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"For the FrOSCon folks following me - the Agavi numbers were low because I was in development mode -..."

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:14:30 +0430

“For the FrOSCon folks following me - the Agavi numbers were low because I was in development mode - slides updated”

- says Rasmus (thanks for clearing it up, slides are fixed, 15 times quicker now, and faster than symfony, Cake and Zend Framework!) (via wombert)

"Nothing sucks in the world of free software, problem lies between chair and keyboard(PLBCAK)!"

Thu, 21 Aug 2008 20:27:00 +0430

“Nothing sucks in the world of free software, problem lies between chair and keyboard(PLBCAK)!”

wombert: The video of the Agavi talk I gave last week.

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 10:13:39 +0430

wombert:

The video of the Agavi talk I gave last week.

Agavi 1.0.0 beta 1 released!

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 09:22:56 +0430

Agavi 1.0.0 beta 1 released!:

wombert:

After more than three years of development, Agavi has finally reached the first 1.0 milestone: 1.0.0 beta 1 is out! Grab it now at http://agavi.org/

As you might already know, it’s fairly identical to the stable Agavi 0.11 series, which has been ready for production use for a long time now and enjoys widespread use across many sites already.

This new release introduces a new build system for projects, and features a new XML configuration subsystem that is even more flexible and ready for the future while maintaining full backwards compatibility. Several other minor enhancements are also listed below, but as usual, the RELEASE_NOTES and CHANGELOG files know it all. Please also pay special attention to the UPGRADING document which explains the changes to the configuration file formats (old configs will continue to work, however).

There will likely be another beta release before we enter the release candidates cycle as a couple of refactorings remain to be done, just like the new unit testing subsystem for applications. Note that use in production environments is not recommended at this time.

Also, I’m very happy to announce that a preview version of our new tutorial manual is up at http://agavi.org/docs/tutorial/. It covers the first couple of what’s going to be quite a number of chapters that explain the creation and improvement of the new official Agavi example application, which will also be used by other manuals, presentations and in trainings. Please have a look at it and let us know what you think; any sort of feedback is greatly appreciated!

But let’s talk about three important new features in 1.0:

XML config subsystem with improved, namespace-aware handlers, support for multiple XML Schema (also using XML Schema Instance declarations), RELAX NG and Schematron validation runs in various stages of config parsing, support for XSL provided through external instructions and by processing instructions and convenient support for namespace versioning, which means we’ll have nice backwards-compatible configuration files in the future. Envelope and actual content of files are now separate, as described in the UPGRADING document.

A completely new build system for creating and managing your projects. It features several wizards, as well as raw targets that work without interactive input. This allows extension and customization of build operations in your custom build.xml files. There’s also an event listener system you can hook into for even more flexibility.

Execution containers now have a request method. This means you can embed, for example, a slot with a login form, with the request method forced to “read”, so that this Action would never run the login operation even if another form on the page was submitted through a POST request. This should reduce a lot of request method related pains people have experienced when building heavily componentized web sites.

The rest is mostly refactorings and minor enhancements as explained by RELEASE_NOTES, CHANGELOG and UPGRADING.

Please test this first release thoroughly with your projects and report any issues you find on the mailing lists or the bug tracker!

Thank you all for using Agavi, it’s an absolute pleasure to work with such a great user base!

David Zülke's Talk at PHPLondon

Sat, 09 Aug 2008 11:08:55 +0430

wombert:

Yesterday, I presented Agavi at the PHPLondon user group’s August meetup. At slightly over an hour, it was a bit long, but people asked a lot of questions afterwards, which I guess is always a good sign.

There is an audio recording of it, which I will combine with the slides to create a nice movie to watch. In the meantime, the slides can be found here (you can also download the original PDF there).

wombert: Parking garage signage depends on your perspective -...

Wed, 06 Aug 2008 09:53:49 +0430

wombert:

Parking garage signage depends on your perspective - Autoblog

wombert: Python code swarm (via)

Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:21:12 +0430

wombert:

Python code swarm (via)

David Zülke's Talk in London on August 7, 2008

Sat, 26 Jul 2008 10:33:52 +0430

wombert:

I’m giving a presentation on Agavi at the PHP London User Group meeting on 2008-08-07. Their wiki has all the details, but here’s the short version:

Upstairs at Theodore Bullfrog from 7pm onwards. Admission is free.

Talk is first, discussion afterwards

Several Agavi developers, contributors and users will be there to answer questions etc.

Looking forward to seeing you there!

wombert: Porsche PDK (via Autoblog)

Fri, 18 Jul 2008 00:31:01 +0430

wombert:

Porsche PDK (via Autoblog)

Trickle -- A portable lightweight userspace bandwidth shaper

Fri, 04 Jul 2008 12:29:00 +0430

I had lots of issues with some applications which suck whole bandwith of network and don’t allow other applicatons or users (in case of shared network connection) to use the connection.

I just asked this problem in #debian and Guerin introduces a nice tool called Trickle.

Wanna launch apt-get dist-upgrade? There we go

$trickle -d 10 -u 20 apt-get dist-upgrade

Done.