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Last week the usual round of PEAR-bashing on Twitter took place, then this morning Marco Tabini asked if PHP (core) was running out of scratches to itch. He also suggests he got this idea from Cal Evan’s blog post about Drupal forking PHP. http://blog.tabini.ca/2011/04/is-php-running-out-of-itches-to-scratch/ http://blog.calevans.com/2011/04/07/four-reasons-why-drupal-should-fork-php/ [Not submitting to your linkbait.] Pecl and PHP So first off — moving libraries from the core to an external repository was done for various reasons....

Yelling, sometimes also referred to as shouting, is an old school management technique. Yelling has been around for literally as long as mankind walked on planet earth. And despite a great history of success, yelling is still often unappreciated and a misunderstood art. key points Let me summarize the key points — what yelling is all about! Yelling emphasizes one’s opinion. Yelling helps to bring across your point. Yelling helps to avoid mis-communication....

After running away screaming from Zend_XmlRpc we migrated of our internal webservices are RESTful nowadays — which implies that we make heavy use of HTTP status codes and so on. On the PHP side of things we implemented almost all of those webservices using the Zend Framework where some parts are replaced by in-house replacements (mostly stripped-down and optimized versions equivalents of Zend_Foo) and a couple nifty PEAR packages. RESTful — how does it work?...

So the other day, I wanted to quickly check something in BigCouch and thanks to Vagrant, chef(-solo) and a couple cookbooks — courtesy of Cloudant — this was exceptionally easy. As a matter of fact, I had BigCouch running and setup within literally minutes. Here’s how. Requirements You’ll need git, Ruby, gems and Vagrant (along with Virtualbox) installed. If you need help with those items, I suggest you check out my previous blog post called Getting the most out of Chef with Scalarium and vagrant....

Ever since I started playing around with Unix ~13 years ago, I’ve been a fan of automating things. What started out as writing little (maybe pointless) shell scripts slowly but surely morphed into infrastructure automation today. As for my, or maybe anyone’s, motivation to do these things, I see three main factors: I’m easily bored — because repeating things is dull. I’m easily distracted (when I’m bored). I’m German: Of course we strive for perfection and excellence....