My post got a bit of feedback good and bad. A few people got the wrong idea, and some people just got plain upset.

I would like to comment on one specific comment http://www.cyberlot.net/comment/reply/66/10 and clear the air a bit.

Read through my blog posts, I tend to be one of the people defending PHP and in this case yes I got a little upset and maybe I jumped the gun but I really needed to voice my opinion on a matter I think is very important toPHP.

Update in comments, I would like to thank Tony for taking the time to really look into this issue! It seems there are some things being registered to run at shutdown, hence they end up getting called after the code in question, hence the 2 different results in question.

First let me say I have nothing but the greatest respect for the people behind pear and php as a whole but it seems lately there have been more and more complaints about how some people handle bugs.

Today I managed to get right in the middle of this.

Bug reported to pear

I hope this is just the beginning of short but useful tips and articles that can help you out sometime in the future.

One of the most important things in project management is communication, are all members of your team good at communicating? Does SVN communicate with you and let you know whats going on? If not you might be missing out on what your team is doing.

Been reading Jacob's blog for a while now, really interested in the gaming library work going on and one of the things that came up was making an extension to accelerator the gaming library.

Its been a while since I last played around with extensions, not since php4 so I scanned through the manual and some only tutorials and threw together this quick and dirty guide to help you get started, again quick and dirty, not a hand holding ends all guide to making an extension, if you don't know some C and php already this is not for you.

The latest trac upgrades have managed to take up all my cpu resources and lose its html preview ability.

The cpu resource issue seemed to be related to running with mod_python so right now its running as just plain cgi, the "html preview not available" issue is related to an upgraded trac.ini, make sure your trac.ini has the following, as related to the system its installed on and where your php is.


[mimeviewer]
php_path = /usr/local/bin/php


Just a quick tip from your local trac loving user ;()

So one of the things I wanted to bring to my blog is a more personal touch, and one of the things I personally enjoy is food.

What makes good food? Being a good cook always helps but good ingredients can make all the difference in the world, fresh herbs, meats, ripe in season veggies and fruits can all make or break a dish.

A few changes around here, first off I decided to revamp the site a little. I used to do a lot of consulting so my site had a more professional look, now that I have focused most of my time to a single company I have decided to give this page a more personnal approach.

First off is an upgrade to Drupal 5 rc1 which is looking great so far, I manually exported and copied some of the data over since my old Drupal was full of settings and such for modules I just wanted to test out and never really used.

This will be my last time referencing the website in question as its clear he doesn't care for anyone elses opinion.

Why ext/filter Here he is attacking ext/filter, some quotes from his website

"There was actually never a need for ext/filter because everything it does can be implemented on a PHP level with plain PHP functions"

And

"ext/filter is just a new irritating API to already existing functionality, that potentially introduces new security holes, because it reimplements existing stuff agai"

Cross Virtual Host Cookie Theft A great article that brings across a very interesting point until he makes a sidewipe at PHP and the stream functions, spiraling the article into a one sided attack that might make people think this is limited to php.

Recently a major figure in php security decided his attempts to make PHP safer "from the inside out" where futile and he quit as part of the PHP Security Team.

Now there are a lot of articles and speculation about this and about PHP is "insecure".