October 25, 2006
Want to register?
We have made our first milestone with over 100 registered users in the Forums. Want to join us? Continue on to our forums, and register to get started participating with phpWomen.org!
October 24, 2006
#phpwomen chat live
In addition to this wonderful site and forum, phpWomen has an IRC channel hosted on irc.freenode.net. Connection tutorials are coming soon (for unix/linux and windows). If you know how to chat with an IRC (Internet Relay Chat) client, join us on the #phpwomen channel soon! Don’t forget that we’re a very international group, so there could be activity at any time !
October 22, 2006
Interview with founding women:
I’m pleased to present the first of many planned interviews for the phpWomen site. I am starting the series at the beginning. My two victims, er… guests, started the frenzy that has become phpWomen.org.
Ligaya Turmelle and Elizabeth Naramore were talking on the #phpc IRC channel about the number of women in php, and posted an invitation in their blogs for women to stand and be counted. Well, they have and they continue to do so. The current member count is over 50, and growing each day. It’s truly an international organization of people (not just women) united to help each other, as well as help women become more involved with php. Read the rest of this entry »
PHP 5.2 RC6 Released
PHP 5.2 has been a rather wild adventure. It’s all the way to Release Candidate 6. You can read more about it on Ilia’s Blog (release manager) and windows builds, including the very nice new msi installer, are available from Edin’s Blog (windows builds).
5.2 promises to be a leap forward, both in features and stability. It features a new filter extension, hooks for file progress uploads (which requires a seperate extension), lots of bugfixes, several bundled libraries updated including sqlite, and full __toString support.
If you have the opportunity, and a development box to play with, you should try installing the release candidate and make sure it doesn’t crash and burn horribly. And let’s hope the final release doesn’t require another RC because I’m looking forward to 5.2
October 20, 2006
PHP|tek 2007 is announced
Php Architect has announced their 2007 PHP|tek conference to be held in Chicago, May 16-18. The theme is PHP::innovate() - “focus on practical examples of how PHP can help developers and companies everywhere build better products faster, less expensively and more securely”
There is currently a Call for Papers open but the deadline is approaching rapidly - you only have until midnight on November 20. Speakers get some perks inlcuding complimentary access to the conference, a travel allowance, and a stipend for each talk.
I’d love to see at least one female presenter there, so roll up your sleeves and submit a paper. And hopefully quite a few of you will register. Hope to see you there!
Writer is shaping up
I had a good portion of writer done before I realized I was copying the same things over and over again - so I took a breath and refactored so I had a parent abstract window class for all those identical windows. And moved to using GtkActions (by the way - actions make life a [...]Permalink Comments off
October 19, 2006
PHPWomen
Welcome to PHPWomen. We are in the process of setting up the site so give us a little bit of time. Meanwhile please feel free to join us on the forums.
October 11, 2006
Php Women
I was on ##php at freenode (I try to be a good php community citizen and help out occasionally, usually for php5 questions even though irc in general tends to attract the not so pleasant aspects of the community) and noticed a little “Girls only need apply” in the topic. So curious that I [...]Permalink Comments off
October 9, 2006
Amusing quotes…
There was a little spat on the php.internals mailing list over the future of dl. The docs have been updated to say that dl will still exist for cgi and cli in php6. So I asked why php-gtk is pushing for using php.ini to load all modules instead of dl…. (3:56:29 PM) cweiske: dl() does bad things [...]Permalink Comments off
October 3, 2006
I didn’t set out to be a documentor…
So I’ve been doing a “daily doc” for php-gtk2. I was on IRC one night and christian weiske was whining about wanting people to help with documentation. Now, I’d never done anything with docbook before (and php/php-gtk’s bastardized docbook is even more “fun” than the original) and I was afraid. So he mentioned that [...]Permalink Comments off
