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OK, Have you gotten this (or similar): PHP Warning: PHP Startup: It is not safe to rely on the system's timezone settings. You are *required* to use the date.timezone setting or the date_default_timezone_set() function. In case you used any of those methods and you are still getting this warning, you most likely misspelled the timezone identifier. We selected 'America/Los_Angeles' for '-8.0/no DST' instead in Unknown on line 0 I am running PHP 5.3.0 on my Windows XP, and have spent the better part of the day to try to get rid of this warning and finally managed to do it. How, you say? The breakthrough came after I have read this instructions from the PHP web site Changes in PHP datetime support . Here is part of it: Since PHP 5.1.0, there has been an extension named date in the PHP core. This is the new implementation of PHP’s datetime support. Although it will attempt to guess your system’s timezone setting, you should set the timezone manually. You can do thi...

Amazon came out with a new smaller 6″ diagonal Kindle. It goes for $259 and has international wireless coverage. Check it out at Amazon.com .

Following this post on Flare Data Visualization library, here is one more entry for visualization . Includes Data , Information, Concept, Strategy, Metaphor and Compound Visualization, Enjoy!

Today I have read this very interesting article on the American Management Association web site about the need of communicating clearly and avoid empty words. You can read the business speak article here.

Flare is an ActionScript library for creating visualizations that run in the Adobe Flash Player. From basic charts and graphs to complex interactive graphics, the toolkit supports data management, visual encoding, animation, and interaction techniques. Even better, flare features a modular design that lets developers create customized visualization techniques without having to reinvent the wheel. View the demos and sample applications to see a few of the visualizations that flare makes it easy to build.

As this article says all the right buzzwords are part of a newly unveiled Simple API for Cloud Application Services . It’s an open-source initiative that currently includes Zend, Microsoft, IBM, Nirvanix, Rackspace and GoGrid as the founding members. (No Google and no Amazon, however.) Here you can read more : Zend, Microsoft, IBM join forces to simplify cloud-app devlopment for PHP coders | All about Microsoft | ZDNet.com .

Anyone, that has searched the web for anything related to PHP, sooner or later must have come across the web site of Tony Marston . It is very rich source of ideas and information, and it is worth visiting any time you have a moment to spear. One of the topics that web developers tackle often is the issue of providing accurate and flexible access to the web site users. One way to do this is by using RBAC or Role-Based Access Control system. This system is most ofter implemented with a database, but this is not a requirement. Recently I looked again at one of Tony Marston’s articles about RBAC implementation for PHP and I thought, I share the link with you. I hope it will help or inspire somebody. Enjoy!