Language/library updates
PHP 5.2.16
PHP 5.2.16 was released. It contains a couple of minor bug fixes.
Tools and products
Zurb Verify
Zurb has released a new usability testing tool called Verify. It allows you to see a clickmap of where users are clicking on your page to perform tasks, which is very helpful when doing things like tracking down the cause of poor conversion rates.
Titanium Desktop 1.1 SDK
Appcelerator released version 1.1 of Titanium Desktop SDK, which allows you to use its Titanium development environment to write cross-platform desktop applications.
Tips and tricks
Implementing INotifyPropertyChanged in Silverlight
Pete Brown explores some options for implementing the INotifyPropertyChanged interface in Silverlight to give you compile time checking.
Preventing open redirection attacks in ASP.NET MVC
Jon Galloway posted a tutorial that shows how to stop open redirection attacks from working in ASP.NET MVC applications.
Working with Razor
Scott Guthrie wrote an article showing how to work with code nuggets in the new Razor view engine for ASP.NET MVC 3. He also wrote an article about working with sections without layouts.
Events
EclipseCon 2011 Program
The program for EclipseCon 2011 (March 21 - 24 in Santa Clara, CA) has been released.
Eclipse Mobile Plugin-Fest
There will be an event in Mountain View, CA on February 23 and 24 for Eclipse developers working with plugins to support mobile development in Eclipse.
J.Ja
Disclosure of Justin’s industry affiliations: Justin James has a contract with Spiceworks to write product buying guides; he has a contract with OpenAmplify, which is owned by Hapax, to write a series of blogs, tutorials, and articles; and he has a contract with OutSystems to write articles, sample code, etc.
