Are you going to PaWS? If you have a blog, then ping or trackback this posting and let me as well as other bloggers know that you are there. I’ll be there 😉
Sam Ruby once did the same for OSCOM 3, he called it an experiment in Ridiculously Easy Group Forming.
The timetable of the PHP and Web Standards Conference (PaWS) in Manchester/UK is up. ZZ/OSS CEO Sandro Zic will give two talks:
One session deals with the ZZ/OSS Installer (see also the project’s Web site).
The other session is titled Managing the Semantic Web. A similar talks has been provided at OSCOM 3 at Harvard by Sandro. Find the OSCOM slides online to read what he will basically talk about in Manchester.
Maybe, there’s microbiotic life on Mars – but there’s definitely life on Planet PHP: An aggregator of Weblogs of well-known PHP developers, including the ZZ/OSS Weblog. No need to browse every single Weblog, just visit Planet-PHP and you know what the PHP aliens are doing in PHP universe 😉
Go to http://planet-php.org.
Jan has released “lighttpd a secure, fast, compliant and very flexible web-server
which has been optimized for high-performance environments”. The advanced features include:
- load-balanced FastCGI (one webserver distibutes request to multiple PHP-servers via FastCGI)
- custom errorpages (for Response-Code 400-599)
- virtual hosts
- directory listings
- streaming CGI and FastCGI
- URL-Rewritung
- HTTP-Redirects
- output-compression with transparent caching
Find more information in English in the README or in German at the project website.
If you want to write an extension for PHP5, use PECL_Gen and read the documentation – it makes writting extensions much easier.
In case, you have not heard about PECL yet or not yet trusted in it, read Wez’ posting to the internals mailinglist. In summary, PECL will make release management and installation of PHP extensions much smarter:
- PECL provides a way to keep your extensions self contained and allows you to keep your own release cycle.
- In addition, the packaging systems allows you to mark the package with explicit, versioned, dependencies.
- It is very easy to our users to install and upgrade these “pickled” extensions.
The ZZ/OSS Installer is based on the same packaging technology as PECL and makes release management and installation of PHP applications just as smart 😉
The OAI data provider PEAR::OAI developed by ZZ/OSS and implemented with PHP in PEAR fashion is now listed in the tools section of the OAI Web site.
The PEAR group recently published New Guidelines for BC breaking releases. The idea is simple, for example one variant would be:
Old API: MyPackage-1.2.tgz
New API: MyPackage_2-0.9.tgz
Zak and Georg held a presentation on the new PHP MySQL extension (mysqli) in Hamburg. I’ve attended this presentation where they summarized all the infos about the latest development. Their slides are available online – a must-read for all PHP developers with lots of useful tips!
No, this posting is not about Remote Procedure Calls, it’s about the “island” I currently spend my vacation: Hallig Langeness. I quoted “island”, because geologically, a Hallig is not an island as it consists of sand and has been created by the sea, which would also wash it away over time, if humans had not “fixed” the coast with stones.
Right now, it’s only Zak, Georg Richter, and me who are on Mayenswarft. Derick was with us for some days, as well as Christian and Sabine. Ulf and Jan visited us for a weekend.
Today is our last day, the tide is high, the wind strong and cold (althoug Zak, as a Canadian, feels comfortable with the temperature).
Pictures are available online from Derick and Christian.
We got Internet here (3 persons sharing 56k), no light on the streets (err, “streets”), 120 inhabitants, thousands of birds, one restaurant (yammi food!), no bakery, no supermarket, no speed limits, no police.
Back on track tomorrow, crossing the Baltic Sea with a ferry, and then making our way back to civilization…
Sandro Groganz 