Hello, Goodbye

Anew year is upon us—and quite a few interesting things have already happened. We just published our first book, for example. The Zend PHP Certification Practice Test Book, which I co-wrote with John Coggeshall, has just been unleashed on the PHP community with (if I may unleash some personal pride) extremely good results. In a separate—but far more important— piece of news, PHP was named “language of the year 2004” by a site that tracks language usage in the development community. PHP 5 continues to plow along quickly and efficiently, with a new point release scheduled for release soon that will introduce some much-anticipated new functionality....