An release of the next generation of Php has been officially released, with 5.4.0 being the first stable GA release. 5.4 release previews have been available for some time and have been an interesting insight into the direction of Php.

If like me you love to get your hands on the latest techs and "fiddle" with them, then click here to head on over to the Php downloads page.

I have summarised some of what I think are the best features being introduced in 5.4 and also some examples of how to use them.

I know this isn't really a Blog post, and I promise to tidy these up at some point, to include a technical quick quide and troubleshooting section for posts like this....

One of our 1 and 1 Servers was having a problem sending mail via Postfix to email addresses, which had the same domain as some websites hosted on it. So for instance we have an email sent from the server hosting http://www.xyz.com to orders@xyz.com. The problem was that the mailbox was handled by 1 and 1, not the web server hosting the domain.

The annual Php Zeitgeist is now out, if you want to see what has been trending for Php developers in 2011 click here to read more.

I have just released my first Mobile Application, a Solitaire Game written in HTML & Javascript and compiled using Phonegap. It is a solitaire game, which allows a user to take a picture using the mobile device's camera to uses as the table background. Users can also submit their scores to a leader board to be ranked against their friends.

The app is up on the android market place! Next app under development is battleships with cross device 2 player via an application server....  I'll keep you posted.

Just finished my latest Facebook offering, a Christmas app for a well known online stationary company, whihc a user must like to enter the quiz.... it looks great! See what kind of a Christmas party goer you are - 387 likes already, that's a promising start.A post Christmas update on the facebook App...It hit 1500+ likes yay!

Just contributed to my first Stackoverflow.com Q & A session and I'm sure it won't be the last, it feels good to give something back! A discussion about using Mongo within Codeigniter click here for more.