Fall season is traditionally conference season in the PHP community. This October, you will have the chance to catch all three partners of thePHP.cc -- Sebastian Bergmann, Arne Blankerts, and Stefan Priebsch -- at the following events:
PHP NW Conference 2011
Beware of the dark side, Luke!
Tutorial by Arne Blankerts
Somehow you met the impossible deadline, your project is online and you now deserve some time to relax. Other than you and me though, the internet does not sleep and your application is under...
On the Zend Developer Zone today there's a new post from Cal Evans about the SQL ServerJump In Camp that's happening near the Microsoft offices in Seattle. It's an event bringing together developers from 10+ projects all around the PHP community to work on PHP itself.If you follow Microsoft and PHP then you aren't surprised that Microsoft is yet again getting PHP developers together to talk. However, if you don't pay attention, you may be surprised at how interested Microsoft is in PHP and the projects...
On the Ibuildings techPortal blog today Ed van Beinum has posted a summary of the first day of this year's Dutch PHP Conference including some of his experiences and mentions of the sessions he attended.He talks about the keynote from Aral Balkan (a clear favorite among the attendees) and some of the choices he had to make for sessions. He ended up attending a talk on Solr, Zend Framework on the command line, automated deployment, CouchDb applications and the Zend Framework 2.Keep an eye out for more to...
Padraic Brady has a new post to his blog asking you, the reader, for your suggestions on how to architect a distribution system for the PEAR2/Pyrus components.With the idea of PEAR2 and Pyrus, I had hoped to see a renewal - the advancement of a PEAR architecture for the 21st Century. Instead, and this is just my opinion, PEAR2/Pyrus were a relatively simple iteration on a very old theme. [...] If the PEAR ecosystem has a failing, it is one of staggered evolution. Over time it has picked up additional...
On DZone.com's PHP on Windows section today Krzysztof Kotowicz has a new post talking about a file path injection exploit in PHP versions lower than 5.3.6.Since the thing went public before new PHP version has been released, I present full details of the latest PHP vulnerability I reported - together with some sweet demo exploit. The issue was found with fuzzing being part of my recent file upload research. And I still have some more to show in the future :)The issue, described in more detail here on...
One often vaunted feature of Android are the Home screen widgets. The official definition of a widget, taken from the Android documentation is: App Widgets are miniature application views that can be embedded in other applications (such as the Home screen) and receive periodic updates. In practice, widgets are generally only used on the Home screen. Widgets can also be interacted with, reacting to touch events, although there are some limits on what can be doneSee the original article here: BuildMobile:...
Latest PECL Releases:
pecl_http 2.0.0dev2
APM 1.0.0
translit 0.6.1
DBus 0.1.1
Just when you thought you'd had enough football (or maybe not enough, in some cases) FIFA, the international football organization revealed the logo design for the next world cup which will take place in Brazil in 2014. The new design entitled a€oInspirationa€¯, was the winning submission, chosen from 25 entries. The judging panel included famous Brazilians, model Gisele Bundchen and author Paulo Coelho. The logo was designed by Sao Paolo-based agency Africa .See more here: DesignFestival: Behind the...
My first paid freelance job fresh out of design school was creating a brochure for a magician. Having moved beyond performing for children's parties, he began doing a€omagic with a messagea€¯-shows designed to teach kids how to avoid drugs and strangers. The ideal venue for his show was high schools, and his target market was high school principals. The brochure was to be part of his marketing collateral.Besides being an excellent magician, he is also a savvy marketer. Instead of images of himself...
Given that Dan once ran RubySource and I'd already put a face to the name at one RORO meeting a couple of weeks earlier, it was stellar to actually get to know him better over the weekend. Additionally, I felt the title of Unplugged was justified, as he was playing acoustic guitar through the weekend. He's as friendly as he is tall, which is taller than average, so he was happy to answer some questions for us! Tell us a some things about yourself, Dan. I started programming using BASIC when I was six, I...
What do you get when you mix developers from more than 10 different PHP based projects with the Microsoft team that write MS SQL Server? I don't know either, but if you stay tuned this week and I'll try to describe it to you.
WordPress's popularity owes much to it's easy administration panels. Unfortunately, it can still be daunting for non-technical users such as your clients. At best they'll require a little training, hand-holding and support. At worst, they'll play around with plugin installation, edit some theme code, then expect you to clear up the mess.I've written a number of a€oMake WordPress Easier for Clientsa€¯ articles (see part 1 and part 2). In those examples, code was placed in the theme's functions.php file....
On the Test.ical.ly blog there's a new post looking ahead to the next release of PHP, 5.4, and what it could mean for some of the popular tools out there - specifically Symfony and Doctrine.It shouldn't be long until the first alpha version of PHP 5.4 will be released and with it there will be a lot of new features such as array dereferencing and traits to name but a few. What does that mean to the roadmaps of Doctrine and Symfony?He mentions the experiments that are proposed on the Doctrine project that...
On the "PHP and Me" blog there's a new entry from Pinpin Bysma showing how to use the PHP-based deployment tool Phing to update your production website via an FTP connection, automated by a Phing build.If you're working on a PHP project, like with any other project, probably comes a time when you need to "build a new release," e.g. update the production web site with the latest version of the code. And doing the whole thing manually isn't the most efficient way to get things done, especially if you're...
Recently Microsoft sponsored a contest where the entries were PHP applications built on the Windows Azure platform. Brian Swan has posted an interview with Ben Waine, the latest winner of the contest who created an application called the "Twitter Sentiment Engine" that analyzes the sentiment towards various search terms on Twitter.I recently had a chance to catch up via e-mail with Ben Waine, winner of the 2011 PHP on Azure contest. [...] I only followed the contest from a distance while it was...
The Zend Developer Zone has announced the bug hunt days for June happening the 23rd through the 25th:For those who haven't put the reoccurring event in their calendar, this announcement is for you: the Zend Framework Monthly Bug-hunt is here again! Next Thursday, Friday and Saturday (the 23rd, 24th and 25th of June), we'll be hosting our monthly bug hunt. For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we organize the community to help reduce the number of open issues reported against the...
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I was recently accused on the Zend Framework Contributors mailing list of having a€ostrong feelingsa€¯ towards Pyrus (i.e. the PEAR Group's Installer/Packager for PEAR2) and not in a positive way. It's a fair description. PEAR is, putting it lightly, a very old architecture which makes it very resistant to change. With the idea of PEAR2 and Pyrus, I had hoped to see a renewal - the advancement of a PEAR architecture for the 21st Century. Instead, and this is just my opinion,...
Sebastian Bergmann has a new post to his blog talking about some of the future plans for better code coverage metrics for PHP applications (not just the statistics that we have now as generated from PHPUnit runs combined with Code_Coverage PEAR package and Xdebug).Xdebug currently only supports what is usually referred to as Line Coverage. This software metric measures whether each executable line was executed. Based on the line coverage information provided by Xdebug, PHP_CodeCoverage also calculates...
Latest PEAR Releases:
Net_Growl 2.3.0
HTML_QuickForm2 0.6.0
HTTP_WebDAV_Server 1.0.0RC6
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