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Marco Tabini's Blog: 5 PHP 5 features you can't afford to ignore
posted Tuesday April 29, 2008 @ 17:06:45
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
Marco Tabini has posted his list of what he considers five features of PHP5 that you "can't afford to ignore" when doing your development work:
Despite the fact that you may not have a choice in the matter, upgrading comes with a number of bonus new features that can help you write better code and gain access to new functionality that required a fair amount of hacking in previous version. Here's a quick list of 5 personal favourites.
The feature to make his list are SimpleXML, JSON/SOAP, PDO, the Standard PHP Library and SQLite. Each has their own bonus feature(s) included too for a little extra incentive to check them out.
tagged with: php5 feature list ignore simplexml json soap pdo spl sqlite
IBM developerWorks: What's new in Zend Framework V1.5
posted Thursday April 17, 2008 @ 09:33:35
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
The IBM developerWorks website has a new article/tutorial posted today about the new features and functionality that's included with the latest release of the Zend Framework, version 1.5.
The popular open source Zend Framework just got some slick enhancements. Learn what's new in V1.5 and how upgrades, including Zend_Form, Zend_Layout, and Zend_View, enhanced support for GData Web services, and improved Ajax support can help PHP developers easily roll out cutting-edge Web applications.
They walk through each of the new components (or features in them) like Zend_Form and Zend_Layout/Zend_View with examples included. There's also mention of other miscellaneous updates like the addition of OpenID and InfoCard support, a LDAP authentication module and an interface with Google's GData service.
tagged with: zendframework new feature component zendform zendlayout zendview
PEAR Blog: First PEAR bug triage over!
posted Thursday April 03, 2008 @ 10:26:34
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
According to this post on the PEAR blog, the first PEAR bug triage is now over:
PEAR's bug tracker hit the 600+ open bugs mark a month ago. [...] So with 600+ open bugs (not including the feature requests), we had to do something. [...] The logical step was to hold our own bug smashing event and see how it works for PEAR.
Back on March 22nd and 23rd (Easter weekend) they hunted for bugs. Several developers showed to help out and many bugs were fixed and they managed to bring the number of open bugs for PEAR down to 547 with the two days of work. There were some milestones reached too:
Thanks to the triage, we are close to reaching two important milestones: Closing bug reports with lower bug ID than 1000 (1 bug left!) and 2000 (5 left).
tagged with: pear bug triage close problem issue feature event
Zend Developer Zone: Zend Framework 1.5.0 Preview Release now available
posted Tuesday January 29, 2008 @ 10:26:00
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
As the Zend Developer Zone points out, the preview release for the next stable version of the Zend Framework has been posted - ZF 1.5.0 Preview.
This release showcases features that will be introduced in the final 1.5 release. The intent of this release is to give our users access to the latest features in Zend Framework and to improve the overall quality of the production release through the feedback we receive.
Some of the new feature in this upcoming release include:
- New Zend_Form component with support for AJAX-enabled form elements
- Infocard, OpenID, and LDAP authentication adapters
- Partial, Placeholder, Action, and Header view helpers for advanced view composition and rendering
- New Zend_Layout component for automating and facilitating site layouts
It also adds functionality to currently existing features and fixes several bugs in the process.
tagged with: zendframework preview release download feature bugfix
Helgi's Blog: New features and changes in pear.php.net
posted Tuesday January 08, 2008 @ 12:50:00
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BY CHRIS CORNUTT
Helgi has posted about the updates that have recently been made to the PEAR website (pear.php.net) to help correct some issues and bring in some new features.
I just did a new release of pear.php.net which has a bunch of new features and bug fixes, most of which you can see here.
Some of the updates include:
- One column design instead of the 2 column design
- Usage of the YUI CSS reset + fonts
- The package list on http://pear.php.net/packages.php doesn't highlight deprecated packages anymore
- Now developers can see bug reports by unconfirmed accounts
- The RSS feeds now contain new line breaks!
- Patch uploading during ticket creation now works
He also specifically mentions some of the feedback he's gotten on certain things (like the new layout, the CSS of the site and the DES passwords) and explains some of the rationale behind their update/use.
tagged with: pear website update feature change layout password css pear website update feature change layout password css
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