A Note on Security in PHP
PHP is a powerful and flexible tool. This power and flexibility comes from PHP being a very thin framework sitting on top of dozens of distinct 3rd-party libraries. Each of these libraries have their...
View ArticlePHP Security Expert Resigns
“PHP security holes have a name — quite often it was Stefan Esser who found and reported them. Now Esser has quit the PHP security team. He feels that his attempt to make PHP safer “from the inside” is...
View ArticleCongratulations Andrei
Congratulations, to Andrei and the rest of the PHP team for reaching the milestone of converting 50% of the 3084 functions that are bundled with PHP 6 to now support Unicode.
View ArticleMy New Gig
How come I’m not blogging lately? Typical reasons, ranging from lots of travel, to project work. But there is one reason that might stand out: I’m starting with a new company. I have accepted the...
View ArticleRecentChangesCamp 2007
Well, I went to the Recent Changes Camp 2007 this past weekend here in Portland, Oregon and I must say it was interesting. I enjoyed listening to the identity lady and her session about OpenID. It was...
View ArticleZend Framework Preview 0.7.0
Zend Framework is a simple, straightforward, open-source software framework for PHP 5 designed to eliminate the tedious details of coding and let you focus on the big picture. Its strength is in its...
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March To Be Month of PHP Bugs (Bring It On)
During Stefan Esser’s interview with SecurityFocus he announced the upcoming Month of PHP bugs initiative in March. Quoting: “The Month of PHP bugs will take place in March 2007. Its goal is to make...
View ArticleWhy PHP?
So, yesterday after reading Ben Ramsey’s post, “Business Case for PHP” I decided to join Stuart Herbert ’s Google Group for developing a business case for PHP. I am very interested in the outcome of...
View ArticleZend Framework Project Teams Need You
Most components and subprojects need volunteers to help with documentation, unit test coverage, code reviews, improving integration with other ZF components, and enhancing architecture and design for...
View ArticleCongratulations! I have been accepted as a presenter…
I have been accepted as a presenter for the O’Reilly Open Source Convention 2007 at the Oregon Convention Center, July 23, 2007 – July 27, 2007. The following has been accepted as a session for the...
View ArticleLast day at Schematic
Today was my last day working for Schematic as an employee. I look forward to a new day… with a new set of challenges. To everyone at Schematic; I wish you the best and appreciate the opportunities...
View ArticleMy new company OmniTI
OmniTI, employer of several active members of the PHP community including Chris Shiflett, George Schlossnagle, Theo Schlossnagle, Wez Furlong, and Laura Thomson. I’m very excited to announce that I am...
View ArticleZend Framework 1.0.0 Production Released
Zend Framework is now the best class library available for PHP 5 web application development. It is an open source project that provides solutions to solve frequent needs of web application developers,...
View ArticleZendCon Unconference Chairperson for 2007 Is…
You my friend are now an active participant! Let’s get those ideas out of the hallway and back into the meeting room…. welcome to our first annual ZendCon Unconference. If you are sick of being just...
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php|works is now over – back to work
Well, it started off a little weird – Paul Reinheimer was a total tard to me (just kidding man – glad we worked through that stuff). Note: Should totally learn to speak Canadian one of these days…...
View ArticlePHP Unconference ‘07 @ ZendCon
Well, we want to offer the best possible experience to all of this years ZendCon ‘07 attendees – so, in that vein we are offering the ability to see sessions from remote speaker such as Maggie Nelson -...
View ArticleJoin the PHP Evangelism Team
As, fellow members of the PHP Development Team we are all called to be developer evangelists to the PHP Community. So, what is our cause, our reason for being… how are we trying to change the “Web 2.0″...
View ArticleMonitoring Gearman over Telnet port 4730
So, the only way to monitor the Gearman daemon is via telnet to port 4730. The current monitoring supported commands are really fairly basic. I could not locate any documentation on the support...
View ArticleMicrosoft Bing Party | Web 2.0 Summit 2009 | ZendCon 2009 | Ruby Skye
So, Microsoft Bing had a huge party at San Francisco’s famed venue, Ruby Skye. Some of us, from the PHP Community were fortunate enough; to attend this exclusive party… and as if that wasn’t enough in...
View ArticleLunch 2.0 with Bing!
Well, it’s official. The folks over at SHIFT Communications, especially Marie Williams and team, have done it again… Done what you ask? Well, I’ll tell you — they have thrown a wonderful get together...
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