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Pretty major day in the world of the web, eh?
The PHP development team announced the release of version 5.3.0. This is a major milestone. Here's what I'm most excited about:
- Lambda Functions and Closures
- ternary short cut "?:"
- Optional garbage collection for cyclic references
I'm excited about support for namespaces, but not the particular syntactical implementation chosen.
Also, the Mozilla team announced the official release of Firefox 3.5. Firefox is my browser of choice thanks to the great web development plugins available for it such as:
Version 3.5 looks to make an already excellent browser even faster.
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