Manuel Lemos As PHP 5.5 is getting ready to be released in the next months, the end of line for PHP 5.3 is being planned, while the original MySQL extension is being deprecated in PHP 5.5 to be killed in a later version. Whether this is a good or a bad thing for PHP developers, was one of the main ...
Manuel Lemos MySQL 5.6 GA version is finally available for download. One of its main features is the new NoSQL interface to access tables much faster than using SQL via a connection compatible of memcached. MySQL 5.6 speed improvements and how it affects PHP applications was one of the main topics ...
Manuel Lemos The PHPClasses site design contest moved on to a second turn. This article explains how it works and what can you do to help picking the best design for the site. As you may be aware, in the first turn of the design contest there was no proposal that reached at least 50% of the user votes ...
Manuel Lemos This is the inaugural episode of the Lately in PHP podcast hosted by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert. It covers some of the latest happenings in the PHP world. This episode covers the top active PHP user groups, interview with Guilherme Blanco of the Doctrine project, finding and posting ...
Manuel Lemos On the episode 5 of the Lately in PHP podcast, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert have as guest Jason Roberts, developer of the upcoming Web based application generation AppIgnite. They have discussed several topics of interest like PHP code generation tools for speeding up PHP development ...
Manuel Lemos Now that Facebook made some progress with their PHP HipHop VM JIT compiler engine, some PHP core developers are considering having also a JIT compiler implementation of the official implementation based on LLVM, eventually in PHP 6. That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos ...
Manuel Lemos Yes, you read it right, GTK+, the Gnome Toolkit library, normally used to create desktop applications, can now be used to serve the same applications via the Web to a browser that supports HTML 5 canvas objects. PHP-GTK is a PHP extension that uses the GTK+ library to build PHP desktop ...
Manuel Lemos Microsoft has been participating in several initiatives that benefit PHP. This post talks about such initiatives. It includes an interview with an Microsoft Open Source Labs leader, and a review of a what happened at summit that Microsoft organized in their headquarters in Redmond with ...
Manuel Lemos Hello, It has been a while since I released the survey about the interest on having additional valued services available to paid subscribers. The survey went very well as a significant number of users expressed immediate interest at least on some of the proposed services. I have been working ...
Manuel Lemos Version Control Systems are important tools that every developer should be using. However, for many developers version control systems do not make part of their development tool set. Read this article to learn what are version control systems, why they are so important to be used by all ...