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:Author: 		Tobias Schlitt
:Date:			Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200
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- PHP and IBM

  Last year a posted an april fool on that topic, from which now a very small
  bit becomes reality. Hopefully not the bad part. ;)

- PEAR 1.4 at the horizon

  Especially Greg Beaver and of course many others have done a great job and
  the implementation of PEAR 1.4 will possibly reach a new milestone by the
  end of this week 1. Of course this version of the PEAR core brings a huge
  lot of new features.

- Net_FTP 1.3.0 stable

  I recently release Net_FTP 1.3.0 stable. After 2 RCs and just one little bug
  for RC2 within a month I decided to go stable with Net_FTP 1.3. Because of
  this there were just some minor changes to the files (e.g. updating
  documentation regarding PEARs new docblock standard) and a major addition,
  the package.xml version 2.

- heise.de down

  Since this morning the webserver on heise.de seems to be down. This is very
  uncommon, since heise is the most popular IT news page overall and is
  usually used by a lot of computer specialists for internet connection tests,
  because of it's rare downtime. Of course, this can be done the moment, too,
  because the host heise.de seems to be up. Non the less, I really miss the
  news.

- Going to Amsterdam

  I recently got notified to be speaker at the International PHP Conference in
  Amsterdam this year. I'll have a powerworkshop ("XML and Web services with
  PHP5 and PEAR", in cooperation with Stephan Schmidt) this year and a normal
  session (PEAR and PHP5). See the abstracts below:

- Call for protest: Against software patents -2-

  I recently updated my anti software patents demo page (see here) in respect
  to the newest incidents.

- Going to Quebec

  I recently received the acception for my proposal for the PHP Conference
  Quebec 2005. I will give a double session (some kind of workshop) on PEAR
  and how to use it. I'm very sold to be part of that conference, since I've
  never been to Kanada before. :)

- Trackbacks on PEARWeb

  Inspired by a blog entry of Sebastian Bergmann, I implemented trackbacks for
  PEAR packages on PEARWeb.

- The future of PEAR::Net_FTP(2)

  PEAR::Net_FTP was initially planned as a simple object oriented wrapper to
  the native PHP FTP functions, with some additional features. This goal has
  been reached more or less since the first stable release on 2003-07-15. The
  upcoming version 1.3 (RC2 actual) implements the following features:

- Happy new year!

  To all you PHP lovers and all you other geeks out there! :)