Gather valuable feedback on your designs, artwork, photos,… by simply waiting. Just waiting. For free.

A nice new web 2.0 application, fivesecondtest, provides a platform for images to be “reviewed” by the public (stored at Amazon S3 of course). It’s dead simple: you upload the image and wait. After some time people will have reviewed your image and marked what drew their attention in the first five seconds they saw your image.

Whether it is a screenshot of your site, a fresh mock-up, a (stock) photograph,… you name it and it gets reviewed. All without creating an account or leaving any personal information.

Be sure to review some too!

Edit: use of Calibri font makes it look nice on Windows.

This morning I received SVN authentication requests all over the place. Total panic! I suddenly feel the need to withdraw all my savings.

Ok, I’m exaggerating (just a bit), but it’s no fun if your release scripts are failing because your Zend Framework svn:externals suddenly requires authentication.

Apparently they changed that overnight (for us Europeans) as it worked yesterday. Let’s hope it’s a mistake and they don’t change their policy all of a sudden!

I just love svn:externals…

Edit: and we’re back on the road!

There are a lot of happy people because of the announcement that Microsoft and Nokia will use jQuery in their products.

Count me in!

A quick tip: use a CDN when you include jQuery in your project. e.g.:

http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.2.6/jquery.min.js

As Google states “Once we host a release of a given library, we are committed to hosting that release indefinitely“.

It’s also a good time to thank Yoeri from Yappa who told me about jQuery almost 2 years ago.

Although I’ve only been at FrOSCon one day I was happy to attended some interesting talks. Especially the ones by Sebastian Bergmann about PECL, PHP 5 and future PHP versions.

The most important new feature for the next PHP version will probably be Traits: a possible solution for multiple inheritance (although some may argue that they provide the same functionality & problems). I do wonder if people will actually ever use it as much as they talk about it…

I now also know what Aspect-oriented programming is.

Thanks guys for the great conference!