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 ================================= - Upcoming conferences After some conference-free time over the summer, I'll attend 2 conferences until the end of the year: - New PEARs for the community On September 20th Greg Beaver (for a longer time now the main man behind the PEAR Installer) announced the stable release of the new PEAR Installer Version 1.4.0. Yesterday Gerg updated the release to an even more advanced version 1.4.1 which solves some minor bugs and adds some cool features for PECL developers. I think now it's time to write some introductional words about the new feature release of our Installer, which will steer the project into a completly new direction, since it's now possible for everybody to set up his own PEAR channel server and to distribute his applications comfortably through the PEAR Installer. - They must think I'm cheating... PDV (phpDocumentor for Vim) ran into the top 10 PHP Vim scripts on vim.org within 2 from it's first publishing... and I did not even vote once... that's a bit scary, isn't it? - PDV example I just realized that I missed to show some examples for my phpDocumentor for Vim plugin. So, here they are: - Comfortable PHP editing with VIM -4- It's nearly 4 month ago now, since I last blogged about my .vimrc (the main Vim config file) and the recent enhancements I added to it. This time, I go a step further as in the last 3 parts: I wrote my first own Vim script. :) Beside that there are as usual some other great enhancements and tips I collected over the past 4 month and I already have an idea of how to proceed and what I need more. But first, I'd like to give a brief changelog between version 1.3 and the last version: - Do you hate modelines? I personally hated them for years now and never really managed to build one on my own or find satisfying information on the net (especially regarding widescreen resolutions). You know, XFree86/Xorg modelines really suck. Thanks to Matthias Hopf (who I met on Linuxtag) and Jakob Westhoff (who reminded me today) I now about the tool I ever wanted to have: $ gtf. :) - Welcome to pearadise.net I think the time is right to publish the new project I recently worked on. Please welcome pearadise.net - The PEAR channel portal. pearadise.net enables you to register your PEAR 1.4 compliant channel server and have it's data aggregated in a unique web interface. By now the pearadise.net portal provides access to the PEAR channel itself and Greg Beavers test channel (where he also provides the channel server). - Leaving Norway again... Sadly I'll leave the eZ Systems headquarters in Norway tomorrow direction Dortmund again. It really was an amazing time for me in all aspects: Work, people, country and whatever else matters. - dot.eckspee.com Aaron recently told me that he owns the domain eckspee.com (spelled like the operating system of a well known company or like the acronym of extreme programming). Since my nickname is for years now dotxp, he redirected the domain dot.eckspee.com to my website. LOL. I like it. ;) Thanks Aaron! - So called "News on PHP6" I personallly do not concider it wise to spread out the issues currently discussed on the PHP internal development list to the public as some (mostly not really in PHP's development itself envolved people - as I am one, too) did in the past days. What currently happens is a brainstorming on what eventually could be possible for PHP version (maybe) 6. Sadly some websites have published that information, what partly got taken over by reliable news pages. While I do agree more or less completly with the points raised by Rasmus, I concider it harmful to bring those discussions to the wide public, which might spread FUD to actual PHP users.