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Tuesday, 3 July 2007 | News
PHPUnit 3.1.0 Released
PHPUnit is a member of the xUnit family of testing frameworks and provides both a framework that makes the writing of tests easy as well as the …
Tuesday, 3 July 2007 | News
4th Major eZ Components Release
In a quick pointer from Derick Rethans, the eZ Components development team has put out the fourth major release. "This new release comes with two new components …
Monday, 2 July 2007 | News
IAM-XLS: PHP Class for Generating XLS
IAM-XLS is a PHP class for generating an XLS file. Alternatively, it can be used for performing a query dump and sending it to the browser as …
Saturday, 30 June 2007 | News
SVN for PEAR2 Source Code Management
A common request for PEAR is to use SVN instead of CVS for source code management. Joshua Eichorn says that the PEAR team is implementing this suggestion …
Friday, 29 June 2007 | News
What Should Go Into the PEAR FAQ?
The PEAR group is soliciting comments and suggestion on what should go into a mini-FAQ that they plan to develop for newbies to PEAR. "New developers need …
Friday, 29 June 2007 | News
Weekly PHP Roundup [25 June-29 June]
Rumours are circulating that MySQL aB is looking at an IPO. While Alan Knowles provides the scoop on the bindings generator, Evert Pot says open source apps …
Friday, 29 June 2007 | News
MySQl Headed Towards an IPO
Business Week says that open-source SQL database management software MySQL is headed toward an IPO. In a post by Jordan McCollum of internetfinancial news, "I'm sure they …
Thursday, 28 June 2007 | News
Alan Knowles: Under the Hood of Binding Generators
In a new post on his blog, Alan Knowles provides the inside scoop on the bindings generator for anyone who might be interested in writing bindings for …
Wednesday, 27 June 2007 | News
LAPP Offers Commercial Alternative to LAMP
Lumen Software, a provider of commercial open source Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and portal solutions, today announced its decision to employ the PostgreSQL-supported LAPP (Linux-Apache-PostgreSQL-PHP) stack for its open …
Wednesday, 27 June 2007 | News
MySQL Query Builder 1.0.2 Released
MySQL Query Builder is a PHP5 OOP API for constructing PDO-ready MySQL queries. Alexey Zakhlestin has released mysql-query-builder 1.0.2. It still lacks formal documentation, but is 100% …
Wednesday, 27 June 2007 | News
Microsoft Releases Scrum Tool
Microsoft has released new support for the Scrum method of agile development in its eScrum tool. eScrum is a Web-based, end-to-end project management tool for Scrum built …
Tuesday, 26 June 2007 | News
Evert Pot: The Curse of Major Versions
In a new post on his blog, Evert Pot says that a lot of the open source applications that he uses for web application development seem to …
Monday, 25 June 2007 | News
PHP Exploit Embedded In Harmless GIF Image
Hackers have begun circulating a PHP exploit embedding it in a seemingly harmless GIF image, according to security researchers. The exploit was discovered in at least one …
Friday, 22 June 2007 | News
PEAR MDB2 updates: FOREIGN KEY support
In a quick pointer from Lorenzo Alberton, he has committed to CVS some changes to add full FOREIGN KEY constraints support to PEAR::MDB2, both in the Manager …
Thursday, 21 June 2007 | News
Develop with Java and PHP on AIX v5.3
It is possible to develop applications that employ both Java and PHP technology on AIX, says Doug Monroe and Martin Brown in a six series article on …
Thursday, 21 June 2007 | News
Gallery 2.2.2 (2.0) Released
Gallery is a slick Web-based photo album written using PHP. It is easy to install, includes a config wizard, and provides users with the ability to create …
Thursday, 21 June 2007 | News
An Alternative for serialize()?
The serialize() function written in PHP generates a storable representation of a value. This is useful for storing or passing PHP values around without losing their type …
Tuesday, 19 June 2007 | News
Get a Furry elePHPant Mascot
After the Linux's Tux, MySQL's dolphin, and other open source mascots, Damien Seguey has translated Vincent Pontier's idea for the PHP elephant mascot into a plush toy. …
Tuesday, 19 June 2007 | News
Principles, Rules to Run a Free Software/Open Source Business
Zak Greant and 'Monty' Michael Widenius have temendous experience working with various FLOSS projects (like Mozilla, MySQL, PHP, etc.) and FLOSS companies (like eZ Systems, Mozilla, MySQL, …
Monday, 18 June 2007 | News
Top 5 Common Databases System Scale-Out Pitfalls
The scale-Out' computing architecture enables organizations to improve application performance and scalability on an incremental, as-needed basis by adding multiple replicated database servers on low-cost commodity hardware. …