Bård's proposal on Web Application Clustering with MySQL is now a scheduled part of the 2006 MySQL User Conference. He and I will be presenting the session together at the conference in Santa Clara on Wednesday, April 26 from 5:20pm - 6:05pm.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF) is proud to announce that ApacheCon Europe 2006 will be held at the Burlington Hotel in Dublin, Ireland, June 26-30, 2006.

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PHP has the drawback of not supporting events. Fortunately, a basic structure can be built to support events in PHP 5. This article tackles that problem with some proof of concept code.

It seemed reasonable to me that some sort of basic structure could be established to support events in PHP 5, so I set out to whip something up as quickly as possible as a proof of concept. The contents of this article are the work of roughly one programming hour and surely stand to be improved upon, but the basic idea is this: instantiate an object and attach event handlers; the handlers will be executed when the events they are associated with are raised.

They look first at how to create a simple object to store the information in and a "collection" class to manage those objects. They move on to the creation of the event handler class and a "collection" class for handling those as well. Finally, they get to the combination of the above items - a class that does an eval on the inputted string and creates an associative array.

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Ca. noch eine Woche lang hat man Zeit vom an diesem Event vergünstigt teil zu haben. Letztes Jahr waren wir nur 5 Leute aus DACH, nämlich Ekke, Frank, Sandro, Sören und ich. Ich gehe stark davon aus, dass wir dieses Mal einige mehr sind.

Die günstigsten Wege, um nach Norwegen zu kommen sind

• Die A7 Richtung Norden bis es nicht mehr weiter geht und dann die Fähre Hirtshalts, DK -> Langesund, NO
  
  • Fähre kostet € 100 pro Auto
    
• Flughafen Frankfurt Hahn mit Ryanair noch Oslo Trop. Am Flughafen andere eZ Leute suchen und Minibus/ Taxi teilen.
  
  • Flug € 20 - € 60 pro Person
  • Parken am Flughafen € 20
  • Taxi nach Skien unbezahlbar. Der Minibus hatte ca. € 300 für eine halbe Stunde Fahrt nach Langesund gekostet.
    

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While reading the tecosystems blog, I stumbled over Steven's entry "The Oracle M&A Q&A: JBoss, Sleepycat and Zend". It seems that at least Oracle's interest in Zend is true: "[...] and in one panel yesterday Zend's Doron Gerstel did little to deny the Oracle interest". Also, it seems that JBoss has been acquired for $485 Mio. by Oracle.

the Q&A mentions that Zend would fit in with their plans as an "in" to the PHP community and a way of increasing their growth in the database markets.

I offered the PHPEclipse development team help in developing proper support for PHPUnit in the past, to no avail so far. I also talked to the developers of Zend Studio about PHPUnit support for their IDE. Hopefully the next version will support it, we'll see.

Over the last couple of years I did several presentations at conferences as well as workshops, consultings and trainings on PHPUnit where I was asked by developers who are using PHPUnit (to test business critical banking applications, for instance) why I do not support any IDE. My answer to this has been, and still is, that while I develop PHPUnit I don't have the time, and in the case of Zend Studio, for instance, not even the means, to integrate it into IDEs. For this I depend on the support of the IDE vendors.

He also mentions that if there are any of the IDE developers out there that would like to help him on the matter, to let him know...

After the first release a small number of bugs where found in some of the components. These are fixed and the five affected components are released as PEAR package, version 1.0.1.