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Monday, 6 July 2009DPC 2009 Day 2
This year I attend the Dutch PHP Conference for the first time; and I must say I've enjoyed it quite a lot. It has been a good time to spend with my colleagues at Ibuildings, people from other companies all around the world and well-known names in the PHP community, like Andrei Zmievski or Sebastian Bergmann.
Andrei's keynote on the conference's first day was very good, but day one was already adequately covered by Jeroen, so I am going to sum up my experience of the last day. Ga door met lezen van "DPC 2009 Day 2" Friday, 3 July 2009DPC 2009 Day 1
After my colleague Cal reviewed DPC's tutorial day, it's now my turn to look back at the first real conference day of 2009's Dutch PHP Conference.
The day started with a nice movie made by Almer and Norman after which Cal officially opened the Dutch PHP Conference and introduced Andrei Zmievski to do the opening keynote. Andrei gave an outline of developments in PHP including the changes we are going to see in future versions. Closures, namespaces, better garbage collection and a few more things are coming to PHP5.3, but I think this isn't new to most people. I haven't really read a lot on PHP6 yet other than Unicode, so the addition of traits, C# style getters and setters and scalar/return value type hinting were new to me. I think this was a nice talk to be the opening keynote, because other than just being infomrative the talk also had the right amount of humor with some examples of frustrated people reporting "bugs" and a setting for y2k compliance. I wasn't active in PHP 10 years ago, but it made me laugh when I heard that the y2k_compliance setting basically did nothing other than stop people asking about it. Ga door met lezen van "DPC 2009 Day 1" Wednesday, 1 July 2009PHP 5.3 from a development manager's perspective
Yesterday, the PHP community proudly announced that they have released PHP 5.3. While only the minor version number went up, this is still a significant release containing many new features. Maybe even more important than these new features are several features that have been deprecated. These are features that have been in PHP for legacy reasons, but best practices generally already advised against using them, and now the features are formally deprecated. In a future PHP version they will disappear entirely.
At our Techportal Cal Evans gave an overview of the important changes, to make migration easier for developers. In this post,I'm going to look at the migration from a less technical angle, and explain when migration to PHP 5.3 is a good idea and when not. Ga door met lezen van "PHP 5.3 from a development manager's perspective"
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