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Antony Dovgal’s Blog: PHP Seven Commandments
On the lighter side of the language, Antony Dovgal has posted ten commandments that PHP developers should follow including:
Thou shalt obey the Release Master.
Thou shalt not forget to add comments to thy code, especially if the code is tricky.
Thou shalt not fix a bug only in one of the branches unless it did not exist […]
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blitz templates 0.5.7 - Antony Dovgal
Alexey Rybak has recently rolled out new bugfix release of his template PHP extension - Blitz 0.5.7.
This release fixes a number of minor problems including memory leaks and possible invalid reads and does not affect functionality or speed in any way, so the extension is still blazing fast, but even […]
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Antony Dovgal’s Blog: 5.3 snapshots are available
Antony Dovgal points out that Derick Rethans has added the snapshots for PHP 5.3 to the snaps.php.net website.
Short list of what you can find there: Namespaces, __callstatic() magic method, accessing static members through $foo::myFunc(), fully rewritten ini-parser with .htaccess-like user defined ini files for CGI/FastCGI, improved OpenSSL extension, PCRE 7.4, and other fixes and improvements […]
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Antony Dovgal’s Blog: PhD docu builds are online!
Antony Dovgal has pointed out that the latest builds of the PHP documentation using the new PhD system have been put online.
Feel the difference:
With the old OpenJade/DocBook it took 40-60 minutes to build ‘many htmls’ version of the manual.
With PhD it takes less than 2 minutes to build all […]
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PHP Seven Commandments - Antony Dovgal
IMO it’s time to make the development process more organized.
This is my version of what I would like to see as an official set of rules for PHP community.
PHP Seven Commandments
1. Thou shalt obey the Release Master.
2. Thou shalt not commit any patches except for bugfixes after RC stage has started.
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libHaru.org - the new home of free & open source PDF generation lib - Antony Dovgal
It took quite some time for me to think it over and prepare new libHaru site - libHaru.org.
Nevertheless, it’s finally online and I’m going to continue maintaining the library, new bugfix release is on its way.
Though I don’t think I can do all the maintenance job on my own - some […]
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PhD docu builds are online! - Antony Dovgal
The docs generated by the brand new docu build system PhD ([CVS], [releases]) written by Hanness Magnusson, after several months of development are finally online!
Feel the difference:
With the old OpenJade/DocBook it took 40-60 minutes to build ‘many htmls’ version of the manual.
With PhD it takes less than 2 minutes to build […]
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