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If you spend a lot of time on the Internet you will almost certainly have come across one of the memes that appeared this year.  So as a round up of the years events I thought that I would do a list of the best memes of 2008.

But first, what is a meme?  The term was created by biologist and evolutionary theorist Richard Dawkins in 1976 to describe a unit of cultural information that acts like a gene.  A good meme will start off as an idea, which people will send to their friends.  This is then copied and changed into other themes, sometimes quite different form the starting point. It can remember the “all your base are belong to us” thing from a while back then you get the idea.

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It has been a long time coming, but it is finally here: the PHP Development Tools for Eclipse (PDT) have reached v2.0! We mentioned a few weeks ago that the project was going into release candidate overdrive in the run-up to its proposed release on Dec 29th, well, it well and truly did that. It even made its predicted release date! That has to be an achievement in open source development!

So, what can you look forward to now? Well, a whole raft of new snazzy features, split between various parts of the system which makes up PDT (such as the Web development tools and dynamic languages core behind it all). As it now runs in Eclipse 3.4, you can utilise the brilliant new JavaScript editor, a much improved code assist feature and support for all the new little bits and pieces which are lurking around for the current Eclipse base.

It remains to be seen what the big killer features will be for this new version, but from what I have experienced of it so far, it seems a much more stable and solid base from which PDT can blossom for the future. This all means better features, more often - which is never a bad thing!

You can grab the all-in-one package here, so hop to it!

Not only do I personally run a few blogs, but I also contribute to and maintain the Just Search blogs.  So when a new version of Wordpress comes out I have to organise updating between 10 and 15 blogs.  What normally happens when a new version is released is that I read the release notes to see if there are any security issues that have been fixed.  If there is then I always update as soon as I can, otherwise I will usually leave it for a week and watch the blogosphere for any news of problems.

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In a recent post I gave details on an SEO experiment to see how the rankings change with time. Well, the results are in and are presented below:

Graph 1. Cheap Flights

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