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William Candillon's Blog: phpAspect presented at the EPFL

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:34:40 -0500

William Candillon has has posted about the project he was working on for the Google Summer of Code - phpAspect - and a talk he was invited to do on it.

Last week I was invited by Christelle Vangenot to talk about phpAspect and some of the new features I developed during the Google Summer of code.

If you'd like to check out the slides presented at the talk, check out this PDF.

PHPAudit.com: "Dog Days of Summer" Sale

Thu, 27 Jul 2006 06:42:23 -0500

As mentioned by php|architect today, PHPAudit is having their second annual "Dog Days of Summer" sale going on now (through August 11th) with discounts on their PHPAudit and ionCube products.

This year, a further 5% discount is being offered on our ionCube Encoder & PHPAudit bundles, with prices starting at just $223.24 for a complete encoding, licensing & distribution package - saving over $75 on the usual separate selling price. Standalone PHPAudit Perpetual licenses are also reduced by 20%, starting from $79.99.

If you'd like to try out one of their products to see the great quality, you can download a "lite" version of PHPAudit and give it a shot.

Jonnay's Blog: Googles Summer of yawn.

Wed, 26 Jul 2006 05:38:29 -0500

On his blog today, Jonnay looks at the Google "Summer of Code" (or as he calls it, their "Summer of Yawn"), specifically at one project, the PHP Macro Preprocessor.

This (as described) sounds exactly like a rewrite of the C preprocessor, which one can work with fairly easily in a PHP environment. To see this duplication of effort on something so boring and useless makes me question just how much PHP is its own language, versus a Frankensteins monster of language clones; see PHP 5's object system for a perfect example.

He comments that maybe the developer should have come up with a different way to do it instead of making what appears to be a sibling of the current processor. He also suggests that PHP developers step up and create methods for the current compiler to make using things like design patterns much simpler than they currently are.

Ligaya Turmelle's Blog: Summer of Code

Tue, 18 Apr 2006 07:10:25 -0500

From Ligaya Turmelle's blog today, there's a new post concerning the announcement that Google has made for this year's "Summer of Code".

Rasmus posted to the internals mailing list that Google is once again holding it's "Summer of Code" and he implied in his note that PHP is going to eventually be one of the mentoring organizations. Outstanding!

She also mentions another comment by Lukas Smith concerning a wiki that he's started for enhancements to the PEAR project, found here. You can also get complete details on the "Summer of Code" from this page on Goggle's site.