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Philip Olson has posted some kind of history of php-logos, so here are my two cents

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Photoshop CS3 for Forensics Professionals: A Complete Digital Imaging Course for Investigators
Written by George Reis

Digital imaging technology has been used in forensics since at least 1992, yet until now there has been no practical instruction available to address the unique issues of image processing in an everyday forensic environment. Photoshop CS3 for Forensics Professionals serves the everyday, real-world needs of law enforcement and legal personnel dealing with digital images (including both photos and video stills).

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The eZ Components project now
has its own dedicated website.
On the new website all the related resources are located in one
convenient spot. The website will be enhanced with other features, such
as dedicated RSS feeds, case studies, links to external articles and
more.

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The French tabloid “Paris-Match” has published a ‘Photoshopped’ picture of Nicolas Sarkozy, the president of France, while he’s paddling his kanoe on holiday in the USA. On the right, you see the original picture, as spread by press agency Reuters.

Oh, and if you want to know how to do a ‘quick fix’ like this yourself, one word: the Liquify tool.

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Website Security: Why https:// Isn’t EnoughWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Friday, 18 of January , 2008 at 2:16 pm

So you’ve decided that you want a part of your site to be secure. Good for you. But how do you ensure that it stays secure?

Just in case you aren’t aware of it. Any time you see http:// in an URL, it means you are looking at a non-secure web page. By contrast, https:// denotes that the web page is secure. Typically, you’ll see the https:// in the URL on pay pages, whenever you are purchasing something and you need to give out credit card information or other personal data. If you don’t see the https:// on a page that asks for your personal or private information then run away. Don’t give up your information because it isn’t secure.

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Bear Stearns Earns An F In Search Engine Reputation ManagementWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Friday, 28 of March , 2008 at 2:26 am

There has never been a better lesson in reputation management than that highlighted by the recent demise of Bear Stearns. Could they have been saved? We will never know. The one thing that is becoming clear is the lack of effective reputation management strategies to overcome any negative publicity.

Many business houses seem to feel that they are immune to any negative publicity or, at worst, they will only suffer minor bruises when a situation arises. Bear Stearns are not the only company to suffer from a negative rumor that became viral and they wont be the last.

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Sebastian Bergmann has officially announced the creation of a new planet in the PHP community - one specifically for the PHPUnit testing suite - Planet PHPUnit.

At the moment only three feeds are aggregated on Planet PHPUnit: release announcements, articles about new features in PHPUnit written by myself, and Manuel Pichler’s blog postings on phpUnderControl.

He also is requesting that anyone out there currently writing on any topics surrounding the popular unit testing framework send him an email letting him know where it’s at.

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Dave Story shows off a multi-lens array.
(Credit: Audioblog.fr)

Source: CNET
Written by Stephen Shankland

Today, if you want to trim all the distracting background out of a picture–say, the crowd behind your daughter playing soccer–you have to do a lot of artful selection with high-powered software such as Photoshop. But what if your computer understood the depth of the image, just as you did when you took the picture, and could be told to just erase everything that’s a certain distance behind your kid?

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Today on php-internals David Zlke posted an interesting example with namespaces which made me think about the result of the small example. Well, my first guess was not right as my experiments showed. Therefore I tried different versions of the example to see the impact of namespace and use declarations. But first, the example:

Name/Space/DateTime.php
namespace Name::Space;

class DateTime {}

Name/Space/Ship.php
namespace Name::Space;

class Ship {
public static function __autoload($className) {
echo “loading $className\n”;
// … autoloader, can load Name::Space::DateTime
}
}

somestuff.php
function someStuffWeDoNotHaveControlOver() {
$foo = new Name::Space::DateTime();
var_dump($foo);
// …
}

setup.php
require_once(’Name/Space/Ship.php’);
spl_autoload_register(array(’Name::Space::Ship’, ‘__autoload’));

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