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At long last Drupal 7.* is released as the core release... No more RC for us! 

The new Drupal 7.* looks to be a considerable improvement on the already excellent D6.* CMS, notable differences are:

Top trending Php searches on phpclasses.org is out now, click here for full list.

Cheap Server hosting in far away places may seem like a good idea, and it can be, however just remember to set the timezone correctly for the Server and any sites it may be running, if your Php scripts or any others make use of time conversion this becomes more important. For example If a site is to use UK time set the timezone to Europe/London!

What another one?... yes believe it or not, this time with the method used to render stylesheets. Apparently including a reference to css.css in a page and then adding imports to css.css into the css.css file enables a malicious user to hijack a client machines memory allocation. It is not known yet whether this affects IE9, but it is know to affect browsers from IE 6.0 onwards. The moral of this story is to be careful, which browser you use!

A few weeks back I read an article released on 30th November 2010 by Manuel Lemos @ phpclasses. An interesting article, which raised some innovative points. What sparked my interest was in particular the talk of hardware accelerated Php.

We have all heard of Virtual Reality, its that magical place where anything is possible, you can become any one you want to be in any place. This concept can be extended by adding computerised headsets to ensure the user has a fully immersive experience. VR as a technology appeals to many different people and ranges from virtual worlds such as Myst or Second Life to industrial applications such as; product design, urban regeneration and Software development.