Phix v0.14 is now available from pear.phix-project.org. What’s New In This Release Snapshot versions of components – not ready to release a stable version of your component, but still need to publish your component to your PEAR channel for testing? You can now set the project.snapshot property in your build.properties file, and get non-stable packages [...]
The Oracle Instant Client 11.2.0.3 for Linux is now available on OTN. I know many users will upgrade sooner rather than later to get the “latest and greatest” release. However, if your PHP application uses oci_password_change (or its old alias ocipasswordchange), you should upgrade the client libraries (Instant or normal “full” client) and the Oracle [...]
Earlier today, Dries committed a patch that adds two Symfony2 Components to Drupal: ClassLoader and HttpFoundation. On its face it’s a fairly simple patch; the new code in it is maybe a dozen lines. But it’s an important part of a larger shift within Drupal to better embrace the modern web, on the server as [...]
As you may or may not know, I’ve been working with Magento lately. In the past few months, one thing I’ve found that I needed is a stock .gitignore file for when making extensions. Haven’t found one so I made one on github and will also post here for anyone else in need. I’m still [...]
Latest PEAR Releases: Services_Twitter_Uploader 0.1.0 Net_URL2 1.0.0 Net_URL2 2.0.0 HTTP_Request2 2.0.0
The free Mysqlnd replication and load balancing plugin now offers load balancing and lazy connections independent of read write splitting. This makes the plugin attractive for MySQL Cluster users. All nodes participating in a MySQL Cluster can serve all requests, they all accept read and write requests. No statement redirection needs to be done. An [...]
I am truly delighted to announce that “my” book is published. Technically it’s really “our” book since I had the pleasure of co-authoring with friends and PHP rockstars Davey Shafik and Matt Turland. The book is “PHP Master” and it’s a broad-ranging text covering a series of topics that we felt were relevant to PHP [...]
In my previous blog post I was brainstorming the possibility of collaboration between various frameworks to define a set of common interfaces. But I kind of failed to explain why this would be useful. Herman’s “rebuttal” made this omission on my part quite clear. He and other critics of this idea pointed out that PHP’s [...]
The Bakery (a CakePHP site) has announced the release of CakePHP 2.0, a major shift in the framework with some very large changes to bring it up to the level of other full-stack frameworks currently offered for PHP. The CakePHP core team is very exited to announce a major jump in the version numbering. CakePHP [...]
