I’m shocked – how little respect for life must someone have to enter a street like that?

More images about the ethnic clashes in Urumqi, China.

Well, everyone is talking about “the cloud” and cloud computing.. After SOA and Web 2.0 the cloud is the buzzword of the year 2009.

But what is it really, this “cloud”?

Well, Apple very well described in in a recent news announcement:

That’s it basically – it’s servers + virtualization with a new marketing name attached to it….

After the really really bad Laptop Hunter ads Microsoft finally published something that is really worth watching:

PHP 5.3 has just been released!

I’m especially impressed by the namespaces and the great, JavaScript-like implementation of Closures – no new syntax to learn here. And the developers also show humor regarding the newly implemented goto support…

Overall a great release with long-awaited features and cleanups, let’s hope the providers update their installations quickly!

Read the full release notes.