Here is a list of very simple bugs to fix, to make PEAR better: Deprecation bugs for PEAR code.
I fixed two. The list was a wee bit shorter when I reloaded its tab.
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php-internals, this Tuesday
If you’re a PHP user, you might want to follow the php-internals talk. But it’s a very talky mailing list. So, “follow” it. From afar. My medicine is to go to the web interface like once a month, and just look at the interesting headings.
“We have packaged PHP 5.3.0beta1! Go test-run your PHP apps. Should be interesting.
Also: “The PHP TestFest is a worldwide event in which PHP user groups and individuals contribute to PHP by writing tests for PHP.” Testfest at wiki and at the QA team’s page.
And, the PHP5 buglist.
Calling an XML-RPC method (PHP, Ruby)
Calling web services. Great fun when it works. Thanks to XML-RPC’s simplicity, it’s quite easy to cobble together a working client. Here is me using the Technorati “ping” service, which tells them about the Copenhagen Ruby Brigade’s weblog being updated. And then, prints the result.
My PHP take on this looks klutzy. But the request gets encoded smartly. cURL takes a lot parameters to get running. I write the appropriate headers myself, there.
In Ruby’s standard library, there is a library to do these things. Exciting.
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