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Article originally from rooJSolutions blog
Well, for the first time in a very long while I had to post to the PHP core developers list last week, unfortunately the result of which was not particulary usefull.
The key issue was that 5.3.7 accidentally broke is_a() for a reasonably large number of users. Unfortunately the fixup release 5.3.8 did not address this 'mistake', and after a rather fruitless exchange I gave up trying to persuade the group (most peo

The Plot to Kill PHP MySQL Extension By Manuel Lemos PHP core developers are planning to kill the PHP original MySQL extension.

If you are using MySQL in your PHP applications for a long time, this may seriously affect you.

Read this article to learn what this means in practice and what you can do about it.

Is PHP 5.4 really coming soon?

- Lately in PHP podcast episode 12 By Manuel Lemos Slowly, PHP core developers are moving on towards the release of PHP 5.4.

On the Zend Developer Zone Cal Evans has posted some encouragement about sharing your own thoughts about the post from Dried Buytaert about the future of PHP and Drupal.

As Dries says in his blog:

Hardware Accelerated PHP, PHP 5.3.4, PHP 5.4 hold off, mod_PageSpeed and AJAX 2 - Lately in PHP podcast episode 7 By Manuel Lemos On this episode of Lately in PHP podcast, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert discuss the proposal of using video card GPUs to accelerate PHP.

A little more than a half year ago I announced my retirement from PHP core.

Since then I have directed my focus elsewhere like Symfony2 and not the CMF project. I do not regret the decision.

The main reason to step down was that it was just a too taxing up hill battle to move PHP towards a more open and transparent development process against the inner circle who preferred things to stay as they were back when PHP was by far not as popular or relied upon.

This is what I had to say back then:

According to this new post on the PHP Unconference Europe site, they've officially announced their next event happening in February 2011 (the 19th and 20th).

On the PHPMagazine.net site there's a new article about PHP user groups and some of the resources that can be used to help find one in your area.

Once again php|architect hosted the php|tek, a yearly event held once again in Chicago.

Tek’s reputation is that of being the most community centered conference amongst other php conferences, true to its reputation this year’s edition promoted various social activities and gatherings apart from the usual conference activities.

A few days ago I announced my retirement from PHP core via twitter and the internals mailinglist.

Actually I have always felt a bit weird calling myself being part of "PHP core" since in all the years I have never added any code to core, actually I have only removed some code as it was being moved to PECL.