I’ve seen a number of blog posts floating around today about GMail Desktop Notifications (here, here, here, here and here — did I miss anyone?). I tried them out myself and they are very useful. Being a rich web applications developer I, of course, wanted to figure out how it works and how I could use it for my own apps. Here’s a quick overview of what I found.
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Rest assured. Soon I will be writing “Things about PHP 5.3 that make me cringe” but for now I sing the praises of the latest release of PHP that that came out today. I’ve been playing with the new release for months and there are indeed many good things about it and many of them have been a long time coming.

The other day I was reading the release notes and I couldn’t help but smile.
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