FUD Galore
Devshed published an article by Ian Felton titled " PHP5: Could PHP Soon Be Owned by Sun? " which is as close to paranoia as you can get. A few quotes from the article:
iWrong! We wanted to make a better OO model, and it just ended up being like Java.
iYes, the Zend people has some influence, but there is no way they "own" the PHP source code, nor can they ever make it something non-open source. Why? Because Zend only has a few persons working on the engine, and there are more non-Zend people working on it, nor can Zend force people to stop working on an open-source PHP. If they want, they can fork it into something commercial but that would be a very stupid move.
iWe don't support MySQL less with PHP 5. There are a couple of reasons why the library is no longer bundled: 1. it was often outdated cause all sorts of problems; 2. a lot of people used the external library anyway, because not doing so will cause problems when using another Apache module that makes use of MySQL (such as auth_mysql or mod_perl); 3. we have a policy of not bundling libraries unless there is a really good reason to do it; 4. (the least important) MySQL's client library is now GPL and not LGPL anymore.
Conclusion: It's fine if you write articles about PHP 5, but make sure you check facts and do not spread paranoia about things you have no clue about. Also, PHP can never be commercialized as there is always the option of creating a fork of the BSD-style licensed PHP source and Zend Engine.
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TIL that Kingfishers can hover just like hummingbird. I'll hopefully have some reasonable shots after I've gone through my nearly thousand shots today...
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Updated a restaurant
Updated a vacant business
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I think this was my favourite photo of the set that I took. It's not at maximum coverage, but it does have a sun spot group (4508) just on the cusp of the terminator.
#eclipse #eclipse2026 #SolarEclipse #London #Astronomy #AstroPhotography #Photography
No totality here in London, but still had a great evening out in the local park and taking some snaps.
I did have a nice Solar Filter that I made for my lens, and had many conversations with people from different backgrounds. Kids loves to look through my filter after I was done (ran out of battery power).
More photos later...
#london #eclipse2026 #eclipse #photography
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Merged pull request #1100
Fixed issue #2267: Application slow when debugger is not listening on…
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Is there somebody who runs PHP on native windows (with Xdebug) and can run a simple script for me?
It must be in a file (`test.php`):
```
<?php
echo microtime(true), "\n";
xdebug_connect_to_client();
echo microtime(true), "\n";
```And run like:
php -dxdebug.log_level=11 -dxdebug.log=c:\temp\xdebug-i.log -dxdebug.client_host=localhost -dxdebug.client_port=9111 -dxdebug.mode=debug c:\temp\test.php
With the port 9111 not open.
Would love to see the output and log file (in a DM).
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@harry_wood This is this list of 100 Go-mistakes that I was talking about: https://100go.co/
Updated a crossing
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Enjoying my afternoon and evening out at Lords for some cricket!
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