Paul M. Jones

Last night, I released version 0.24.0 of Solar, the simple object library and application repository. Read on for change notes, and some new administrative notes (we have a bug tracker now :-).

I just got a note from Dhwani Vahia that I passed the Zend certification exam for PHP 5. Woohoo! :-)
Many thanks to the folks at PHP Architect for making the test available free of charge at php|works. That’s twice now I’ve been able to take it on their dime (although the test [...]

I had the good luck to share a cab back to the airport with Wez Furlong after php|works. Wez had presented a new talk about how to work with email properly (jokingly subtitled “Not PDO” by everyone there), and was curious to know how it was received. I replied that I liked it, but struggled [...]

The slides from my php|works talk are now available as a PDF file. I’m going to try to create an audio version after I get back from the conference.

I’ve noted before that I’ll be presenting at php|works in a couple of days. This entry gives a little teaser about the presentation, in hopes of drumming up greater attendance. (The presentation subtitle is “Project Planning in One Lesson.”) Read on for more.