Web Dev Digest Episode 5
 
Intro
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Welcome to the Web Dev Digest, your daily web development news roundup.
This is episode number five, for Tuesday, July third, 2007.

I'm your host, Ara Pehlivanian.

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Hello and welcome the show.


Adam Hertz and Tantek Çelik leave Technorati
Three years after having joined Technorati on the same day, both Adam Hertz and Tantek Çelik are saying goodbye to the company, on the same day. Hertz had been the Vice President of Engineering, and Çelik the Chief Technologist. But they won't be going too far, Hertz will become the company's first Technorati fellow, staying on to give Founder and CEO Dave Sifry and others strategic advice and support. Çelik will join the company's Board of Advisers. Taking their place as will be Dorion Carroll as the new Vice President of Engineering which is a consolidation of roles, combining engineering, technology leadership and product development.


IE6 dies hard 
Kevin Hale of Particletree dot com has written an article on the tenacity of Internet Explorer six where he takes a close look at some of the reasons why people aren't dumping the browser as quickly as some would have hoped. He argues that software that's ugly, buggy and slow isn't enough of a reason for users to seek out alternatives. In fact, Hale believes that the real reason for the quote unquote Firefox revolution that many of us witnessed not too long ago was in fact due to users' frustration with IE6's weakness against viruses, popups and spyware. He believes that patches to these problems in the form of toolbars that block popups and yes, even the advent of the iTunes music store, are the real reason for why less and less people are jumping the IE6 ship these days.
 

Dojo 0.9 
Ajaxian is reporting that a new version of Dojo, the JavaScript toolkit was released today. Version zero point nine sports many performance improvements while still coming in under the fifty k mark. Other improvements include improved accessibility support and a fully themeable widget system.


How to hide the iPhone toolbar
Firebug author Joe Hewitt has discovered how to hide the iPhone's Safari toolbar to make more room in the browser. With a simple JavaScript method call to window dot scrollto you can make the toolbar disappear, instantly freeing up valuable screen space for your site. You'll just have to remember detect the phone's rotation, and call the method again, as it re-appears when the phone goes from vertical to horizontal and back.


Zend Framework
Digital Web magazine is reporting that the Zend PHP Framework is in its first production release today. It boasts among other things, a powerful MVC framework, a Lucene compatible search engine, and advanced internationalization support.


Feedburner pro now free
Jonathan Snook reports on his blog that Google, after having recently acquired Feedburner, has decided to offer its Feedburner Pro service free of charge to everyone.


Programming note
And now a programming note, the web dev digest now has a new home at web dev digest dot net.

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You've been listening to the Web Dev Digest, your daily web development news roundup.
 This was episode number five, for Tuesday, July third, 2007.
Show notes with links to the news covered in this episode can be found on web dev digest dot net.

Show Notes

Adam Hertz and Tantek Çelik leave Technorati (http://technorati.com/weblog/2007/07/362.html)
IE6 dies hard (http://particletree.com/features/on-the-tenacity-of-internet-explorer-6/)
Dojo 0.9 (http://ajaxian.com/archives/dojo-09-the-next-generation-is-here)
How to hide the iPhone toolbar (http://www.joehewitt.com/blog/iphone_tips_loo.php)
Zend Framework (http://www.digital-web.com/news/2007/07/zend_framework_finally_reaches_100/)
Feedburner pro now free (http://snook.ca/archives/quick_links/google_feedburner_pro_free/)