external dependencies

I have a long backlog of things to write about. One of those things is Varnish (more on that in a future post).

So, over these Christmas holidays, while intentionally taking a break from real work, I decided to finally do some of the research required before I can really write about how Varnish is going to make your web apps much faster.

Pavel Shevaev has put together what he calls "yet another Ant alternative" - a tool written in PHP to create project related tasks in a style that matches the Ant and rake methods.

Fabien Potencier has written up a post detailing a PEAR channel server manager he's developed, Pirum.

Vid Luther has come up with this guide for getting the latest PHP release - version 5.3 - installed and working on an Ubuntu (Jaunty) linux installation.

Anyone building up a project with many dependencies - and in the Ruby community, with so much functionality wrapped up in gems and plugins, it's hard to imagine not having external dependencies!

- must face the issue of managing the situation in source code control.