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In Case You Missed It... The Week of May 9, 2005
by: Elizabeth Naramore
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May 9, 2005
Let's see what's been happening the past week:
Allan Knowles shows us FlexySvn
If you're interested in switching to Subversion instead of CVS, then you'll want to check out the slick FlexySvn browser Alan Knowles is working on (yes, this thing is cool!). Read about it at http://www.akbkhome.com/blog.php or see it in action for yourself at http://newweb.akbkhome.com/svn.php.
Info from IPC2K5 available online
A number of speakers from this year's International PHP Conference have posted the slides from their presentations:
- Andrei Zmievski's PHP and Unicode and Say "Hello" to PHP-GTK2 slides are available here: http://www.gravitonic.com/talks/
- Derick Rethans' Playing Safe, Dominating the World, and Defending Against Users slides are available here: http://www.derickrethans.nl/talks.php
- Stephan Schmidt's Go OO! Real Life Design Patterns in PHP5 and Component and Event Based Architectures slides are available here: http://blog.php-tools.net/archives/123-PHP-Conference-session-slides.html
- John Coggleshall's PHP5 and Web Services slides are available here: http://talks.coggeshall.org/show.php/soap_adam
- Sebastian Bergmann's PHP5 - The Year After and PHP Unit slides are available here: http://www.sebastian-bergmann.de/en/talks.php
As well, Chris Shiflett has posted his PHP Security talk from a recent NOAA conference: http://shiflett.org/
Oracle launches a PHP Developer Center
The Oracle Technology Network has a new area "for technical information about the use of PHP in conjunction with enterprise-class Oracle technology." There are articles, installation guides, technical and white papers, forums specific to Oracle/PHP, sample chapters from popular books, and downloadable extensions. It's the place to be if you're integrating the two. Simply go to http://www.oracle.com/technology/tech/php/index.html.
Be a Zend VIP
Zend has announced its keynote speakers for the upcoming PHP conference it is sponsoring in October. Rod Smith (IBM), Marc Andreessen (Netscape/Opsware) and Stephen O'Grady (Redmonk) are the initial announced Keynote Speakers, and if you are one of the first 100 registrants to the conference, you can attend a VIP dinner and meet the speakers & Zend big-wigs. For more info, go to http://www.zend.com/news/zendpr.php?id=94 or to register, go to http://zend.kbconferences.com/.
php|architect offers month-to-month subscription
If you're commitment-shy and just aren't ready to give a full year of yourself to php|architect, then you'll be glad to know that now you can subscribe on a month-to-month basis. Read more by going to the official announcement: http://phparchitect.com/news/2191
phpBB 2.0.15 released - security upgrade
phpBB Group has released an upgrade of phpBB which fixes some major and minor bugs, and you are encouraged to download and install if you are using this software. For more information and to read about upgrading/installing, visit http://www.phpbb.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=288194.
phpMyAdmin 2.6.2-pl1 is released
This patch-level release contains MySQL fixes and can be downloaded by going to http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/downloads.php.
Photos from the first PHP Developer's Conference
... have been posted by Zeev Suraski on his blog. If you want to see the minds that spawned PHP, and what they looked like in 2000, go to Zeev's gallery: http://suraski.net/blog/.
PEAR/PECL releases
Latest PEAR releases include:
- File_Archive - File_Archive will let you manipulate easily the tar, gz, bz2 and zip files
- File_SMBPasswd - Class for managing SAMBA style password files.
- Gtk_FileDrop - Make Gtk widgets accept file drops
- Pager - Data paging class
- PHP_Archive - Create and Use PHP Archive files
- Services_Technorati - A class for interacting with the Technorati API
- Text_Diff - Engine for performing and rendering text diffs
- XML_RPC - PHP implementation of the XML-RPC protocol
And PECL releases include:
- colorer - Syntax highlighting
- ibm_db2 - PHP extension for DB2/Cloudscape
- runkit - allows you to replace, rename, and remove user defined functions and classes, define customized superglobal variables for general purpose use, and execute code in restricted environment (sandboxing).
- WinBinder - A Native Windows binding for PHP
- xmlwriter - Provides fast, non-cached, forward-only means to write XML data.
For more information and to download these packages, go to http://pear.php.net or http://pecl.php.net.
See you next week with more news and tidbits from the PHP world!
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