The free blogging software WordPress has been updated to version 2.8 and is now available to download. The main improvement of version 2.8 is that it is way faster than previous versions.

Visually, the new release looks very much like the previous version 2.7 “Coltrane”, but version 2.8, named “Baker” after the noted trumpeter and vocalist Chet Baker, has a number of improvements in themes, widgets and performance. The developers also fixed over 790 bugs.
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Linux.com have a feature on using DrasticGrid. DrasticGrid is an Ajax-based datagrid with editing support. It uses MySQL as a data source and it supports pagination, sorting, editing records, adding records and removing records. Pagination is implemented efficiently, only the visible data is sent to the browser. The grid is configurable in many ways, you may specify wich columns are shown, and which are editable.
DrasticGrid is one of three controls from DrasticData — the others are a tag cloud and Google Maps controller, both of which also get their data …

Mac OS X Leopard comes with a built-in web server (Apache) and with PHP version 5 (5.2.4 to be precise). This makes OS X a great web development platform out of the box and it comes. While there are 3rd party Apache/PHP/MySQL packages like MAMP, XAMP it isn’t hard to get the native PHP and Apache working.
There is a great article on this here.
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Nobody enjoys that basic file manager that comes with the software installed by your web host… or do you? Well, you might have to reconsider when you take a look at Relay File Manager, an Open-Source php file manager that looks and works very similar to Windows Explorer or the Mac file browser.
Relay supports features like:

dragging-and-dropping files and folders
refreshing the server-side folder view without reloading the page
upload progress bar (Perl required)
multiple-file upload and download, email
preview thumbnails for images and pdf (with ghostscript support)
multiple permissions for folders, users

Basic requirements are: PHP …