Junction is a new PHP 5 object persistence layer.
Recommended article over at LWN: What every programmer should know about memory, Part 1.
Post by Steve McConnell about estimation experiences in real life.
If you are in the business of creating web sites and applications you might find the following resources helpful:
Apache Ant Homepage
Phing Homepage
Building Web Applications With Apache Ant - Julien Lecomte
Trimming comments in HTML documents using Apache Ant - Julien Lecomte
Improve Your Build Process with Ant - ONLamp
Ant sucks for FTP deployment - What alternatives do we have? - Felix Geisendörfer
PC Perspective has an excellent article entitled Rendering Games with Raytracing Will Revolutionize Graphics that goes through some of the progress made on real-time ray tracing engines and what the future might hold, at least according to Intel. If you don’t know what ray tracing is, the Wikipedia has the dirt as usual.