Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

Last night’s had us continuing our adventures from the last session in the dungeon I-keep-forgetting-the-name-of with characters I-don’t-recall-their-names-unless-it’s-written-on-my-character-sheet.

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The Zend Framework team announces the immediate availability of a preview
release of version 1.9.0:

http://framework.zend.com/download/latest

Note that because these packages are not stable, they will not be
found on the zend.com CDN; please scroll to the bottom of the above page to
find links to this release.

As previously announced, Zend held a contest here to give away 5 free tickets to ZendCon 2009 to 5 deserving User Groups. It’s now time for the announcements of who won!

CuteFlow is an open source PHP workflow management system. The current version is written in plain PHP. The codebase is pretty old and pretty pretty pretty ugly for current PHP standards. We are at the beginning of a complete rewrite of the system with Symfony but still maintaining the old version. The most work is done by myself, so I can need any help I can get. If you are interessted in helping there are a lot of areas you can help.

• New website with symfony (layout is ready)
• Writing documentation
• Creating Screencasts
• Developing

If you are interessted send me a mail to timo.haberkern@fantastic-bits.de.

On his blog, Stas Malyshev (Core Contributor to PHP and Zend Employee) has posted a list of PHP Performance tips that he wants novices to know about. He realized that while he had previously panned a post by Google about PHP Performance of having lots of incorrect or misleading information, but that he never gave good substitute advice himself.

IE6, the bane of all web developers.  I can’t tell you how many times I’ve had to code special cases just for the most non-compliant browser (since IE 5.5), of them all.

YouTube Will Be Next To Kiss IE6 Support Goodbye

Another Episode of PHP Abstract! In this episode I interview Keith Casey while we were both at php|tek in Chicago. Keith Casey is a lead developer on the open source software: Web2Project, which was being released the day that this interview was recorded.

Now that PHP 5.3 has been released and is ready for production use, it’s time to familiarize yourself with some of the new features that come with it. In this new tutorial from SitePoint they look at one of the more controversial additions – namespaces.

So while I was at it made this PHP urlEncode urlDecode Tool because I keep forgetting to bookmark other sites’ urlencode/urldecoders.  Also because the Mac version of Hackbar in Firefox doesn’t have the same options as the Window’s version.

I needed to send an email with human readable string of the difference between two timestamps, so I made this little tool:

PHP TimeDiff Tool