Archive for July 17th, 2007
PHP Developer - July 17th, 2007
The latest episode of the Zend Developer Zone’s podcast, PHP Abstract, has been posted. This time it’s hosted by Chris Hartjes on the subject of “Opinionated Software”.
Today’s special guest is Chris Hartjes. Chris has been building PHP applications since 1998. Currently employed as a Senior Developer for the Cake Development Corporation, Chris has been labeled as an “agent provocateur” within the PHP community. He contributes to open source projects, gives lectures on programming-related topics and tries to share what he’s learned via his blog.
Opinionated software entails things like frameworks (his specific example is with the CakePHP framework’s ActiveRecord functionality) that has a sort of agreement with the developer that things are going to be where it expects them (allowing for less time configuring and more time developing).
To hear more about this sort of software, grab the latest show’s mp3 or subscribe to the feed in your aggregator of choice.
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PHP Developer - July 17th, 2007
The Bakery has six new articles/tutorials posted today on subjects ranging from working with LDAP out to Access Control:
Check out The Bakery for more great articles and tutorials (as well as case studies on sites using the CakePHP framework).
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PHP Developer - July 17th, 2007
Jacob Santos makes some of his own comments about the recent PHP5 adoption talk that’s been going around in the PHP community (spurred on by comments made by Matt of the Wordpress project).
Matt brings up some good points. What might be limiting PHP 5 adoption, could just be the lack of interest in developers. […] Up until reading his rant, I’ve lived in a box where everyone I’ve talked to, used and enjoyed PHP 5 and its vast extensions. Developing in PHP 5.0 was uneventfully, but you learn to appreciate PHP 5 with the core inclusion of PDO with PHP 5.1. PHP 5 is not without annoyances. In the core developers attempts to “better” the language, they made changes that broke code that previously worked.
He looks at a few of the items for debate surrounding the move from PHP4 to PHP5 including the extensions that come bundled with PHP5, solving the register_globals issue, and a brief mention of the Standard PHP Library.
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PHP Developer - July 17th, 2007
Builder.com.au has picked up on “the death of PHP4″ story that’s been making the rounds in the community ever since the announcement late last week:
The still popular version 4 of PHP, an open-source scripting language that lets servers create customised Web pages such as online catalogues, will lose its support after a seven-year run. […] The announcement came on the third anniversary of the launch of PHP 5, and project programmers said they want to focus on the upcoming PHP 6. PHP 4 was released in 2000.
They mention some of the issues that this will cause with hosting companies and developers alike and includes quotes from Andi Gutmans, Matt Mullenweg and Rasmus Lerdorf.
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PHP Developer - July 17th, 2007
Stoyan Stefanov points out that the CMS nomination awards have now been opened for public voting (of which he is one of the judges of the PHP category). The event is put on by Packt Publishing:
The Packt Open Source Content Management System Award is designed to encourage, support, recognize and reward an Open Source Content Management System (CMS) that has been selected by a panel of judges and visitors to www.PacktPub.com. Following on from the success of 2006, Packt has expanded the Award for 2007 with an increase in prize money and the addition of new categories.
There are five different categories this year:
- Overall Winner
- Most Promising Open Source CMS
- Best Open Source PHP CMS
- Best Other Open Source CMS
- Best Social Networking CMS
You can nominate your favorite CMS from the Packt site for each of the categories. The nominations only last until August 31st, so get in there and get your vote in!
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