Archive for May, 2006

Solar 0.19.0 released

Thursday, May 25th, 2006 (08:44)

(Solar, the simple object library and application repository for PHP5, is both a library and framework for developing web applications in PHP5.)
The single biggest change in this release is in the license; we have moved from LGPL to New BSD.
The main additions in this release are project-support related.

The Solar_Docs_Apiref class will read an entire Solar-style [...]

Database access problems

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 (13:13)

Right after I posted last, there was a database hiccup at my hoster. They’ve reset it now. Sorry for the site access delays.

“Do Your Best” Is Not A Plan

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 (11:18)

Don’t be a Dirk: telling developers to “do their best” is not a management goal, it is a way for the manager to avoid the hard work of defining expectations.

Developers and Managers

Tuesday, May 9th, 2006 (11:11)

Do you manage other developers? Then don’t be a Dirk.

Solar 0.18.0 released, and more about testing

Monday, May 8th, 2006 (17:08)

I released Solar version 0.18.0 over the weekend. The biggest change is in the testing methodology (yes, again ;-).

PHPBlox from Zend?

Monday, May 1st, 2006 (21:59)

I just read this article from PHP architect about QEDWiki, and at the end they mention something called PHPBlox. A quick Google search reveals this .swf presentation at Zend Devzone. Anybody know if this is supposed to be a replacement for the Zend IDE, or how it relates to the Zend Framework?