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I want to thank the good folks at ThinkShout and ZivTech for organizing the Drupal DoGooders Happy Hour to benefit my family and me, as well as giving people attending DrupalCon an opportunity to hang out and have some drinks. Even though I will not be in Portland this week, I plan to be present in spirit, beginning with a virtual appearance there. Join the crew this evening (May 20) at about 4:00 PDT to raise a glass in toast of doing Drupal Good and for a quick Q & A with me beginning about 4:30. What a long strange trip it's been. From Sunnyvale in 2007 when I conceived the Embedded Media Field module, to Boston DrupalCon in 2008, where I presented my first State of the Media session, to DC in 2009 where we launched the Media sprint supporting the Media suite of modules, to Chicago 2011 and Denver 2012. These are the fun times that I recall fondly, doing good with my fellow cohorts. And by doing good, I mean really doing good things. Because where else in the business world can you spontaneously form a group of competitors, build something awesome, and give it freely to the rest of the world? I'm really going to miss that this year. I mean that even though I continue to contribute to Drupal whatever and whenever I can, I am going to miss seeing you guys this year. There is a magic that happens when you get three or more Drupalers together in the same room. But circumstance has had its way with me these past two years and until we have a DrupalCon "Three Mile Island", I will have to be content with a virtual appearance. So, join me on Monday evening to see my Stephen Hawking impersonation. read more

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Recent releases from the Packagist:dudapiotr/zftable (0.0.3) Flexible tool to generate table kamisama/cake-resque (3.3.6) A CakePHP plugin for creating background jobs with Resque inori/banklink (v0.2.4, v0.2.3, v0.2.2, v0.2.1) Banklink is a PHP library that makes integrating various Baltic banks internet services ('bank links') easy, fast and reliable. rocker/google-login (1.0.2, 1.0.0) Package that makes it possible to authenticate against a PHP-Rocker application using google user credentials (https://github.com/victorjonsson/PHP-Rocker) cloudspeedy/fastly-php (1.0.1) Fastly PHP client library titon/io (0.4.2) The Titon IO package provides classes that handle file manipulation and resource bundling. rocker/server (1.1.5) Boilerplate that helps you write RESTful web services on top of Slim framework (https://github.com/victorjonsson/PHP-Rocker#php-rocker) rocker/facebook-login (1.0.4) Package that makes it possible to authenticate against a PHP-Rocker application using facebook (https://github.com/victorjonsson/PHP-Rocker) phpbenchmark/phpbenchmark (1.0.1) Easy to use benchmark toolkit for your PHP-application. This library contains classes for comparing algorithms as well as benchmarking application responses snakano/propel-data-cache-behavior (1.0.0) propel data cache behavior snakano/cache-store (1.0.0) provides a generic way to cache any data

Recent releases from the Packagist:kamisama/resque-status (0.0.1) A API for saving a php-resque worker settings and status bear/ace (0.2.0) Ace online editor utility bcen/silex-dispatcher (0.4.1) A Silex plugin klein/klein (v2.0.1, v2.0.0) A lightning fast router for PHP liip/rmt (0.9.6) Release Managment Tool danielmewes/php-rql (1.5.1) A PHP client driver for the RethinkDB query language (ReQL) n98/magerun (1.67.0, 1.66.0) Tools for managing Magento projects and installations smirik/bootstrap-bundle (v2.3.2) Simple bundle which add bootstrap css and js files to project and standard template to the form. adamstipak/nette-rest-route (1.1.0) Rest route for Nette Framework nunzion/composer-devlinks (0.1.0) Enables developers to autoload classes from projects outside the vendor directory. These links can replace projects inside the vendor directory and need not to be committed. entomb/slim-json-api (0.1) Slim extension to implement fast JSON API's pscheit/psc-cms (1.1.3) a content management system ontop of webforge. pihi/industrial (0.4.4) Dependency Injection for PHP 5.3 wrep/daemonizable-command (1.0.0) Daemonizable (endless running) commands for Symfony2. yvann/urlify (1.0.0) PHP port of URLify.js from the Django project. Transliterates non-ascii characters for use in URLs. rampage-php/framework (1.0.0-alpha8) Rampage PHP Framework based on Zend Framework 2 nunzion/php-common (0.1.0) Commonly used php functions. fritz-payment/jsonrpc (0.1.0) A general JSON RPC client. liip/imagine-bundle (v0.10.0) This Bundle assists in imagine manipulation using the imagine library propel/propel-bundle (1.2.3) Integration of Propel in Symfony2 bit3/contao-nested-menu (1.0.3) Nested menus for Contao OpenSource CMS jasonlewis/basset (v4.0.0-BETA1) A better asset management package for Laravel.

In this recent post over on DZone.com Giorgio Sironi takes a look at the "clone" feature of PHP - what it is, how it can be used and things to watch out for in its use. Cloning is an operation consisting in the duplication of a data structure, usually to avoid the aliasing problem of having different code modify the same instance in inconsistent ways. In PHP, cloning can be accomplished in multiple ways - and in some cases it can be avoided altogether. He talks some about how objects are passed around internally during the PHP execution and how you can tell if a function works with data by reference (from the manual). He then looks at the "clone" keyword and what kinds of things are duplicated from an object when it is used. He briefly touches on the "__clone" magic method for solving the "shallow clone" problem and how, possibly, serializing the object might be a better alternative for reproducing the entire object. Link: http://css.dzone.com/articles/cloning-php

On PHPMaster.com today they've posted the first part of a series spotlighting Openbiz Cubi, a PHP "framework" with a business focus. Openbiz Cubi is a robust PHP application framework giving developers the ability to create business applications with minimal effort. In this two-part series I'll explain the concepts and steps necessary to create your own business web applications with Cubi. We'll look first at the challenges web developers face and how Openbiz Cubi can help, and then how to install Cubi. In part 2 we'll see how to create our own modules. They start off by describing the tool and some of the features that come with it (including user management and the XML data object structure). Complete installation instructions are included and a screenshot is included of the end result. They include a "quick tour" of Cubi's features and some of the modules that come with it like the System, Menu and User modules. In part two of the series, they'll show you how to create a custom module. Link: http://phpmaster.com/openbiz-cubi-a-robust-php-application-framework-1

Chris Jones has a new post today showing you how to use Oracle and PHP together to process data offline via the Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing feature. Offloading slow batch tasks to an external process is a common method of improving website responsiveness. One great way to initiate such background tasks in PHP is to use Oracle Streams Advanced Queuing in a producer-consumer message passing fashion. [...] The following example simulates an application user registration system where the PHP application queues each new user's street address. An external system monitoring the queue can then fetch and process that address. In real life the external system might initiate a snail-mail welcome letter, or do further, slower automated validation on the address. He includes the SQL needed to create the database and configure the queue system as well as start it up and get it ready for requests. He shows how to push an address into the queue for processing and how to get the results once it has completed in both the SQL and from the oci_* functions in PHP. Link: https://blogs.oracle.com/opal/entry/offline_processing_in_php_with

Recent releases from the Packagist:piwik/piwik (1.12-b15) Open Source Real Time Web Analytics Platform donatj/simplecalendar (v0.4.0) A very simple calendar library icecave/chassis (0.3.0) A template engine for filesystem structures. herrera-io/go (2.0.1, 2.0.0) A simple PHP build tool. herrera-io/cli-app (1.0.2) A simplified CLI application template built on Symfony Console. aporat/application_rest_controller_route (1.0.0) RESTful Zend_Controller_Router_Route with custom defined routes sensio/framework-extra-bundle (v2.3.0-RC1) This bundle provides a way to configure your controllers with annotations symfony/symfony (v2.3.0-RC1) The Symfony PHP framework aporat/application_controller_plugin_forcessl (1.0.0) Zend Framework 1 controller plugin that force all http requests to be under SSL doctrine/doctrine-module (0.7.2) Zend Framework 2 Module that provides Doctrine basic functionality required for ORM and ODM modules phundament/p3pages (0.11.6) Page Manager jiriknesl/mockista (1.2) Mockista is library for mocking, which I've written, because I find mocking in PHPUnit slow. georgeh/php-beerxml (1.0.0) BeerXML parser and generator tecnick.com/tcpdf (6.0.017) TCPDF is a PHP class for generating PDF documents. havvg/lock (v1.0.0) A component for simple resource locking. payum/payum-bundle (0.4.1) The payment bundle integrates payum libs into symfony2 framework phundament/p3widgets (0.11.4) Widget Manager zweifisch/zf (v0.2.6) a micro php web/cli framework/router rah/danpu (2.4.0, 1.4.0) MySQL database dump and restoration tool implemented in PHP rampage-php/framework (1.0.0-alpha7) Rampage PHP Framework based on Zend Framework 2 symfony/intl (v2.3.0-RC1) A PHP replacement layer for the C intl extension that includes additional data from the ICU library. webignition/css-validator-output-parser (1.6.3) Parser for output from the W3C CSS validator symfony/icu (v1.2.0-RC1, v1.1.0-RC1, v1.0.0-RC1) Contains an excerpt of the ICU data and classes to load it. dudapiotr/zftable (0.0.2) Flexible tool to generate table willdurand/email-reply-parser (1.0.0) Port of the cool GitHub's EmailReplyParser library in PHP 5.3 jbboehr/facebook-php-cli (1.0.0) Facebook PHP SDK Wrapper for CLI kriswallsmith/assetic (v1.1.0) Asset Management for PHP

Great Star Trek PunsJulie MillerFriday, May 17, 2013 - 07:46 It's every nerd's right to have a love for Star Trek, and we are happy to exercise this right. In celebration of the new movie, here are some punny pictures of Star Trek's past.  credit: somuchpun.com credit: b3ta.com credit: somuchpun.com credit: i.chzbgr.com credit: funnyasduck.net credit: Tumblr.com credit: somuchpun.com Credit: Facebook.com Source: funnyjunk.com Are you excited for the new Star Trek movie? Let us know your thoughts in the comments!   Featured image credit: todowallpapers.net Read more

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