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NYPHP

2008-06-22T22:20:54Z

I'm gonna attend NYPHP next Thuesday (Tuesday, June 24th at 6:30pm sharp) and look forward to meeting some folks from the NY PHP scene - is anyone else in the area and coming? Their website tells me that Bruce Momjian (PostgreSQL core developer a...

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RoundCube 0.1-stable release

2008-03-04T13:13:37Z

After more than two years of development we're proud to announce the first stable version of RoundCube Webmail. It's not as feature rich as we'd like it to be but the released version is considered to run stable for a productive environment. T...

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PHP Fatal error: Non-static method FOO::FOO() in (...)

2008-03-03T00:25:00Z

After bumping up the PHP 5.2.x on one of our servers Friday night, I got reports from some of our clients that certain websites would not work anymore. After investigating this problem, I found that most all of the my problems were in Joomla, Mamb...

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Stallman lecture

2008-02-22T07:02:25Z

Most of us use a lot of free software everyday, the GPL looks familiar, but how is software classified as free (versus non-free) and where did it come from? So I had the maybe weird pleasure to see this lecture two days ago. I went primarily not ...

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HTTP_Session2-0.7.0 released

2008-02-06T14:56:02Z

Wee - rapidly approaching the 1.0, I kicked out a the 0.7.0 release of HTTP_Session2 (tag) today. What's new you ask? Memcache support Many fixes in the containers Documentation fixes Thanks to Thorsten who contributed the Container fixes and t...

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Who needs it?

2008-02-04T14:57:12Z

Following the discussion around PDO2 and CLAs in the PHP world, I read this email (from Derick) today: Why not just do the "right thing" (tm): - Have PDO2 in core, including all the drivers that don't require a CLA (MySQL, and assume also pgs...

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PHP & PEAR things

2008-01-26T19:00:00Z

Here are some updates from my personal PHP-world from January of 2008. Writing tests Tests are hip, tests are cool. Lately everyone does it. So I looked at phpUnit and phpt. So far phpt wins for simplicity, though I am sure phpUnit has its use ...

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phpChecklist

2007-12-06T14:01:05Z

UPDATE, 2007/12/07 8:00 AM: Make sure to check the comments, James and Adam offer valuable advice! For a couple weeks now we kept on saying that we need a checklist of what we need on a server in order to make the site run - now since we setup th...

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File_S3

2007-12-05T13:36:55Z

Just added my File_S3 proposal to PEPR. Check it out, give it a wirllllll - gimme feedback: http://pear.php.net/pepr/pepr-proposal-show.php?id=519 So basically what this package allows you to do is, you can open/write/delete files and directorie...

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HTTP_Session2 0.6.0

2007-12-02T11:07:27Z

This morning I rolled another release of HTTP_Session2 and uploaded it to PEAR. So what can you use HTTP_Session2 for and what's new in this release? The usage question was pretty simple for me, at my current one and only gig we run four web serv...

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