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On the Codeception blog there's an introduction to the Codeception tool, a behavior-driven framework written in PHP (in the spirit of Behat).

Ed's recent blog post labeled the The MicroPHP Manifesto got a lot of attention.

Personally I feel like Ed's way of expressing himself feels mostly like the rants of an angry person and not really a way of expressing a clear message.

That is why I appreciate a much saner formulated follow up by Kris Jordan.

In general I totally agree with Ed on the point that we need more decoupled components in the PHP world.

Mike Willbanks has a new post to his blog about a different sort of technique for deploying PHP - building your own RPMs instead of just using the pre-packaged ones.

This opens up a whole world of customization options.

I’ve been building all sorts of RPM’s lately, from vim 7.3 to mirroring the zend server repository and building pecl extensions.

In the PHP world, one might ask why not just build it from source? Well, an RPM IS built from source and then distributed to many servers – we can ensure that we have the same packages on each, we can maintain the same versions and if you’ve read my previous post on Pirum you will know that I also like mirroring PEAR packages.

I have done a few tweets in the past weeks hinting at wanting to create a set of common interfaces for things like logging, caching etc.

Now I pondered this some more and there are a couple of problems which I am not yet sure how to overcome them.

Obviously the goal would be to make it easier to drop in components from one library/framework into another.

PHP 5.3.8 Upgrade, PHP 5.4 beta, Wrong Ideas About PHP - Lately in PHP Episode 15 By Manuel Lemos Another PHP 5.3 version was released.

Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert discuss whether you should upgrade to this new version of PHP, as well if you should try the new PHP 5.4 beta version.

I have just returned from the fifth (and my second) Dutch PHP Conference (DPC).

For the technical staff at Ibuildings the conference is a highlight of our year. Not only do we have a chance to visit the delightful city of Amsterdam, but we also have 3 days of stimulating tutorials and conference talks.

There is the added bonus of being able to meet and exchange ideas with fellow developers from all over Europe and further afield, many of whom are the movers and shakers in the PHP world.

I'm happy to report that Gimme Bar has been running very well on MongoDB since early February of this year.

I previously posted on some of the reasons we decided to move off of CouchDB.

If you haven't read that, please consider it a prerequisite for the consumption of this post.

On the Ibuildings techPortal today they've posted the latest episode in their DPCRadio series (as recorded at last year's Dutch PHP Conference) - Stephan Hochdoerfer's talk Real World Dependency Injection.

Continuing with my post from the other day I will try to answer some of the questions that seem a bit reoccurring.