You know a student who needs to make some cash this summer AND likes programming? The Google Summer of Code project is open for student applications, and PHP is one of the organizations in on the fun.
There’s a list of ideas on the PHP wiki - with a wide range of skill sets, from […]

I use a lot of google’s services - gmail for a nice generic address, analytics for my website, google bookmarks to keep my stuff organized. I hadn’t had any problems - until today.
About 5:45 eastern time my email kicks up an error asking me to reenter my password. Now I’ve had a little […]

yes, goofy name… the goal? All dependencies for PHP (and GTK so PHP-GTK runs smoothly) and PECL compiled on at least Visual Studio 2005 - in a completely transparent process where source changes and project files and built binaries are available to anyone.
So, I’ve been slowly working on getting Open Source libraries compiling […]

For those of you who didn’t know - PHP-GTK 2 finally hit a final 2.0.0 release (on leapday of all things). PHP-GTK is a wrapper around GTK, a cross platform library for creating desktop applications. With it you can write desktop apps with PHP. That means no server, just a PHP CLI, […]

MS was nice enough to grant several members of the PHP community (including me) some MSDN licenses which include the “beefed up” versions of Visual Studio which have some additional tools including testing and code coverage.
So this evening I managed to get PHPTrunning my tests (they’re just basic .phpt tests but run-tests is..well flakey is […]