Its been a while since I have posted on my blog. I should at least note that I will be speaking at MySQL User Conf in Santa Clara as well as php|tek in Chicago. Aside from that I am working a little bit on improving Doctrine a very promising DBAL/ORM based on PDO for PHP. Anyways lets get back to the original topic which has nothing to do with PHP or databases directly, but might also be of concern to all of you still. Since I am now in the consulting business I am spending a lot of time working at client premises using my laptop. I really miss an external monitor though. I find it highly unproductive to alt+tab between my editor and the browser or some documentation all the time.

I think last evening it was the first time I saw someone on IRC say that the MDB2 documentation is very good. Of course there are still things missing, but thanks to the efforts of Paul and Lorenzo we now have all of the core features documented. The last piece the two added was documentation on quoting and data type handling in general. Next up we may see some documentation of the Manager and Reverse module to expand on the general Module documentation.

Autoload is kinda convenient. Especially since in PEAR we have such a clear mapping of class name to file name. I do not really understand why some libraries and projects have these insane class name to file name mappings like ez Components and I think symfony also has them. Anyways while it seems kind of nice one must be weary of the idea that they speed up your code. If you are running a byte code cache (which anyone who cares about performance of course does) you will get quite the opposite. Here is Rasmus's answer on this taken straight from #php.pecl:

So I am working on two quick prototypes that are heavy on the Ajax/Javascript front. Been a while since I had to code stuff like that myself actually since in the past years I have always managed to push that kinda of work to other people on the team. Anyways in the prototypes I am doing a bit of drag and drop, I have sliders, moveable popup panels, forms that get submitted via Ajax and that update parts of the interface and web 2.0 stuff like that.

.. I am almost a bit embarrased to say it .. but my diploma thesis is now published on Lulu for print on demand. This is version 1.0.1 which contains a few typos fixes spotted by people in the community. Many thanks for that feedback!