Archive for October 6th, 2006
PHP Developer - October 6th, 2006
The coordinators for this year’s DC PHP Conference have submitted a reminder for developers out there looking to attend:
Registration is still open for the 2006 D.C. PHP Conference.
Great speakers: Rasmus Lerdorf (who got the PHP project off the ground in 1995), Chris Shiflett, Adam Trachtenberg, Laura Thomson, David Recordon, Elliot White III, Mike Naberezny, Will Fitch, Ben Ramsey, Tony Bibbs, Brian Ashe, Shen Guo and Bram Vogelaar.
Our L’Enfant Plaza Hotel venue is walking distance from the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History, the Air and Space Museum and the new American Indian Museum.
To get the full details or to just sign up right away, head over to the main conference site and get all the details. Pricing starts at $695 USD ($400 for students) and includes two days jam packed with PHP goodness.
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PHP Developer - October 6th, 2006
Graham Charters writes, in this new post on the IBM developerWorks PHP blog today, that the first release of their Service Component Architecture (v 0.1.0) has been released.
We’ve just made the first release of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) for PHP prototype available. SCA allows you to turn PHP classes into Web services by adding a few simple phpDocumentor-style annotations. SCA will automatically generate WSDL for these services when required.
SCA also uses the same annotations technique to allow PHP classes to declare dependencies on other Web services or PHP classes. At runtime it will then ‘inject’ proxies for these dependencies, which can then be used to call the Web services or classes
You can check out documentation for the project and some examples of how it works over on this page and a whitepaper here will give you the full scoop. If you’re interested, be sure to check out the Google Group for the project too.
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PHP Developer - October 6th, 2006
Bothered by the ugly way Xdebug stack traces were turing out, Derick Rethans has created a script to fix that.
I’ve always been annoyed by the way how Xdebug’s stack traces looked liked. So I spend some time on making them look better. I will show the differences according to the following script.
The simple script takes the output and adds a bit of formatting, stripping down the information to make it a bit more clear. Check out the before and after shots to see the difference.
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PHP Developer - October 6th, 2006
Everyone in the PHP community (as is probably true all around the web) is buzzing about the new offering from Google - the Google Code Search. In the PHP community, the ones talking about it so far include:
Check out this handy tool and see what you think. Does it provide too much access to code that needs to stay out of hacker’s hands? Or does it promote the “open” in open source better than most of the tools out there?
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PHP Developer - October 6th, 2006
Ilia Alshanetsky has an announcement on his blog today about the release of the next candidate for the upcoming PHP 5.2 series - PHP 5.2.0RC5.
After 2 weeks of inaction 5.2.0 final release is finally in sight. A few minutes ago I’ve released the last (I mean it this time) release candidate of 5.2.0, RC5. If all goes well a week from now 5.2.0 final will be out ready for use. In the meantime I’d like to ask once again that everyone try this RC, which can downloaded from here.
I don’t think you’d be able to find any major issues or regressions in this RC, but if you do certainly let me know, if necessary RC6 is not out of the question.
The more this new release is downloaded and tested, the faster we all get PHP 5.2 - so get out there and get testing!
The Windows builds have also already been created courtesy of Edin Kadribasic.
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