php|architect

Query profiling

Beth Tucker Long — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 12:30:47 +0000

Open PHP MyProfiler could be the answer for your MySQL profiling needs.

Zend Framework 2.0 Taking Shape

Brandon Savage — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 20:30:52 +0000

There's been lots of buzz about Zend Framework 2.0 recently, and for good reason: the feature list is truly kick-ass. With dozens of proposed changes, the second iteration of the web's most popular framework is looking to be considerably better, more efficient and easier to use than the first, while still offering the functionality that framework users have come to expect.

Why TDD is based on testing first

Giorgio Sironi — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:30:11 +0000

Test-Driven Development is a test-first approach, and it could never be different. The advantages of test-first outweigh the time spent writing tests.

The Open Source Way

Giorgio Sironi — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:15:40 +0000

Red Hat has created the basis of a book on open source communities, and it will be completed with the very approach proposed in it.

Programming: you’re doing it wrong

Marco Tabini — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:29:33 +0000

Software development is the land of egos and opinions—and it seems that, no matter how bad we try, we're always doing things the wrong way. But why?

WinCache 1.1 Beta introduces user caching, session handler

Cal Evans — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 18:11:06 +0000

Microsoft continues its commitment to PHP on Windows with the latest release of its opcode cache, WinCache. WinCache 1.1-Beta adds new features to this growing project.

Lithium at version 0.7, now with SQL support

Carl Anderson — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 15:27:16 +0000

Lithium hits version 0.7, bringing 170 commits from 6 different developers...including SQL support.

webcast: Introduction to Doctrine 2

Cal Evans — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 12:30:38 +0000

For the first episode in the TEK·X we have Jonathan Wage - Project Manager for the Doctrine project - talking to us about the Doctrine project and specifically Doctrine 2.

The state of MongoDB, March 2010

Jeff Carouth — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 17:16:55 +0000

Eliot Horowitz and the rest of the core MongoDB Team released a post on the project blog addressing current and future development of the project. The team has released two stable releases — 1.0 and 1.2 — and has a third, version 1.4, coming that contains “better concurrency, geospatial indexing, 'usability' enhancements and speed enhancements, to name a few.”

phpBB 3.0.7-PL1 released

Carl Anderson — Sat, 06 Mar 2010 18:24:35 +0000

The new release fixes a security vulnerability (shocking, we know); users are urged to update.