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Categories: General, 314 wordsSend feedback •I am finding more and more each day, that I simply do not have enough time to meet everyone’s needs.
My open-source work is developed for free, and because of this, I have to push it back time after time to make way for work that does pay the bills. And because I am usually (if not always) the sole contributor to my projects, this causes them to be put on hold for durations that no one really likes.
If you would like to see a feature, bug fix, or anything done with a project, you can make a donation. As I have to put back unpaid work to make way for paid work, this provides an opportunity for me to make time for the unpaid project, equal to the amount donated.
If you like me, my work, or one or more projects and would like to see them continue, then sponsorship is a good way. This can be done in the form of advertising in my work, the type and costs is of course negotiable.
If you have some skills and want to help out, then contributing would be a nice choice. I am always after interface developers/designers that have experience with jQuery (takes about a day to learn if not), CSS/XHTML, and some Object Orientated PHP knowledge (Eg. what does $this->dosomething(’do?’)).
If you have a blog, or even a mouth! then you can help by word of mouth. You would not believe how much a simple post on your blog about a project or developer helps.
Or if you have people skills and a lot of time to burn, you can always offer support for my work.
So if you think you can help out in any of the above ways, or even a different way, please send me a email at balupton@gmail.com. Thank you.
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Categories: General, 215 wordsSend feedback •GoPHP5 is a “guerrilla” operation to “instantly” turn the tides from PHP4 to PHP5. As a developer working with php, I can not be happier about this! I have worked with PHP5 in my time, and it let’s me do amazing things, like caching and building generic classes in OO (Object Orientated) work. But the lack of true support for PHP5 means we can not fully utilize it, (eg. use it for some projects, while others we need to use old and redundant libraries).
PHP 4 has served the web developer community for seven years now, and served it well. However, it also shows its age. Most of PHP 4’s shortcomings have been addressed by PHP 5, released three years ago, but the transition from PHP 4 to PHP 5 has been slow for a number of reasons.
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It is a dangerous cycle, and one that needs to be broken. The PHP developer community has decided that it is indeed now time to move forward, together. Therefore, the listed software projects have all agreed that effective February 5th, 2008, any new feature releases will have a minimum version requirement of at least PHP 5.2.0. Furthermore, the listed web hosts have agreed that effective February 5th, 2008, they will include PHP 5.2 (or a more recent version) in their service offer.
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