François Zaninotto has just released a symfony plugin that wraps up jQuery. Allows some very cool stuff and much nicer than the jQuery plugin I started writing! Also very good to see that François now has a blog - definately one to add your your feed reader!
I’ve just uploaded my first bbPress plugin to the bbPress subversion server. It’s very basic - it censors posts for against a list of words you specify. It’s going to be used in the new Edge Hill “Hi” Applicant community which launches soon.
There’s a few other plugins in development for the Edge Hill forum which I should be able to package up and release along with some stuff I’ve written for symfony. All copyright Edge Hill University of course but released for the benefit of other bbPress users.
Check out the Censor plugin and the bbPress plugin browser.
Via 1 Pixel Out.
At long last symfony 1.0 is out. I’m currently running the last Release Candidate but will upgrade this week. Get it while it’s hot!
I’m really enjoying having had a day off on Friday - it seems like I’ve been off for a full weekend, but I’ve still got Sunday tomorrow! Fantastic stuff! Had a pretty good game of Squash with Smiler today but still lost 3-2.
My copy of the Definitive Guide to Symfony arrived through the post on Friday. It’s published under the GNU Free Documentation Licence and went online last week so I’d already scanned through the content but I got a chance to have a proper read through over the weekend.
There’s usually something slightly disappointing about PHP manuals - I find they either go into too much or not enough detail, or do things differently to how I would but I’ve not found that to be the case with symfony. The book is well structured with chapters covering everything from installation to extending the core classes and optimisation. I was very impressed with the sample chapter they released as a PDF and the rest is of a similar high standard.
There’s not much point in me going through everything that’s in the book - it’s free online for everyone to read - but I would recommend getting a paper copy anyway as it’s very well put together. Buy online from Amazon.com and support the symfony project or buy from Amazon.co.uk and the commission cheque will go to Ormskirk Scouts 
Quite a cool video all about the evolution of the Web:
Via Technosailor.