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 === - eZ Components 2007.2 release candidate Yesterday we brought out a new version of the eZ Components full bundle, which candidates to become the next stable release of our enterprise component library on December 17th. - Out now: eZ Components book - win a free copy! Since about a week, Kores and my first book is being shipped. As you can see below, we already got some examples and hope that everybody who ordered in advance got their examples by now, too. If you don't, stay tuned they should arrive soonish. We are both absolutly amazed by the priniting quality and the overall impression of the bookl. Many many thanks again to Stephan Mattescheck, our lector at Galileo Computing, for his great support and the amazing work of the whole team! - At IPC2k7: Hands on eZ Components The yearly International PHP Conference in Frankfurt (or like I usually say: the family meeting) is approaching rapidly and I'd like to invite you to join me in my Hands on eZ Components full day workshop. The session will take place on the first workshop day, which is Sunday the 4th of November, and will provide 6 hours of bundled eZ Components knowledge to you. - Professional-PHP Online Training by DWP On November 20th dynamic-webpages.de will start with the first "Professional PHP" online training. This series of online sessions offers you "24 hours of PHP knowledge, from professionals, to professionals". Topics covered in this series of talks are: - At IPC2k7: WebDAV will come over you... The new semester has right begun, which basically means that the semester vacation as it was named earlier (now the lesson free time) is over. While that meant a lot of exams and work on the book for Kore and me at first, we had time for some vacation and finally to take care about a brand new eZ Components project: - Funny speed considerations The fact that type save comparisons (ala ===) are faster in PHP than the normal comparison operator (ala ==). The reason for this is simply, that PHPs loosly-typed-ness-auto-cast-code is not even touched with ===, AFAIK. So, if you did not know, yet: - Do your docs suck? A week ago Sebastian pointed out an article on LinuxJournal, which talks about documentation coverage. By the question "Isn't that exactly what tobyS' tool does?" I felt remembered, that I wanted to blog the little tool I wrote for eZ Components a while ago. Since this blurb was lurking in my blog for another week, you get my writings a little more belated. - My first book! More than 4 month of intensive planning, writing, coding, correcting, drawing, rephrasing, more writing,... to keep it short: A huge lot of work and much more even than we expected, after so many people told us, that writing a book would be a huge lot of work. Anyway, although writing was hard beside university, normal work, conferences, girl friend, and other commitments, Kore and me managed to have the world wide first eZ Components book in the final correction phases right now! *jump``*`` While Kore already wrote a chapter for a collaborative work, this is the first book for us 2, which we write completly on our own and for me even the first real contribution to a book overall. - I love namespaces While I have been waiting for namespaces support in PHP since the early days of PHP 5, the recent proposal by Dmitry looks very promising to me. I really like the way, namespaces are defined and used. Especially the use of "::" for namespaces. This way of handling them looks much more intuitive than any other operator proposed so far (yes, I know, characters don't matter). I did not dig into internals of this proposal, but the post about it seems to be well-thought and the concept looks promising. - The final run: PHP@FrOSCon Just to remind you, if you did not propose a talk yet for PHP@FrOSCon, be sure to hurry! The call for papers will end this Friday, so take your heels and propose something interessting!