[BBC-News]An activist who questioned why so many people died in a huge earthquake in China last year is jailed five years for subversion.
[BBC-News]Toyota recalls thousands of Prius hybrid cars sold in Japan because of braking problems, as it tries to limit damage from a stream of problems.
[BBC-News]A UK civilian stabilisation group is to be launched later to help rebuild countries hit by conflict or disaster.
[v3]Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Tuesday 9 February 2010 at 01:37:00 Passed on Intel classified info for money The former managing director of Intel Capital has pleaded guilty to two counts of conspiracy and securities fraud as part of an investigation into insider trading by the Galleon Group...
[BBC-News]The BBC is to reveal the total amount paid to its performers who broadcast on radio and television.
[BBC-News]A mother-to-be goes into labour queuing for tickets for the FA Cup fifth round clash between rival clubs Southampton and Portsmouth.
[BBC-News]Experts fear older women are ditching contraception in the mistaken belief that fertility inevitably wanes at a certain age.
[BBC-News]Children as young as five are being targeted in a new online safety campaign by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.
[BBC-News]The press watchdog upholds two complaints by X Factor judge Dannii Minogue against the Daily Mirror and Daily Record for invasion of privacy.
[BBC-News]A quantum physics trick is set to give smartphones and hand-held devices pressure-sensitive switches and touchscreens.
[BBC-News]An inquiry begins to establish the extent of human trafficking in Scotland and whether victims have enough protection.
[BBC-News]A man stabbed his ex-wife to death in front of her children and then tried to kill his stepfather, a court hears.
[BBC-News]Emergency legislation is rushed through the House of Commons to allow the assets of suspected terrorists to be frozen.
[BBC-News]Activity in the UK housing market was frozen by the snowy weather although prices continued to rise, surveyors say.
[v3]Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Monday 8 February 2010 at 23:22:00 Torvalds raves over Google smartphone Google's Nexus One smartphone picked up a high-profile fan this weekend when Linux developer Linus Torvalds endorsed the handset. In a posting to his personal blog, Torvalds said that the...
[v3]Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Monday 8 February 2010 at 22:54:00 FBI cracking down on counterfeit Cisco kit A computer reseller has been jailed for 2.5 years after an investigation by the FBI into counterfeit computer equipment. Yongcai Li, a Chinese dealer based in California, has been sentenced...
[BBC-News]The pay-TV group BSkyB has given up its court fight over ITV and has cut its stake to meet competition rules.
[v3]Daniel Robinson, V3.co.uk, Monday 8 February 2010 at 20:00:00 Forthcoming chip with four CPU and one GPU cores will also be power-efficient AMD is to disclose details of its first Fusion processor today at the International Solid State Circuits Conference (ISSCC) in San Francisco, with an emphasis on design features that will...
[BBC-News]The office of the first and deputy first minister confirm who will be on a working group to examine the issue of parading.
[v3]Shaun Nichols in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Monday 8 February 2010 at 21:20:00 New malware hoax touts passing of comedy legend An online hoax claiming the death of Bill Cosby is now being used to push a malware attack. Researchers at security vendor Sophos have reported a new round of web...
[BBC-News]A UK soldier from 36 Engineer Regiment has been killed by an explosion in Afghanistan, the Ministry of Defence says.
[BBC-News]Police believe a flat in the east end of Glasgow was deliberately targeted by gunmen after shots were fired into the property.
[BBC-News]The Essex drama is named best film at the Evening Standard Film Awards, while Anne-Marie Duff wins the best actress category.
[PHPDeveloper]Benjamin Eberlei has a new post to his blog today pointing you to some PHP & Hudson CI integration resources that can help you get this powerful combination up and running for your deployment process.
Although phpUnderControl is the most wide-spread, but from I heard complex to setup/maintain, solution supposedly a hack and Arbit just in an early Alpha I decided to give Hudson a shoot. Another reason for this decision, I heard it has a simple plugin architecture and is easy to install and use.
He moved away from his own bash script-based CI setup towards something a bit more technical, something that would give him a bit more control over running unit tests, create code coverage, etc. He lists three sites that helped him get his Hudson install up and running and another is mentioned in the comments.
[PHPDeveloper]In a new post to the CatsWhoCode.com blog Jean-Babtiste Jung walks you through the creation of a simple monitoring script written using just PHP that can tell you if your web site is up and responsive.
In order to make sure that your website is always available to the public, you have to monitor it. In this tutorial, I'll show you how you can easily create a monitoring script that will check your website availability and send an email or sms alert to you if it isn't.
They have a snippet of code (about 15 lines long) with a function you can call to check a remote host's connection and check the returned data for a certain string. This can not only ensure that your site is responsive but also that it's not responding incorrectly. You could even use this to hit a certain monitoring page of your site to check for certain things (like database connection problems).
[BBC-News]Costa Ricans elect Laura Chinchilla as president, the first woman to occupy the post in the Central American nation.
[BBC-News]Neil Jenkins doubts Wales boss Warren Gatland will carry out his threat to drop Alun-Wyn Jones for being sin-binned against England.
[BBC-News]A 19-year-old man from the West Midlands is jailed for using a webcam to incite a woman from the US to abuse her own child.
[v3]Iain Thomson in San Francisco, V3.co.uk, Monday 8 February 2010 at 18:34:00 Keyboards on their way out report finds A new report by analyst house Canalys has found that the majority of smartphones sold worldwide now use a touch-screen interface rather than a keypad....
[BBC-News]Scientists film the giant serpent-like oarfish in its natural deep sea habitat in the Gulf of Mexico for the first time.
[PHPDeveloper]On the Xebee blog there's a recent post looking at test-driven development with the Zend Framework and PHPUnit. They show how they work well together and make it simpler to use TTD to create and test your applications.
Over the past few days I was going through the Zend Framework reference docs and I found myself pleasantly surprised with all that the latest version of this web application framework provides. [...] Out of the many new features, what stood out for me was the ease with which Zend Framework and PHPUnit complement and work with each other.
He talks about some of the features of PHPUnit (including dependencies, testing for exceptions and errors) and how it fits into a good deployment strategy. He shows how you can use the Zend_Test component of the framework, along with the Zend_Test_PHPUnit features, to make a sample test case. There's also an example of using the Zend_Test_PHPUnit_Db component to test database information and your backend data stores to compare them to a forma
[BBC-News]Hollywood couple Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt sue the News Of The World newspaper over allegations about their relationship.
[PHPDeveloper]New on the Blue Parabola blog today, there's an article from Keith Casey trying to set the record straight on some recent benchmarks put together by Zend and Acquia showing the performance of Drupal.
While I have not attempted to duplicate or validate any of their individual numbers or conclusion as a whole, I have been a Drupal user for well over five years and have launched 30+ sites on it.
With this experience to back him up, he points out a few things about the report that either needed work or were misleading in their results. This includes a limitation on the web server configurations they covered, the statistics on Windows performance (might turn people off to using it on this platform) and the emphasis being put in some of the wrong places - optimizing PHP versus Drupal.
He recommends that, like all studies and whitepapers like this, you take the results as only guidelines and examples, not as absolute facts. There's always going to be differences in hardware, software and configu
[v3]Rosalie Marshall, V3.co.uk, Monday 8 February 2010 at 17:35:00 Blatant rip-off raises search giant's hackles Google has threatened a Chinese search site called Goojje with legal action for copyright infringement, according to reports emerging from China....
[BBC-News]War crimes charges against a Darfur rebel leader are dropped by International Criminal Court judges.
[v3]Dan Worth, V3.co.uk, Monday 8 February 2010 at 16:44:00 Company claims 20,000+ users added to service every week BT Wholesale confirmed today that its Whole Broadband Connect (WBC) high-speed broadband service is now available to more than half the country....
[BBC-News]A body found in waters off south Wales is that of a missing woman whose car was found on the Second Severn Crossing.
[BBC-News]Gordon Brown praises the work of the international decommissioning body after three NI paramilitary groups get rid of their weapons.