“At last month’s PyCon in Washington D.C. several developers of the Twisted network application framework gave presentations. (Papers are available on the Python wiki.) In some ways, it was Twisted’s big debut. Many attendees have made positive remarked the presentations. Once obscured, Twisted is stepping into the light.” [1]
[1] http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/2003/4/24/pythonnews.html
Finally, the PEAR Package Manager works on Windows. Check out the PEAR Weekly News [1] for more information.
Joachim Breitsprecher from our partner company d-serv told me about this interesting article[1]:
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Does an organization have anything to gain from .Net?
Despite a vaguely defined purpose, no track record and several known risks, organizations are starting to implement projects based in .Net. Carmine Mangione delves into the .Net enigma and explains why jumping on the .Net bandwagon – like blindly adopting any technology without first weighing the pros and cons – could potentially sink your organization.
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We fully agree with the author that despite the hype concerning SOAP, WSDL & Co., these technologies are currently too imature to be used in reliable software infrastructures on a broad scale. Furthermore, we are very concerned with the latest decisions of IBM and Microsoft to leave the W3C standardization gremium for Web Services. It seems like the good old HTTP/URL mechanisms are still the best way to go, because the level of abstraction offered by the REST model[2], is much more convenient and manageable than Web Services.
[1] http://www.linuxworld.com/go.cgi?id=742092
[2] http://www.ebuilt.com/fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm
“We’ve established the php|architect Grant Program with the purpose of providing financial support for the PHP-related open-source projects that have the potential of bringing the greatest benefit to the PHP community in general.
On June 30, we will announce the assignments of two $1,000 grants to as many projects selected among those who will have entered into the program.”
php|architect is a magazine for PHP programmers.
“PHP5 is coming closer and closer, and with that the Zend engine2.0 will change on how PHP handles OOP. To be ready for this I have made a overview of the new features that will be available when PHP5 finally arrives.”
This is worth a read if you wonder what will come with the new PHP version: http://www.phpvolcano.com/eide/php5.php
Sandro is now member of the PHP development team with access to the pear and peardoc CVS – hooray 😉 His PHP email address is ordnas at php dot net. You wonder why his user name is “ordnas”? Well, read it backwards 😉
From php.net: “The members of the Hungarian PHP community announce the first Hungarian PHP Conference which will take place in Budapest, on Saturday March 29th, sponsored by several international and local companies. The conference offers an entirely free one-day activity with several presentations addressing basic and advanced topics, as well, exclusively in Hungarian. Moreover, a five kilobyte-limited PHP contest has been started to discover the most talented PHP programmers in our country. The program includes the first session of the so-called PHP Division which will be established with the set purpose of representing the community itself and promoting their interests in any national business and official phorums.”
Sandro is happy that PHP has growing momentum in Hungary – he spent a year in Hungary during his University studies. Congratulations and thanks to Goba for making the conference happen!
It seems like Christian Stocker found a way to raise the reputation of the PEAR class library project with his recent proposal: “I made a proposal to the pear-dev mailinglist about PEAR Foundation Classes (aka PFC). The main idea behind it is to provide some kind of badge to well-established, well-reviewed, well-written and well-documentated code within PEAR.” Find more information at Christian’s blog entry.
Joachim Breitsprecher ported the IBM Websphere Portlet system to PHP. The alpha version has today been committed to CVS. The project homepage resides on Sourceforge: http://sourceforge.net/projects/phportlet.
The Script Running Machine (SRM) will be optimized. Maintainer Derick Rethans sent the following TODO list to the SRM mailinglist:
– Make connection handling Multi-threaded
– Port the extension to ZE2
– Implement timers
SRM is a PHP extension that does all sort of persistent storage for PHP. This storage can be simple variables for applications, but also objects, and even running objects called Bananas (similar to Java Beans). For more information see the website dedicated to SRM.
Sandro Groganz 