Microsoft has presented version 4.0 of its .NET Micro Framework at the Professional Developer Conference (PDC). The framework is being released as open source software under the Apache 2.0 licence.

"This is actually pretty straight-forward if you’ve got things set up properly. I had a hard time at first, because I had the “sites” framework enabled but I wasn’t using it the right way.

"Halcyon is a interesting new Web app framework by Matt Todd, written in Ruby. What makes Halcyon interesting is that while it's very small and fast, as many of the Web app framework newcomers (such as Sinatra) are, its focus is entirely on using JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) for communications to and from the server..."

"As I promised after the Avi Bryant interview, here’s a great conversation with Adrian Holovaty, well known creator of the Django web framework written in Python..."

In the lead-up to KDE 4, Amarok will be undergoing a number of large changes both under the hood, and cosmetically with the user interface. I managed to interview a developer, Jeff Mitchell, to talk about the things changing in Amarok from the 1.4 stable branch to version 2.0, including the playlist redesign, the context view and the new web services framework. Read on for the interview.

Zend Framework has attracted contributions from 230 active contributors, both individual developers and company-sponsored committers, including from Google, IBM and Zend Technologies. Pre-release versions of Zend Framework have been downloaded more than one million times.

This week we interviewed Izzat Sabbagh Rodríguez, leader of the Capaware project, a multipurpose 3D virtual world development framework, sponsored and used by the government of the Canary Islands (Spain) and local companies.

PHP 5 CMS Framework is a new book from Packt, which will take users through the creation of a working architecture for a PHP 5-based content management system. Written by Martin Brampton, this book includes extensive discussion of the design issues, and how to overcome them in the framework.

"...The syndication framework is used to add syndication feeds to your Django project. [...]I decided to dig into the source of the syndication framework contribution in an attempt to better understand exactly what is going on under the covers..."