Right on the heels of Google introducing their web APIs for the general public to use, some PHP developers jumped all over it. We now have a nice SOAP_Google class for PHP that interfaces with it just perfectly. They even have example code at the bottom for use with the class. This is a really, really cool thing - not only can you pretty much just drop this into any application, but the possibilities are endless as far as what you can do with the results. Bookmark this one, I have a feeling it's going to be one of those "well-used classes" (like the Cybercash one was...).
Thanks to PHPEverywhere for the link.

And, of course, a week just wouldn't be a week without the latest Zend Weekly Summary. One of the big ones in this week's edition is that they are now planning to include GD in the future distributions. It looks like it will pretty much get absorbed into the future releases, with the PHP team working to make it's code better. Some other highlights include PHP 4.2.0 RC3, getting things working with Apache 2, and the suggestion of "stream notification handlers" (like functions that happen when something connects to a remote script).

Ever wondered just how much of that website that you slave over is really yours? What kind of recourse do you have if someone clicks along and decides that they like the content on your site a lot more than theirs and heists the code right from the page. What happens then? Well, A new article over on the SitePoint Webmasterbase that talks about Intellectual Property and what you can do about it. It gets into some detail about copyrights, patents, and trademarks, and what is covered by each. If you do any kind of a serious website, please please *please* at least put a copyright on it. As long as you have a note on everything that says it's your copyrighted work, it's legally yours. No fees, no lawyers - just a note at the bottom. (Bad flashbacks to Communication Law from this one...)