Zoellick: consensus-builder in trade, foreign affairs
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Robert Zoellick, US President George W. Bush&#39;s choice to head the World Bank, is a former top diplomat and trade chief with a reputation for building consensus on issues ranging from German unification and Darfur to China&#39;s WTO entry.
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Paolo hypothesizes a much-needed tool in a post yesterday, and a follow-up today.
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Alexey Zakhlestin gave a talk for the PHPThinktank IRC channel recently on the topic of YAML, PHP, and some of the work that he's done combining the two.   It happened a bit of spontaneously, so noone was invited. It was my first try, to make introduction to yaml for php prgrammers, and if there is more interest I will give another talk which will cover more details, this time with proper scheduling :)   You can check out the log of the discussion for his entire talk (covering topics like what YAML is, where to get more information on it, some of its features, and a mention of the Syck library for parsing it).
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An unlikely meeting of minds on an issue of global concern.
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Padraic Brady has put together a very comprehensive post on his blog today about using the Zend_Feed component of the Zend Framework to help with the aggregation of content from other sites (like RSS and Atom feeds).   In this entry I explore Zend_Feed from the perspective of someone aggregating RSS and Atom feeds with a view to building a database of uniquely identified content for later presentation in a "Planet" style application. [...] In fact all we create here is a simple command line script to aggregate content frequently (e.g. just set up cron to run it every hour or so) into a database for later presentation.   He guides you through each step of the way:   Setting Up Database And Models The Aggregator Script Foundation Using Zend_Feed to get common data for RSS/Atom entries Putting It All Together   There's plenty of code (and SQL to insert) in the post and he explains each point well, helping to make the development process smoother. There's even a summary section to toss in a few extra bits of information just in case you missed them along the way.
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Practical tools for assessing who is worth doing business with--and who isn't.
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Robert Zoellick, a nimble negotiator who has crisscrossed the globe as President Bush's trade chief and as the country's No. 2 diplomat, is the White House's choice to be the next World Bank president. Bush will announce the decision on Wednesday, according to a senior administration official.
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Investor's Business Daily - Trade negotiators may be near a breakthrough, said U.S. Trade Rep. Susan Schwab. The Bush administration is hoping, after over 6 years of fractious talks, to overcome divisions over tariffs, subsidies and other trade rules, and produce a new global pact before Pres. Bush leaves office. Rich nations want lower tariffs on industrial goods and services; poor nations want farm subsidies and tariffs scrapped.
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World Bank presidential nominee Robert Zoellick said on Tuesday he believed a deal could be clinched in the Doha round world trade talks and that such an accord would give a big boost to development and growth.
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I think I've mentioned this before but on Saturday Feb 12th I'll be talking  about the Jakarta FeedParser at CodeCon  in San Francisco.  I published an outline  of the talk on the FeedParser wiki.  I'm hoping to have a 0.5 release done before then and havepotentially another suprise in the works.
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Safend, an international provider of endpoint i
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To be, or not to be: Now Facebook users can decide.
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WORLD Trade Organisation (WTO) members have finally established a framework for negotiations to conclude the Doha Round. This is good news.
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Paul Jones has posted a teaser concerning his talks(s) at the upcoming php|works conference this year. One is about organizing your applications to make them easier to maintain and work better and the other is a follow up to some previous benchmarks he created comparing several of the popular PHP frameworks.   About The Benchmarking Talk - Easy one-liner: "Statistical Histories for Fun and Profit." And I do mean profit: the better your apps runs on a given stack, the more eyeballs you get on your ads (or, the more users you can handle).   He will be talking about why benchmarking your app is important, how to benchmark a framework and, the thing everyone's waiting for - his benchmark stats comparing several popular frameworks.   Paul also requests that, if possible, one developer from the teams of each of the other frameworks (besides Solar of course) could be in attendance to critique the talk and help point out issues either with the talk or in his methods.
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Robert B. Zoellick, a senior diplomat and trade envoy, has been tapped to try to heal the bitter rifts left by Paul D. Wolfowitzâs ouster.
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Money, ideas, people, diamonds--why we love the freedom of exchange.
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Cowboy diplomacy. Unilateralism. Foreign governments have sharply criticized President Bush&#39;s foreign policy in many ways. But on one issue, international trade, you could almost hear a collective sigh of relief over his reelection.