php development

Over on the PHPClasses.org blog today there's a new post looking at the next major upcoming PHP version (5.4), what it comes with and why you might want to make the upgrade.

Kevin Schroeder has come back around and has posted a new tutorial to his blog showing how to connect PDT to the Zend Developer Cloud (the "PHP Development Tools" extension for the Eclipse IDE).

Together with my friends and partners from thePHP.cc, Arne Blankerts and Stefan Priebsch, I will be giving an "Advanced PHP Development" training in Montréal in March.

Bradley Holt has a new post to his blog today talking about the experience he's had with testing the PHP 5.4 alpha1 release, just posted from the PHP development group.

This week I was in Chicago to present two talks at php|tek:

In a recent post to his blog Kenny Katzgrau talks about why PHP was a ghetto (both on the quality front and the public perception) but how things have turned around and the language is being perceived as stronger all the time.

2010: Yet another great year for PHP By Manuel Lemos 2010 was an year full of interesting happenings for the PHP development and its community of developers.

I have been using Vim as my primary PHP development environment for several years by now. Inspired by two blog articles (Coming Home To Vim, Vim Toolbox, 2010 Edition) I recently read I decided to cleanup my Vim configurations and create certain new macros for recurring tasks.

One of these macros is the ArgumentRewrap plugin, which instantly saves me a lot of time.

Yesterday saw the release of the two latest versions of PHP in both the 5.2.x and 5.3.x series - 5.2.15 and 5.3.4.

Here's a bit from each release announcement.

For 5.2.15:

The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate availability of PHP 5.2.15.

This release marks the end of support for PHP 5.2. All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.

This release focuses on improving the security and stability of the PHP 5.2.x branch with a small number, of predominately security fixes.

For 5.3.4:

In a new post to his blog Marco Tabini has voiced his opinion on the decision made by the PHP development group to set the end of life of the PHP 5.2.x series with the latest release (5.2.14).