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Just saw the news after the holiday. Curiosity found firm clue that Mars may harbor life somewhere under its shell. Scientists confirmed that the rover found sources of methane coming our from the underground. The scientists are not sure about the source, but 95 percent of methane (CH4) here in Earth is produced by various lifeforms. The discovery was reported at the American Geophysical Union Fall Meeting. “It is one of the few hypotheses that we can propose that we must consider as we go forward,” said John P. Grotzinger, the mission’s project scientist.The scientists also reported that for the first time, they had confirmed the presence of carbon-based organic molecules in a rock sample. The so-called organics are not direct signs of life, past or present, but they lend weight to the possibility that Mars had the ingredients required for life, and may even still have them. Full news at NY Times, BBC.

Just saw the news in TeckCrunch. Nadella started to take bold decisions which could surely change Microsoft in near future. Starting from the server side technologies only, maybe in future we will all see a complete bar-free ecosystem for everyone. Read full article http://techcrunch.com/2014/11/12/microsoft-takes-net-open-source-and-cross-platform/

PHP 7, a major update to the server-side scripting language due next year, will offer performance improvements and more capabilities, along with deprecation of some existing features. The release will be anchored by performance enhancements derived from the phpng branch of the PHP tree. Officials from PHP tools vendor Zend Technologies discussed the progress of phpng and PHP 7 at the company’s ZendCon conference in Silicon Valley this week. “[The upgrade is] really focused on helping real-world applications perform significantly faster and plus, we’re going to have additional improvements in PHP,” said Zend CEO Andi Gutmans, who has been involved in the ongoing development of PHP. Recent versions of PHP have been part of the 5.x release series, but there will be no PHP 6. “We’re going to skip [version] 6 because years ago, we had plans for a 6 but those plans were very different from what we’re doing now,” Gutmans said. Going right to version 7 avoids confusion. The phpng improvements in version 7 have been focused on areas such as hash tables and memory allocation. A chart on the state of phpng as of this month, presented at the conference, had the technology producing a 35 percent speedup on synthetic tests; 20 to 70 percent performance improvements on real applications, including a 60 percent improvement on WordPress home pages, and better memory consumption for most useful server APIs. The technology supports most PHP extensions bundled into the PHP source distribution and provides speed comparable to the HHVM 3.3.0 open source virtual machine. A PHP developer at the conference expressed optimism about phpng. “Obviously, speed is the most important thing to a Web app or any app in general,” said developer Pete Nystrom, vice president of engineering and co-founder at Classy.org, an online fundraising platform. While recognizing it would be a while before the technology was available in tools, Nystrom understands what's at stake. “Obviously, going into the core and speeding up all these functions that are core to PHP is a massive undertaking and something that’s going to be great for all of us.” Also on tap for PHP is elimination of some existing features. “We’re going to deprecate some old functionality that we think is not that interesting anymore,” Gutmans said. Ext/ereg and ext.mysql are on the deprecation list and have both been replaced by other extensions. Other deprecated features include # style comments in ini files and string category names in setlocale(). source : http://www.infoworld.com/article/2841561/php/php-7-moves-full-speed-ahead.html

i have been looking around in gisarea.com especially in RS-GIS Area Sharing Section, sometimes i found a programs/tutorial with many link (part by part). i think we can start to upload a torrent for any file, we can start with public torrent maybe we can upload in TPB or Kickass torrent, its look like more easy to share via p2p, single link and file can be eternal in internet (if have seeder). anyway sharing via p2p we can resume our donwload anytime. this is just a suggestion because some of book/program in RS-GIS Area Sharing is difficult to find.

I know some of you here using webgis with PHP a lot, so here we go, I just found nice ebook apps on google play really handy for webgis with php development Description : This app offers an always up-to-date official PHP documentation. The manual contains more than 13.000 files and comes with user notes. Features: - latest manual release version - offline (no connexion needed) - code examples - user notes see here : https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=awamestudio.phpmanual&hl=en happy coding