V iola Private Equity , an Israeli PE fund with $164 million under management for technology buyouts, has announced a $7 million investment in Zend , the leading provider of open-source and commercial solutions based on PHP web applications. According to Linkedin , Zend has a headcount of 130. Watch this space. MORE >>

Many of the categories are wide open. Many of the categories are wide open. open source. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteWeb. Channels. ReadWriteStart. ReadWriteBiz. ReadWriteEnterprise. ReadWriteCloud. ReadWriteHack. ReadWriteMobile. ReadWriteHack. Archives. Twitter. Facebook. Infographic: What Tools Developers Actually Use. MORE >>

Closely Aligned Functional Needs The most common reason that a language and platform is chosen is because there's an existing set of (often open source) functionality that you can tap into that aligns closely with your functional needs. For example, you may have content management and community needs that closely align with Drupal. MORE >>

This theme also utilizes some open source javascript to create a fun scrolling feature that is easier to see than to explain. Register the new widget in your themes function.php or widgets.php file by adding the PHP code below. Call your new widget by adding the PHP code below to the appropriate file, here the single.php file. MORE >>

Standing Cloud’s standard application catalog includes 100 open-source and commercial applications; its Platform-as-as-Service (PaaS) capabilities support multiple programming languages, including Rails, PHP, Java and Python, and a wide range of cloud service providers and orchestration software systems. MORE >>