Paul M. Jones

(UPDATE: Fixed the broken link to Solar. Thanks, Justin Patrin.)
After *entirely* too long, I’ve packaged and released Solar version 0.8.0 (devel). I had wanted to release it two weeks ago, but other events demanded priority.
There are lots of changes, so be sure to read the change notes before upgrading. One thing to [...]

Benchmarking call_user_func() and call_user_func_array(), versus using user-defined variable-functions and native functions. The results are surprising only if you hadn’t considered the behind-the-scenes implications of these functions; I, of course, was surprised. ;-)

Joe Stump writes a good MVC overview at OnLamp.com where he’s kind enough to mention my Solar project in one of the opening paragraphs. While I’m thankful for the mention, I want to nitpick a bit regarding code reuse and the single-developer model. ;-)

On the heels of yesterday’s Savant2 release, I have a Savant3 beta 2 release today; you can view the change log on the main page. With any luck, this will be the last beta release of Savant3; if I get no bug reports, I’ll mark it stable (at last!).
In addition, I’ve been working on [...]

This is a minor bugfix release (I was using func_get_args() as a function parameter in one place). Also, I’ve added a new method “eprint()” as an alternative to “_()” for escaping and printing. You can see the change notes and the download and installation pages for more information.