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In Case You Missed It... The Week of February 6, 2006
Elizabeth Naramore
PHP Vikinger Conference Announced
Zak Greant announced that eZsystems will be sponsoring an informal coding conference on June 24025 in Skien, Norway. Registration is a mere €20 and all fees will be donated to "Free Software and Free Culture organizations". The schedule is open, and similar to Foo Camp, and with attendees already booked such as
Christopher Kunz , Ilia Alshanetsky , Marcus Boerger , Rasmus Lerdorf, a good time will be sure to be held by all. Visit Zak's blog for more info and don't miss out on this wonderful opportunity (http://zak.greant.com/2006/02/php-vikinger.html)
New Coding Contest at PHP-Editors.com
If you know anything about Texas Holdem and PHP, then it just might be your lucky day. PHP-Editors.com is sponsoring a new coding contest to determine the best "Texas Holdem" script. Deadline is March 1, 2006, and the first prize is a new edition of NuSphere's PHPEd. For complete rules and details of the contest, go to http://www.php-editors.com/contests_10.php
Recently Published PHP Books
Just to keep you on the cutting edge, here are some PHP books that have recently been published:
- Beginning PHP and MySQL 5: From Novice to Professional, Second Edition by W. Jason Gilmore
- Zend Studio Handbook : The Official Guide for PHP Developers by by Rock Mutchler, Michael B. Naberezny, Benjamin Weigand
- PHP Programming with MySQL by Don Gosselin
- Foundation PHP for Dreamweaver 8 by David Powers
- Pro PHP 5 by Marcus Whitney
- PHP Hacks : Tips & Tools For Creating Dynamic Websites by Jack Herrington
- Hackish PHP Pranks & Tricks by Michael Flenoy
- Easy Oracle PHP : Create Dynamic Web Pages with Oracle Data by Mladen Gogala, Donald Burleson (Editor)
- Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional by W. Jason Gilmore, Robert Treat
- PHP For Teens by Maneesh Sethi
Add Luke Welling to Your Blogroll
The popular author and PHP guru has finally succumbed and started his own blog. You can check out "Some Guy Ranting" at http://www.lukewelling.com.
PEAR/PECL Releases
I would be remiss in my duties if I didn't include what's new at PEAR and PECL. Recent PEAR releases include:
- Text_Diff 0.2.1 - Engine for performing and rendering text diffs
- Math_Numerical_RootFinding 1.0.0 - Numerical Methods Root-Finding collection package
- MDB2_Driver_ibase 0.2.2 - ibase MDB2 driver
- MDB2_Schema 0.4.3 - XML based database schema manager
- MDB2_Driver_sqlite 0.2.4 - sqlite MDB2 driver
- MDB2_Driver_querysim 0.2.1 - querysim MDB2 driver
- MDB2_Driver_pgsql 0.2.4 - pgsql MDB2 driver
- MDB2_Driver_oci8 0.2.4 - oci8 MDB2 driver
- MDB2_Driver_mysqli 0.2.4 - mysqli MDB2 driver
- MDB2_Driver_mysql 0.2.4 - mysql MDB2 driver
- Cache_Lite 1.7.0beta2 - Fast and Safe little cache system
- Text_Highlighter 0.6.8 - Syntax highlighting
- Pager 2.3.6 - Data paging class
- File_Find 1.2.1 - A Class that facilitates the search of filesystems
- SOAP 0.9.3 - SOAP Client/Server for PHP
- File_XSPF 0.2.0 - Package for Manipulating XSPF Playlists
- Net_DNS 1.0.0RC4 - Resolver library used to communicate with a DNS server.
- Net_UserAgent_Mobile 0.26.0 - HTTP mobile user agent string parser
- HTML_AJAX 0.3.4 - PHP and JavaScript AJAX library
And for PECL, we had:
- pecl_http 0.22.0 - Extended HTTP Support
- memcache 2.0.1 - memcached extension
- timezonedb 2006.1 - Timezone Database to be used with PHP's date and time functions
See you next week with more tidbits from the PHP world!
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