With the release of PHP 5 beta 2 comes a textfile explaining the new OO features with sample code.
Update: Here is the new link to the Zend Engine 2 features, the above is broken (why has it been removed from php.net?).
Month October 2003
If Linux were BSD …
> >If Linux were BSD there would be no suit, simply because there would
> >be no competition.
>
> I agree wholeheartedly with this point. And there wouldn’t be thousands
> of volunteers if they thought they were providing free labor for
> others, particularly development houses that then released products
> only for the Windows platform. Fortunately, we’re not in that
> dimension.I hadn’t thought of that. That might be part of the reason why the GPL-based projects are so much larger than the BSD-based projects.
via license-discuss@opensource.org
Update: Zak has commented on the “If Linux were BSD” thesis. He pointed out that there are many non-GPL projects just as “big” as well known GPL projects. This is a remarkable note by Zak, considering that he works at MySQL AB, whose Database is GPLed and itself one of the “big” FOSS projects.
These kinds of discussions remind me of ideologic discussions during the cold war: is capitalism better then communism? Today, now that the cold war is over, we realize that beyond the east/west antagonism, many problems have been hidden specific to a single country or area.
Ideologic discussions that try to create a linkage between how “big” a FOSS project is and the license it adopted, tend to move our attention away from the real problems the FOSS community has.
The PHP Scalability Myth
Jack Herrington is brave: he argues that PHP is at least as scalable as Java, and he does it on O’Reilly’s ONJava Website… His arguments are quite obvious:
Still not convinced? Consider JSR 223, the effort to turn PHP into the front end for J2EE by porting it to Java. If PHP on top of Java is scalable, then why isn’t PHP on top of C?
Software Design Anti-Patterns
On Wikipedia, some don’t do software design patterns are listed.
"Interactive Microcontent"
t’s one of my main interests to create a Web-based application with a WYSIWYG editor that allows working with parts of content, so called microcontent. Imagine integrating text or images from other Web sites into your new content object. This way, knowledge work can become visible online, e.g. showing in a SVG graph the content parts that a document integrated.
Jon Udell has published “Interactive Microcontent” with some thoughts and especially solutions on this aspect.
From the New to the Next Economy
Thomas Fischermann argues in his Die Zeit article that after the end of the New Economy hype, a phase of serious and long-term business is going on in the IT sector. He quotes Arthus C. Clarke, saying that the short-term effects of a new technology are often overestimated, while the long-term effects are being underestimated.
Open Source CMS Survey
Karim Yaici has published the results of his Open Source CMS Survey he conducted in the realm of his dissertation.
via OSCOM participants mailinglist
Jabber "Middleware" with PHP
Chregu writes about a Jabber Daemon implemented in PHP that communicates with the Jabber server and writes messages to a MySQL DB.
Sandro Groganz 