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While everyone else has been busily gearing up for the release of PHP 5.2 and the new features that are going to come with it, Andrei and his small band of merry babelonians (yours truly included) have been making inroads on preparing PHP6 for a preview release. In the past week we've managed to roughly double the number of builtin functions (those which are part of the main distribution) that have been reviewed for unicode safety, either flagging them as good or upgrading their functionality.
Some of the work that's been done recently has been "low-hanging fruit" (the bcmath extension for example) requiring nothing but adding a U to the function prototype. Other areas, like filename handling, required some very minor additions to handle downcoding where run-time conversion isn't necessarily appropriate. Meanwhile a few changes (e.g. stream_get_contents(), popen()) involved more careful updates to core functionality in order to handle unicode handling without breaking that precious backward compatability...
Was asked recently if I knew of any good regular expressions tutorials (preferably in PHP). The question came from someone certainly smart enough to “get” regular expressions but they’d been unable to find accessible help.
Most regular expression tutorials I’ve seen are organised around teaching the syntax incrementally, which can quickly lead to mental overload. Examples commonly revolve around strings like ‘aaabbababa’…”—great if you’re writing a web crawler for Swedish pop, but confusing for anyone else. And while there are copy and paste regular expressions on-line, if you don’t know what you’re doing, using them can be worse than not at all. Do they meet your needs? Whoops! Mind the security hole…
So going to take a crack at Yet Another Regular Expressions tutorial, with a focus on doing (in PHP) while slowly introducing you to regexp (shorthand for regular expression) syntax. This is going to span a few blog posts (will keep the contents below updated) and get progressively “more interesting”—not all for beginners but if you keep up, hopefully you’ll be able to grasp it. And although it’s “Regexes and PHP”, the regex syntax I’ll be using is largely portable to other programming languages...
eRCP 1.0 is available for download. The supported platforms with this release are Nokia Series 80 and windows mobile 2003/5. Congragulations to the eRCP team.
Last week Sun and the Eclipse Foundation both released milestone versions of their flagship Java IDE/rich client platforms. This planetary alignment provides a unique opportunity to compare the state of development of these two open source projects....
In an excellent post on Doug Schaefer's blog, he emphasises on the need to be open and honest in order to make the Eclipse CDT a healthy community. "I do have a few mantras that are hopefully contributing to a healthy community", writes Doug. The irony of his mantras are not lost on him, as he self-confesses that "all of them go against the grain of who we are. We all love the code we write and feel we are owed some degree of ownership over it and feel we don't need to explain it to anyone. But as soon as you click that Commit button, it's out there for anyone to see, change, criticize."...
So just what does Web 2.0 mean? This is a question I had been asking myself for awhile, but I just never took the time to look it up. When I finally did, I found that the resource I use the most for “Internet knowledge” is a spawn of the Web 2.0 platform.
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