schlitt.info - php, photography and private stuff ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ :Author: Tobias Schlitt :Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 08:35:38 +0200 :Copyright: CC by-nc-sa === PHP === - The "Zauberpony" has a blog Sebastian Nohn (alias the "Zauberpony") finally started blogging about PHP. Welcome to the Planet Sebastian! - eZ Components article in php|architect Derick wrote an article about eZ components for the latest issue of php|architect. It deals with the goals for the project as well as architectural decisions that we took while developing this components library. - Kore has a blog My friend Kore Nordmann (the developer of PEAR::Image_3D) finally managed to relaunch his private website. It now is in english language and also has a weblog integrated. Therefore: Welcome to the planet, Kore! :) - eZ Components talk at PHP usergroup Frankfurt I'll be giving an overview on the eZ components at the PHP usergroup Frankfurt meeting on March 16th. If you want to get a life introduction, have questions or want to give feedback, feel invited to join this event! - Will Oracle buy Zend? I just stumbled over this rumor. The article states, that Oracle is planning to take over up to 3 open source companies, including JBoss and Zend. Let's see, where this leads... - I like some peoples attitude... This moring someone queried me on IRCNet: - Software patents in Europe My friend Zak remindes us, that this topic is still dangerous, so keep eyes and ears open! The devil is not banned, yet... - We go stable: eZ components 1.0 2 weeks after our release candidate, I am very proud that we released eZ components 1.0 today. - "emerge" eZ components Sebastian announced that eZ components are now available in Gentoo's portage system. This adds one more posibility for you to install the components. So, we now have 3 methods in place (if you are a lucky Gentoo user), of which the new one is the most comfortable: - Abject "sponsored link" practice on PHPFreaks (update -2-) I still recieve lot's of comments on this issue, which all have basically the same content, affirming my opinion. The most common sense is, that abusing the content created by somebody else to put ads into it (in the way it is done, by modifying the content) is a real shame and has to be considered equal with spam. Today an anonymouse reader pointed out, that they actually violate the OPL, under which the PHP manual is provided. The OPL says "The modified version must be labeled as such." and "The person making the modifications must be identified and the modifications dated.". Both points seem not being fulfilled on that site.