Hello Lucene users,

On behalf of the Lucene dev community (a growing community far larger than
just the committers) I would like to announce the release of Lucene Java
3.0.0:

The new version is mostly a cleanup release without any new features. All
deprecations targeted to be removed in version 3.0 were removed. If you are
upgrading from version 2.9.1 of Lucene, you have to fix all deprecation
warnings in your code base to be able to recompile against this version.

This is the first Lucene release with Java 5 as a minimum requirement. The

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PHP.JS is an open source library project in which we try to port PHP functions to JavaScript. By including the PHP.JS library in your own projects, you can use your favorite PHP functions client-side.

Using PHP.JS may speed up development for PHP developers who are increasingly confronted with client-side technology. PHP.JS is nothing fancy like jQuery—we’re just offering PHP functions, with all of their original flaws and benefits for whomever needs them.

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Few things can spark more religious fervour amongst programmers than the mention of a goto statement. PHP has stepped into the middle of the firefight by announcing that it will be implementing goto functionality in version 5.3.

There is plenty of discussion surrounding PHP's decision, with PHP founder Rasmus Lerdorf defending the move, stating it is no different than breaking to a label and that it will not be an unlimited goto (it will not let jumps into loops or switches).

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There has been lots of buzz about Booting time in various Linux OS. While Ubuntu is assuring 20 seconds booting time in their latest release. Fedora is also claiming to have 20 Seconds of booting time in just released Fedora Core 11. Person i have not tried any of them - but the trend seems promising.

Read this article where someone achieved 5 seconds complete boot time.
http://lwn.net/Articles/299483/

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Fedora Core 11 - code named Leonidas has been released on 9th June 2009.

Important changes in this version includes

* ext4 as the default file system
* experimental BTRFS activated by IcantbelieveitsnotBTR at bootup
* Faster Bootup aimed at 20 seconds.
* GCC 4.4
* KDE 4.2.2
* Gnome 2.26.1
* 2.6.29-4 Linux kernel
* Netbeans 6.5
* nVidia kernel modesetting through the nouveau open source driver.[54]
* OpenOffice 3.1.0
* Python 2.6
* Xfce to 4.6
* X server 1.6
Read complete list of changes at

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Navigation menus have really important role in any website. For big sites full with a lot of pages and articles, drop down menus and tabs are popular because they can make it a lot more easier to navigate and move through site, also you can save space on website displaying content on dynamic tabs. Also if you want to create a navigation menu, that really stands out of the crowd, jQuery could be the right choice to choose offering bunch of customizable options. That’s why I present to You 36 really good jquery navigation menu examples for every need.

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If you wanna get some information from servers using the protocols like http or ftp in PHP you can use cURL to do multithreading.
Multithreading is a term used when we do more jobs in parallel.
First I assume you know what cURL is and what you can it. If you are new to cURL, you can check one of my article on posting data with cURL , it will give you a brief intro to cURL.

http://codestips.com/php-multithreading-using-curl/

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Meet TYPOlight, a powerful Web content management system that specializes in accessibility (back end and front end) and uses XHTML and CSS to generate W3C/WAI compliant pages.
Accessibility

A growing number of countries around the world have introduced legislation which either directly addresses the need for websites to be accessible to people with disabilities, or which addresses the more general requirement for people with disabilities not to be discriminated against. TYPOlight does not treat accessibility as just an additional feature and is thoroughly accessible.

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The Zend Framework team is happy to announce the immediate availability of Zend Framework 1.8.1, the first maintenance release in the 1.8 series. You can download it via our downloads page; Use the CDN link for fast downloads, or scroll down the page for direct downloads of the 1.8.1 packages from the ZF servers.

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Simple tutorial to help you build your first twitter app

http://bakery.cakephp.org/articles/view/building-your-first-twitter-mash-up

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