Really, if you're not reading Ryan King on a regular basis, you're missing a lot of good thinking. In this post, he points to work from Clay Shirky (a true visonary and excellent essayist). Clay's essay is about hierarchical organization versus user-defined relationships. This is one of the differences between Yahoo (who did a [...]

Really, if you're not reading Ryan King on a regular basis, you're missing a lot of good thinking. In this post, he points to work from Clay Shirky (a true visonary and excellent essayist). Clay's essay is about hierarchical organization versus user-defined relationships. This is one of the differences between Yahoo (who did a [...]

Tomorrow I'll be going to PHP Tropics as both a vacation and as professional development. Woohoo! :-) And on a professional note: If I have not responded to your emails to me about Solar, Text_Wiki, Savant, DB_Table, or any of my other projects, please accept my apologies. I've been horribly busy with [...]

Tomorrow I'll be going to PHP Tropics as both a vacation and as professional development. Woohoo! :-) And on a professional note: If I have not responded to your emails to me about Solar, Text_Wiki, Savant, DB_Table, or any of my other projects, please accept my apologies. I've been horribly busy with [...]

Solar is a simple object library and application repository for PHP5 under E_STRICT. It takes hints from PEAR and Horde, and bears some superficial resemblance to Ruby on Rails for its MVC application directory structure. API documentation is becoming voluminous, and is bundled with the package now, along with an example Solar.config.php file...

Solar is a simple object library and application repository for PHP5 under E_STRICT. It takes hints from PEAR and Horde, and bears some superficial resemblance to Ruby on Rails for its MVC application directory structure. API documentation is becoming voluminous, and is bundled with the package now, along with an example Solar.config.php file...

This month's International PHP Magazine has my article on Yawp; woohoo! :-) Yawp (for PHP4 and non-strict PHP5) is a single PEAR-compliant class that encapsulates a number of other PEAR classes, and ties them all together with a simple configuration file. When you use Yawp as the base of your application, you get... [...]

This month's International PHP Magazine has my article on Yawp; woohoo! :-) Yawp (for PHP4 and non-strict PHP5) is a single PEAR-compliant class that encapsulates a number of other PEAR classes, and ties them all together with a simple configuration file. When you use Yawp as the base of your application, you get... [...]

Regarding the latest release of Solar, Atrus asked: "How is this significantly different from PEAR?" It's a good question. In this post, I outline some of what I think are the major differences.

Regarding the latest release of Solar, Atrus asked: "How is this significantly different from PEAR?" It's a good question. In this post, I outline some of what I think are the major differences.

Busy weekend; lots of MBA coursework completed, and three releases of Solar. This one is a combined bugfix and function enhancement. Change notes are: * WARNING: This is a public development release, and is not yet stable. * Removed notify() method and related properties from Solar_Cell_Comments, as that method is more properly in the realm of...

Busy weekend; lots of MBA coursework completed, and three releases of Solar. This one is a combined bugfix and function enhancement. Change notes are: * WARNING: This is a public development release, and is not yet stable. * Removed notify() method and related properties from Solar_Cell_Comments, as that method is more properly in the realm of...

Bug tracking for Solar is now available at http://solarphp.com/bugs.php. This is the proof-of-concept Solar_App_Bugs application (eat your own dog food, right?).

Bug tracking for Solar is now available at http://solarphp.com/bugs.php. This is the proof-of-concept Solar_App_Bugs application (eat your own dog food, right?).

Some bugfixes in this release. You really should join the mailing list; good info on setting up Solar.config.php is there.