PHP
PHP 5.2 ajaxified
PHP 5.2.0 was released a few weeks ago. Apart from the usual bigger, better badder there are two small additions that I think are worth mentioning.
A new extension for JSON decoding and encoding enabled by default.
Hooks for tracking file uploads.
These features aren’t competing for the heavy weight title in the release notes. Still, having these [...]
New help desk application using Zend Framework
Every now and then I sit down to take a closer look on various PHP frameworks to see if it is something I would want to use. For some reason I have never actually used any of the frameworks I have investigated. Too stubborn I guess. A while ago, when I was working on an [...]
New conference coming up
Expo-C in Karlskrona, Sweden, have always been a treat. The last conference was held last spring and focused on agile principles and test (behaviour) driven development. Language wise it was great. Java, Ruby, C#, Python and even Visual Basic had their slots. One thing was missing though. My favourite language PHP. After the conference I [...]
Back from vacation
I have had a great and relaxing vacation and came back to work yesterday. Still it is somewhat weird that after four weeks of vacation I only had time to take my sailing boat out for the first time yesterday evening. It was wonderful – slowly sailing around the nearby islands in the inner archipelago [...]
New design and off for vacation
I have finally pulled myself together and updated all the Smarty templates for dotvoid.com with a new design. It is not by far finished and there are lots of empty areas to fill, and adjustments that needs to be done as well as a cleanup of faulty comment counts. But I have had these templates [...]
Expo-C and Behaviour Driven Development
I have just spent two days with a collegue at the conference Expo-C in Karlskrona, Sweden. The first day of the conference was a treat. Dan North from Thoughtworks had a whole day on the topic “Health Factors for Agile Development”. A whole day of agile discussions without one single powerpoint slide. Well spent time. [...]
PHP streams and http 1.1 gotcha
I have a class that I wrote some time ago that is called URLImporter. It’s simple, does what it is supposed to do and thus makes my life easier. Essentially it helps me fetch URL resources – mostly dynamically generated data from password protected extranets that require me to use HTTP POST.
Up until recently this [...]
A PHP 6 overview
I haven’t had much time to follow the discussion around PHP 6 the last few months. Finally I took a half an hour to read up on what will happen with PHP come version 6. It was interesting reading and most of the things I really look forward to.
PHP 6, it seems, will make the [...]
The international PHP Conference
It’s almost a week since I left the PHP conference in Frankfurt. At first I was quite happy with it. It was really nice to get down there and talk to so many nice people. I had very interesting chats with Kaj Arnö, VP of open source community relations from MySQL and Jeremy Johnstone from [...]
Busy – taking a pause
I have been way too busy the last couple of weeks. I’m working on a flashy new portal as well as my old content management system Firesite CMS. In Firesite I have always used a rather limited but ok wysiwyg editor for html content authouring. In a recent project I realized that the editor just [...]
