Our latest project, a fully searchable database of the UK and Ireland’s richest inhabitants, is now live.

Find out how last year’s contenders have faired, identify the wealthiest people in your region and more at the Times Online website.

The PHP development team have officially announced that support for PHP4 will cease at the end of 2007. With PHP6 on the way this news is hardly surprising, but it’s a big deal for most sysadmins and PHP programmers given the adoption rate for PHP5 currently stands at less than 20%.

For those that haven’t upgraded already, take a look at the PHP4 to PHP5 migration guide.

We’re currently working on a new web presence for Heavenly, scheduled for launch in October.

activeCollab is an impressive open source clone of Basecamp. As you can see from the screenshot, it looks remarkably like Basecamp, even down to the navigation being nearly identical.

This application has a great deal of potential. I’m a huge fan of Basecamp - whilst activeCollab is clearly missing some of Basecamp’s headline features (most notably Writeboards), the fact that it’s free and installable on a third-party server is a real boon. As it’s open source we’re sure to see a host of user-generated add-ons and improvements integrated in the near future.

The release of activeCollab is sure to encourage (force?) 37signals to innovate further to maintain their user base.