Developer Blog

I’m extremely busy right now with work for various clients and myself, hence the lack of posting.

I plan to get my old portfolio moved over to here, and each fortnight I will aim for a educated ramble on something, I’ve already started one on how the user is a creators most valuable resource.

I also plan on doing posts about challenges I have faced and how I have overcome them.

So expect something within 1 to 2 weeks hopefully

Been using the OneCare ever since it came out, the 1.0/1.5 beta and final version treated me quite well. I installed the 2.0 beta 1 or 2 months ago, and things seemed to be going smoothly… until today that is. I turn on my PC and login, after logging in, nothing happens, I’m staring a blank screen with my mouse cursor there. So I ctrl+alt+esc to open task manager, that worked, and only 4 or so processes are running. If I tried to open more, they would just freeze the computer (forcing a ctrl+alt+del and restart), or just not work. Disabling UAC made it so explorer worked correctly, but still had the other problem of no apps working. So I safe mode, and that works (kind of) but I can’t do anything usefull in it. In the end to resolve the problem, I did a diagnostic startup and uninstalled onecare, which was my only suspect, as what else fucks with your computer that deep besides a antivirus program. So once that uninstalled it was smooth sailing and back to being amazed, astonished, bedazzled, flabbergasted, at how great this wallpaper of Herminey looks on my desktop.

I posted a topic in the Neowin.net forums back in January. The topic outlines how soo many PHP developers do not know basic “standards” for the language, and goes on to listing the “standards", tips, tricks, and optimizations that developers can use. Because it was posted in a great forum, it had a lot of feedback from other professional developers, so the topic consists of everyone’s suggestions. It is an essential read if you are a PHP developer.

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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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