PHPWomen.org recently held an article-writing contest on their Best Practices Forum. Authors of the two winning submissions each received copies of Zend Studio for Eclipse, a 1-year subscription to Linux Pro Magazine (which is called Linux Magazine outside North America), and the opportunity to feature their articles on the magazine websites. Congratulations goes to Gerard Sychay for his winning submission!

For many people, the summer is an ideal time to go on vacation. Summer of 2008 was also a productive time for Amarok developers.

Google's software for mobile communication, Android, is scheduled for release in November along with the Dream ''GPhone."

Linux Pro Magazine's Editor in Chief, Joe Casad meets Gerald Carter, a senior Likewise Software developer and long-time member of the Samba core development team

At first, plans for Gtk+ 3 were considered unnecessary – the developers themselves considered the 2.x version mature enough – now, some developers are toying with the idea of developing Gtk+ 3. Gnome founder Miguel de Icaza comments on and criticizes the developments in his blog.

As a PHP Programmer, you may occasionally find yourself at a dead end. Discovering the perfect code snippet, script, or class to use alongside your own code can save time and frustration.

The PHPEclipse plugin brings the PHP scripting language to the Eclipse development environment, and the Subclipse plugin integrates version control.

The Mercury programming language offers the expressive power of logic programming with the performance of an imperative language like C or C++.