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Its the end of the world as we know it.

Whenever someone asks me why PHP is more "agile" than Java, I tell them that in PHP you can break most of the rules your comp sci course told you about and get away with it. Of course this means that you need PHP developers to constantly clean up their code. To paraphrase Jani: "Everytime you open a file you leave it a bit cleaner than it was before." This one is a fundamental mind set any good PHP programmer needs. Without it we will quickly feel all the pain our wise comp sci prof's wanted to spare us by telling all these rules that "shall never be broken".
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Doctrine coming along

Konsta recently formulated quite ambitious goals for the rest of the Google Summer of Code project. The goal is to have an 1.0.0 RC1 by August 31st. This would of course mark a significant milestone in the development of Doctrine, as this would finally give people the promise of a stable API to work with. Until then a number of things need to be done.
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Session clustering, who is online and replication lag

So I need to create a portal site, where we will require multiple frontends. As most portal's we need to store some state information inside a session. We also need to show how many users are online, but more importantly be able to filter searches in the member database by who is online (we do not need to filter by how long the last site interaction as been, but you never know with changing requirements).
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++ Peep-peep ++ Calling out to web hosters ++

A recent post by Rasmus really reminded me of something I have noticed often before, but never really done anything about. The fact that we do not seem to have any ISP's active inside the PHP community. This is kind of odd, considering that PHP seems to be driving the business of hosters quite a bit. Why have none of them decided that PHP is important enough for their business that its worthwhile to ensure that their interests are taken into account?
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The PHP4 dilemma!?

I think there is something wrong with Matt’s argument in that he overlooks the fact that we are talking about open source here. The developers of said applications are probably all among the people that have servers available. So if the decide to move on, its only a question of the hosters flipping the switch to increase the number of machines they deploy their PHP5 images on.
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