schlitt.info - php, photography and private stuff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :Author: Tobias Schlitt :Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200 :Copyright: CC by-nc-sa ================================= Blog - Open Source - schlitt.info ================================= - eZ Components workshop in Dortmund - Germany As Derick already wrote, we release the first RC of our new product eZ components yesterday. Beside the unification of the API, we enhanced several components with additional features and refactored smaller parts here and there since Beta2. I feel highly satisfied about how our work evolved in the past 6 month. - 1 of 1000 Since some others already blogged to be within the first 1000 Zend certified engineers, I feel to raise my 2ct, too. I took the exam during the PHP Quebec conference in Montreal last March. I was actually suprised to pass the exam without any kind of preperation, after Marcus, John and some others convinced my to have a try (it was free there, so I took the chance). At least that shows that you should be able to pass the exam with real-world PHP experience. - eZ Publish Conference 2006 - or Norway in summer The call for papers of the eZ publish Conference 2006 (taking place in Skien - Norway this June 21-23) is not closed, yet. - A sensible place for a fluent interface First of all: Happy new year everybody!! - A joyride to eZ Components beta2 About a month ago it's been the time, where we were about to release the first beta version of the eZ components, the new - new BSD licensed - enterprise open source library. A bit under stress (as usual, who doesn't know) we brought out beta 1, missing some refactoring and unification work, testing and documentation improvements. - eZ Components and PEAR Finally we managed to release a first beta of eZ systems' new open source product eZ components. As I'm part of the development team, it's a great pleasure for me to see our work becoming ready after all. The project went quite good from my viewpoint, although it was a bit hard to manage work and university in paralell after the great summer vacation time (we have around 2-3 month of free time here). - WI - [W]riteable checker for v[I]m Jakob Westhoff (one of my usergroup fellows) created a tiny but very efficient bash script to avoid a big annoyance: I'm using "sudo" on my work station to not have the need to completly switch to root for administrative tasks. Still I usually forget to type "sudo" when I intend to edit a file with is not writeable for my current user. I asume people with similar environments know that problem. WI ([W]riteable checker for v[I]m) wraps around VIM on startup and checks the file permissions. If you may not edit the file, WI asks you if you want to start VI through sudo or quit. - Life from the PHP Conference Life from the PHP Conference - More 3D fun with PHP Kore Nordmann today had his first talk at a PHP Conference (here in Frankfurt) and presented his first PEAR class Image_3D. Kore fixed lots of stuff in the past weeks and added lots of funny things (like a ASCII art driver for producing 3D animations on the shell, new objects like torus and cone,...), which we released yesterday. - Distributing your PHP applications with PEAR I recently uploaded my slides from the workshop I held yesterday here on the PHP Conference in Frankfurt. This time I did not provide the usual introduction into PEAR, which I did for the last conferences, but a complete example how you can package complete PHP applications using the new features of PEAR 1.4.