Mevio Developer News

Nokia Europe: “The Nokia Podcasting application allows you to find, subscribe to and download podcasts over the air with your Nokia N91. After downloading a podcast, you can listen to or watch it when you want.” Even cooler, PodShow and Podcast Alley are listed as top-level directories. More on Podcast Alley.

Google AJAX Search API: “Put Google Search on Your Web Site”

A useful reference on character encoding issues and PHP.

DevCast 5 is up, featuring yours truly, AC, KevinO, the SDK and a cornucopia of Golden Tickets!

Sim Willison posted notes from his talk about the Yahoo! UI Library, a BSD-Licensed “set of utilities and controls, written in JavaScript, for building richly interactive web applications”.

We’re starting to get our heads around Subversion as we set up the modules SDK area. It’s dead simple and well documented. Interesting contrasts from CVS. I don’t mean the obvious stuff like atomic commits or repository maintenance. I mean, for example, the way tagging works. In CVS you mark a moment in time by applying a symbolic name to a set of file/version pairs. But in Subversion the individual files do not carry version numbers. Instead, versioning is applied to the entire repository, and this version number is bumped up on every commit. As a result, a tag in Subversion is simply the version number or release number at the time of the snapshot. Since worded names tend to be more memorable than numeric names, Subversion administrators typically use a place metaphor, and create tags by copying the project to a named subdirectory of tags. This is accomplished using svn copy. Another interesting contrast — tags are just a convention in SVN, and are committable unless you do some extra permission setting on the directory. On the to do list: try out merges.

Creative Commons has posted a Podcasting Legal Guide.

Adam Curry announces on DSC 384 that “as of today, every single song that is played on the Source Code from the Podsafe Music Network will be made available for purchase at music.podshow.com.” Today’s selection by Griddle may be previewed and purchased here.

DevCast 3 featuring “database sourceress” Erin O’Neill is up! I busy setting up the Golden Tickets, only just got a chance to blog it now. Phew.

Scott Johnson has published an OPML reading list of serious PHP folk over on FuzzyBlog. Really Simple Syndication has more about reading lists. You’re going to keep this list updated and current, so we’ll always get the latest, greatest PHP info, right Scott?