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The past weeks I finally had some time to invest in the DMS library again, so i got busy with a few things.

I also had to fix a big problem which had gone unnoticed to me, so i have to thank Mr.

Guilherme Blanco for pointing it out.

Sadly this means a BC break, so please follow and make adjustments.

Rafael Dohms has a new post to his blog about some of the lessons he learned attending this year's PHP Benelux conference both from the perspective of attending the conference and having been at several conferences around the world.

After hearing about how great PHP Benelux Conferences were I finally made it over to Belgium to check it out, and i was impressed.

To catch you up on the new, I moved to Amsterdam last december and thus had the chance of attending the conference which is now 2 hours away on a train ride.

Rafael Dohms has an interesting new post to his site today looking at a library he's developed (inspired by the Symfony Validation library) to help filtering values with rules defined in annotations.

Rafael Dohms has posted a review of a book from Ivo Jansch and Vito Chin - "PHP Development in the Cloud", a guide to some considerations about running PHP applications on cloud-based platforms.

The companion website to PHP Development in the Cloud is at cloudphp.net.

The website contains the source code of examples in the book and other related resources.

There's also a list of PHP PaaS that might be useful if you're looking at migrating to these services.
Also, thanks to Jason and Rafael for the great reviews:

"The book provides an excellent overview of what the cloud is and isn't, and then how PHP developers can leverage it in our applications."

Cloud computing is finally reaching a point of maturity and leaving its early “hype” years behind. Ivo and Vito do a very good job of bringing the topic into a PHP developer’s world in a very concise and objective manner, without leaving important platforms and concepts behind.

Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:

• Rafael Dohms' Blog: Problem Solving technique #1: Taking a mental break
• Michael Nitschinger's Blog: Understanding the Lithium Router - Part 1
• Sebastian Bergmann's Blog: PHP Project Wizard
• ZendCasts.com: Unit Testing Doctrine 2 Entities
• Jim Plush's Blog: How to Auto Create Issues i

Rafael Dohms has posted a new tip for developers (and really anyone else that has to concentrate on mentally challenging tasks all day) that could sometime help you break through that wall you've hit in your code - take a mental break.

Recently Facebook implemented a new and more secure way of creating test users for your applications using the new Graph API.

This new resource creates test users per application, allowing the developers of these apps to login as these users and test out their app’s functionality without using their own accounts and throwing test information into their live activity feed, this makes it very easy and clean to test new applications.