Monthly Archives: September 2009

Solar 1.0.0alpha3 Released

The alpha3 version of the Solar Framework for PHP5 has been released; you can get it from the usual locations. Of note, this will be the last alpha release of Solar; I expect to have a beta released within the … Continue reading

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Forty Percent!

Big news (for me anyway): my employer, OmniTI, is allowing me to spend a minimum of 40% of my paid work time on the Solar Framework for PHP 5 (plus additional time as duty allows). The project remains open-source under … Continue reading

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US Life Expectancy: Best In World?

Apparently “yes”, when you control for car crashes and homicides. One big reason our life expectancy lags is that Americans have an unusual tendency to perish in homicides or accidents. We are 12 times more likely than the Japanese to … Continue reading

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