Ilia wonders why people are not using PHP5. A good question, which I even asked of the Joomla! developers a while ago. The answer from Joomla! was predictable and logical: Hosting providers have not adopted PHP5 enough to warrant the switch as of now. Joomla! 2.0 will probably be PHP5, but not earlier. According to…
The Joomla!Days are over, let my Joomla!Days begin. When I started working for my current employer I knew they were working with Joomla! and Mambo a lot, and I wasn’t the biggest fan of that CMS. But with 1.5 they have been doing a lot to make it one of the most impressive CMS’es out…
Second day of the dutch Joomla!Days, it’s morning and I’m currently at the Dutch Open Projects stand representing the company. We’re currently looking for 4 coders and possibly an account manager, which we hope to get from the Joomla! community. Or at least get some contacts. Plan for today: 10.15 – 11.00: Keynote speech by…
10:48: I’m sitting here in the lobby. First session has started but I’m not really interested, so I have some time to type the plan for today: 11.15 – 11.50: Joomla! Business Example (United Nations!)11.50 – 12.30: How does Google use and stimulate Open Source (Google!)13.30 – 15.00: Joomla! 1.5 Framework (Joomla!) 11:20: Philippe Chabot…
Friday and Saturday the dutch Joomla!Days are happening in Den Bosch. As a company that does a lot with and owes a lot to Joomla! my employer is one of the main sponsors of this event, and most of the employees will be attending the conference. We will even have a stand there! There are…
We recently had a weird situation here at work where we needed to use the Url helper of Symfony inside the actions.class.php of a module. This helper is available in the view, but not in the actions class by default. Of course, we can include this, and this was my first approach. Simply using: include_once(‘symfony/helper/UrlHelper.php’);…
After giving it multiple quick glances, today a co-worker of mine and me sat down a full day to work through the first part of the Symfony tutorial in an attempt to learn to work with Symfony. The tutorials are meant to take about one hour each, and that is a good approximate. After some…
My initial implementation of Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Curl has just been committed! Where before I only committed some small fixes to Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Socket, now I’ve actually committed a real contribution in the form of real, new, self-written code. Yay! 🙂
Today, I have done my first code commit to the Zend Framework. I recently joined Shahar in the development of the Zend_Http_Client component. The first commit is nothing spectacular, just a bugfix in the existing code. My first “real” commit, with code I’ve actually written myself, will follow shortly, when I finish Zend_Http_Client_Adapter_Curl, the Curl…
I just read on PHPDeveloper that there is a new security problem that needs urgent attention of any php developer. It’s RFI, a way for evil crackers to run their code of choice on your server, exposing such information as passwords, or even enabling them to get shell access to your system and maybe become…