what's on their  minds circa 2007.
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By Julie Sevrens Lyons, San Jose Mercury News, Calif.  Dec.
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By Edward D. Murphy staff writer  March 11, 2007, may not have the ominous overtones of Jan. 1, 2000, but the date could cause a few of the headaches that people worried would come with the new millennium.
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Details from the candidates' fundraising reports for the fourth quarter of 2007:
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Chosen from the hundreds of products PC World reviewed in 2007, here are 25 that will change the way you work, communicate and play this year -- and beyond.
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In each of the prior six years, K5 has issued predictions for the year to come. Most predictions have been quite bland, and the let's face it, so have the last few years. For six years now, the news has been a continuous stream of more of the same - recession for a time, expansion for a time, a couple soldiers a week killed in Iraq and Afghanistan, and an endless stream of boogeymen to terrorize the populace into supporting whatever the global elite thinks the governments should do. But this past summer something remarkable happened: cracks began to appear in the American War Machine - not militarily, of course, but in the supporting financial system. The housing bubble - mentioned in the 2007 &amp; 2006 stories, and in comments in 2005 - peaked in 2005, declined in 2006, and imploded this past summer. Banks that financed a house for anyone with no money down have lost billions. In future years, 2007 will be considered a turning point in the planet's social evolution. Things get interesting from here on out. After reviewing last year's hits, I will make some bold predictions about the years to come.
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From Apple's boardroom to alternative energy, privacy, and piracy, it was easy to see how the news in 2007 got people stirred up.
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The AP takes a look at some of 2007's overlooked albums:
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In 2007, life online continued to meld with life offline.
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About this time last year, I wrote a column following up on some pieces I'd written earlier to see what if anything new had happened to those topics. The reaction I heard afterwards convinced me that revisiting old news was a worthwhile exercise -- in general, it's too easy for tech reporters to lose sight of how a product works over time in the real world, as opposed to a brief trial in a reviewer's hands.