A quick look at what the day brought

Jirka Kosek pointed out an inaccuracy in the post
UTF-8 — The Little-Endian and Big-Endian Problem. A byte-order mark
is unnecessary in UTF-8. RFC 2279 specifies byte order in UTF-8. Microsoft is said to have added the BOM, though it would make sense
in UTF-16, for example.

PHP 5.0 for the third time

For better or worse, Michal Burda has turned his attention to the new PHP 5.0 for the third time in quick succession.
Here’s what’s on the agenda.

• Static methods
• The __get(), __set() and __call() methods
• The __autoload() mechanism

Portlets II — The reference implementation

In the second part of their brief
introduction to the portlet specification, Stefan Hepper and Stephan Hesmer present the reference implementation, known as Pluto.