Greg Beaver's Blog: Serious Progress on PEAR Dev

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Greg Beaver's Blog: More on PEAR.phar's
Development

Greg Beaver's Blog: More on PEAR.phar's
Development 04/18/2005 07:39 AM
With two quick updates on the "PEAR without PEAR" project that Greg Breaver has been working on, he has two new posts on his blog with the scoop.

Greg Beaver's Blog: Standalone PEAR with
No Deps

Greg Beaver's Blog: Standalone PEAR with
No Deps 04/13/2005 08:33 AM
Greg Beaver has a new posting on his blog today about a real milestone in the "standalone PEAR installation" project he's been working on - a standalone PEAR with no dependencies thanks to PHP_Archive.

Greg Beaver's Blog: PEAR.phar
Issues/Fixes

Greg Beaver's Blog: PEAR.phar
Issues/Fixes 04/15/2005 10:02 AM
In the continuing evolution of the PEAR.phar package Greg Breaver has been working up, there's a little bit of a setback noted in this new blog entry over on his site.

Greg Beaver's Blog: PHP_Archive Gains
Maturity

Greg Beaver's Blog: PHP_Archive Gains
Maturity 04/08/2005 10:23 AM
Following up his entry on the self-installing PEAR idea, Greg Beaver has a new post today with an update on his work with the PHP_Archive package.

Greg Breaver's Blog: Self-Installing
PEAR?

Greg Breaver's Blog: Self-Installing
PEAR? 04/07/2005 07:31 AM
Greg Beaver has a new note over on his blog today about a very interesting idea that I agree could help the PHP community with its adoption of PEAR - self-installing PEAR from a single file.

Tobias Schlitt's Blog: PEAR::Image_3D
Proposed

Tobias Schlitt's Blog: PEAR::Image_3D
Proposed 06/17/2005 03:32 PM
Tobias Schlitt has a new post with a proposal for inclusion into the PEAR libraries - PEAR::Image_3D.

Image_3D enables you to render 3D images using PHP. As I mentioned in my last post on that topic, the usage of PHP to render 3 dimensional images seems a bit ridiculous, but it definitly has a sense: Imagine the rendering of 3D charts from database data (we plan to implement a driver for PEAR::Image_Graph) or rendering of simple 3D images from user data. Of course one should not render those images on the fly, but cache them. Exciting is the fact, that rendering even complex 3D images (about 16.000 polygones) takes an acceptable amount of time. Try it yourself! :)

He also shares a few resources on the subject, including: the proposal, the package itself, as well as an example of it in use...

Center for American Progress - The
Progress Report - Page

Center for American Progress - The
Progress Report - Page 02/17/2004 06:09 AM
The President's Pal and Business Partner Will Make Millions From Drug Card Program He Helped Design .. The Progress Report: 'Imminent' Semantics; Playing the Blame Game 1/30 .. IRAQ - Intel Warnings Ignored

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HD Audio: Progress, But Still a Work in
Progress

HD Audio: Progress, But Still a Work in
Progress 09/10/2004 06:51 PM
Intel's High Definition Audio is beginning to ship on some 915 and 925-based motherboards, but is HD Audio a solution without a problem? And what about DVD-Audio support?

Greg on the Mic

Greg on the Mic 02/01/2005 10:09 PM

Guess Who’s Back?

“So here I am, three months later, bored with writing and ready to try something new. With that in mind, I offer the all-new Open Stacks Podcast #1.” [Open Stacks]

Excellent – Greg Schwartz is podcasting! Grabbing the file now…. So Greg, having done an actual podcast, do you see applications for libraries?

Greg Palast, You're My Hero

Greg Palast, You're My Hero 09/07/2004 01:26 AM
So, does posting unreported news on mefi decrease the likelihood the corporate media will pick it up? Let's find out. Greg Palast is at it again, but is anybody listening? Former Texas Lt. Governor admits pulling strings to get Dubya into National Guard and then keeping quiet for big-time money.

... now all we need is a "control group" story. Any ideas? Email me.

In support of Greg Dyke and the BBC...

In support of Greg Dyke and the BBC... 02/10/2004 02:47 AM

In the Daily Telegraph today is an advert/petition paid for and signed by many thousands of BBC staff asserting the fierce independence of the BBC and talking about Greg Dyke's leadership as Director General (see Guardian article). I don't have a lot to say about it except to say that unfortunately my name and those of many other people I know couldn't fit onto the page, but that shouldn't in any way be read as a lack of support. It was signed and supported financially by many more people than could fit onto that page - myself included - and its impressive scale should be viewed as just a slice of the even larger genuine ground-swell of sentiment throughout the organisation.

Greg Maddux Denied 300th Win (AP)

Greg Maddux Denied 300th Win (AP) 08/02/2004 04:42 AM
AP - Greg Maddux has lasted long enough to earn 299 wins. He needed to last at least one more inning for No. 300. Nomar Garciaparra and the Cubs rallied to take the lead just an inning after Maddux came out Sunday, so he wound up with a no-decision in Chicago's 6-3 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies.

Robot Stories - Greg Pak Interview

Robot Stories - Greg Pak Interview 06/04/2004 08:34 PM
Robot Stories is a low budget movie billed as "science fiction from the heart". The collection of four Bradbury-style short stories is making the rounds of art house theaters around the country. Robot Stories has proven so popular in Dallas, Texas, where it's showing right now that the run has been extended another week. I got a chance to talk to Greg Pak, the writer and director, after a recent screening and he agreed to answer a few questions for the robot geeks here at robots.net. Read on for the full interview.

Interview with AirWave's Greg Murphy

Interview with AirWave's Greg Murphy 07/12/2004 03:54 PM
A talk with AirWave's COO: In a bit of coincidental timing, AirWave's $7 million funding announcement today dovetails with a recent interview I had with Greg Murphy, the founder of AirWave's two incarnations and currently the chief operations officer. Those with reasonably long memories will recall that AirWave started as a hotspot company and was setting up restaurants in the San Francisco Bay Area in 2001. Faced with the dotcom downturn, the company sold its Wi-Fi locations to a startup operator -- in turn acquired by Ikano and operated now as Hotspotzz -- but turned its expertise in managing remote access points into its main business. AirWave is on the verge of releasing its third version of the AirWave Management Platform, which allows management through a central software server of dozens to thousands of heterogeneous access points (APs) from vendors like Cisco, 3Com, Avaya, Proxim, and others. AirWave's basic philosophy is that companies can be free to choose whatever access points they need, but also that most companies already have APs from multiple vendors that they aren't interested in replacing. With a central console, the network can be monitored for new APs, which can be automatically configured; traffic statistics can be collected in one location for an entire worldwide network; reconfiguring 10 or 1,000 routers involves the same amount of work; and rogue access points can be detected when they're plugged into a network. Similar hardware and software is avaiable from Cisco, Proxim, and others to manage just their own equipment with some support for outside integration with other APs. I spoke to Murphy last month just after AirWave had announced that their system was being used in 10 major universities around the U.S. Murphy noted his alma mater, Amherst, had put in Ethernet everywhere as part of an early wave of making Internet access available to all students. The current wave is, of course, Wi-Fi. "It's so much more affordable than punching a hole in every dorm," Murphy said. Every time a college opens a wall, they might find construction problems, code issues, or even asbestos. "If I don't open the wall, I don't have to know what's in there," Murphy said. The AirWave system works well in colleges because they're among the most likely candidates to have patchworks of equipment from many companies, including commodity consumer gear, and then overlay a more comprehensive management approach on top of...

greg.org: How I Would Protest At The
Republican Convention

greg.org: How I Would Protest At The
Republican Convention 07/14/2004 10:23 AM
How I Would Protest At The Republican Convention

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Composer Greg Hale Jones passes away

Composer Greg Hale Jones passes away 08/10/2004 08:59 AM
I've just learned that Los Angeles-based composer Greg Hale Jones has passed away. This is very sad news -- he was young, he was talented, and he was a kind soul.

I first met Greg in the course of a feature I was writing for Grammy Magazine (Link to gif scan), and had the good fortune of developing an aquaintance with his work and his warm, kind personality over time. He was a good man, which is something of a rarity here in Hollywood.

His body of work included a number of film soundtracks, and a series of wonderful pieces that remixed/rethought/reinterpreted old historic folk song recordings from the Library of Congress. Probably the most widely-exposed of these was a tune called "Boll Weevil."

One of the things that was so amazing about the work Greg did was the way he used these old recordings -- he wasn't just sampling them and slapping them on top of a techno beat, Moby-style. He was really turning them inside out, composing through them and around them and retooling both the original and the new elements in an incredibly sensitive way. It was great work, and a fine reminder of the fact that valuable new art often owes its creative DNA to prior work.

When I interviewed him, he told me about how the Library of Congress was relatively generous with granting permission to use those 60-year-old Alan Lomax field recordings of black southern folk singers -- but this permission came with an odd condition. Since the song would be used in a feature film, some portion of the movie's proceeds must go back to the heirs of the original singer. Greg agreed. This resulted in a surreal scenario: after a long, challenging search to locate the descendants, a suited-up Paramount Pictures executive drives a winding road out to an overgrown southern plantation in disrepair, hands a check to an elderly woman, asks "So, what are you going to do with the money?" She replies, "I'm gonna finally go out and buy me one of them telephones, that's what I'm gonna do."

Some audio clip are here. His partner Laurie says she plans to keep Greg's studio in operation, and has no intent of allowing his creative legacy to fade. He was a gentle, insightful soul. He was also an unbelievably gifted artist. I'm deeply saddened to learn of his departure.

Greg Maddux Joins 300-Victory Club (AP)

Greg Maddux Joins 300-Victory Club (AP) 08/07/2004 09:10 PM
AP - Greg Maddux has always been a man of little fanfare, so that's exactly how he handled his 300th win — with a quiet step into history. Maddux calmly overcame a shaky start to become the 22nd major league pitcher to reach 300 victories, leading the Chicago Cubs over the San Francisco Giants 8-4 on Saturday.

Greg Maddux Returns to Chicago Cubs (AP)

Greg Maddux Returns to Chicago Cubs (AP) 02/18/2004 01:03 AM
AP - Greg Maddux is going back where he started, deciding to sign with the Chicago Cubs, The Associated Press learned Tuesday night.

Building a Progress Bar that Doesn't
Progress

Building a Progress Bar that Doesn't
Progress 09/23/2004 12:55 AM
In many situations, accurately estimating the length of a certain process (copying a large file, loading data from a server, retrieving files from the Internet) would be both difficult and inefficient. What you end up with is a process that is going to take long enough to make the user wait, yet you have no easy way to indicate the percentage of the task that has completed. A regular progress bar would be rather meaningless, so you need some form of "Working…" indicator.

Baxa CEO Greg Baldwin Joins
Healthprolink Board of Directors

Baxa CEO Greg Baldwin Joins
Healthprolink Board of Directors 03/30/2005 04:27 AM
Greg Baldwin, Chairman and CEO of Baxa Corporation of Englewood, Colorado, has joined the Board of Directors for Healthprolink of Bellevue, Washington. Baxa Corporation, a privately held company, is a leader in serving hospital pharmacy systems for handling, packaging and administering liquid medications from oral to multi-ingredient IV. Baxa is a registered medical device manufacturer with the FDA and has sales in over 35 countries. [PRWEB Mar 30, 2005]

Audio Interview with Greg Hoglund and
Gary McGraw, Authors of "Exploiting
Software: How to Break Code"

Audio Interview with Greg Hoglund and
Gary McGraw, Authors of "Exploiting
Software: How to Break Code" 04/15/2004 10:17 AM

Baxa CEO Greg Baldwin Is Now Profiled at
the Expert Information for Journalists
Website and Available to Address
Selected Business Topics

Baxa CEO Greg Baldwin Is Now Profiled at
the Expert Information for Journalists
Website and Available to Address
Selected Business Topics 04/02/2005 04:22 AM
Greg Baldwin, Chairman and CEO of Baxa Corporation of Englewood, Colorado, is now profiled on the Expert Information For Journalists website – Expert411.com. Baxa Corp., a privately held company is a leader in serving hospital pharmacy systems for handling, packaging and administering liquid medications from oral to multi-ingredient IV. Baxa is a registered medical device manufacturer with the FDA and has sales in over 35 countries. [PRWEB Apr 2, 2005]

oai-pear

oai-pear 04/26/2004 07:40 AM
PEAR::OAI 0.4.1 Released

Introduction to PEAR

Introduction to PEAR 10/29/2003 02:21 AM
An introduction to PEAR with examples of using the Benchmark package.

PHP's PEAR on Mac OS X

PHP's PEAR on Mac OS X 01/21/2003 10:06 PM
The PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR) is an online repository of high-quality, peer-reviewed PHP classes that conform to a rigorous coding standard. In this article, Jason Perry shows you how to install, configure and use the PEAR Package Manager on Mac OS X 10.2

PEAR::PHPUnit 2-2.0.0

PEAR::PHPUnit 2-2.0.0 07/14/2004 01:51 AM
A regression testing framework for PHP 5.

PEAR::PHPUnit 2-2.0.3

PEAR::PHPUnit 2-2.0.3 09/27/2004 03:25 AM
A regression testing framework for PHP 5.

PEAR grows up: MDB

PEAR grows up: MDB 01/12/2003 01:36 PM
We met with the author of Metabase at the International PHP Conference 2001 and we talked about the benefits of having something like Metabase as part of the PEAR project. Shortly afterwards a discussion began once more in the PEAR mailing list about the potential benefits of a merge of PEAR DB and Metabase. After much discussion at my company we decided to take up this task. After several months of hard work we now have the first stable release of MDB. - Lukas Smith Lukas Smith has done a fine job with MDB and finally PEAR has a decent db abstraction library. Congrats! "zeldman.bardot2"

PEAR Out of Beta!

PEAR Out of Beta! 01/11/2003 09:10 AM
The PEAR development team is proud to announce that PEAR is finally out of its long beta period. As of PHP 4.3, the PEAR installer is installed by default. Unix support is considered stable, while Windows and Darwin are still of beta-quality.

PEAR::PHPUnit 1.0.2 (PHP 4)

PEAR::PHPUnit 1.0.2 (PHP 4) 09/21/2004 09:06 AM
A regression testing framework for PHP 5.

Comprehensive PHP PEAR::DB

Comprehensive PHP PEAR::DB 02/10/2004 02:46 AM
Overall, this is maybe a good and very helpful book if you are using, or plan to use, the PEAR::DB package. Although it does not cover the features that the PEAR::MDB package adds over PEAR::DB, the book may also be helpful if you are interested in PEAR::MDB as this package provides a compatible superset of the PEAR::DB features.

Without a pear, I improvise.

Without a pear, I improvise. 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
Many application developers shy away from database abstraction tools, in part because of the overhead and new APIs they have to learn, but also because it's difficult for those tools to port complex instructions and queries to each different RDBMS....

Instant XML with PHP and
PEAR::XML_Serializer

Instant XML with PHP and
PEAR::XML_Serializer 05/17/2004 04:46 AM
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Generating Spreadsheets with PHP and
PEAR

Generating Spreadsheets with PHP and
PEAR 04/15/2004 09:08 PM
WebmasterBase Apr 16 2004 1:49AM GMT

Building PHP Web services with PEAR

Building PHP Web services with PEAR 02/16/2004 11:54 AM
PHP -- short for PHP Hypertext Preprocessor -- was, along with Perl, one of the frontrunners in server-side programming long before any JSP/Servlet or ASP technology came to be. It is often the language of choice for those using Apache's Web server, which runs almost 70% of sites on the Web. Due to its pervasiveness, it seems obvious that it should support the most recent standards, such as SOAP, which are also adopted by major technology vendors. In this article, we will describe how Web services can be implemented in PHP.

Pear Versus ADOdb

Pear Versus ADOdb 11/25/2002 09:58 AM
Comparing Pear and ADOdb is one of those PHP things that we're all curious about. I haven't used it but I'd also look at Metabase (sorry for no link) since someone I respect technically really likes it. [ Go ]

Builder.com: Pinging with PHP and PEAR

Builder.com: Pinging with PHP and PEAR 07/01/2004 08:47 AM
On Builder.com today, there's a new article about creating a script to ping a remote host with PHP.

A Turning point for PEAR?

A Turning point for PEAR? 11/10/2003 10:52 PM
A posting in the php.pear.dev newsgroup by one of PEAR's leading developers. I think this is a very honest assessment, and I'm hopeful about this.

> From: Xavier Noguer [mailto:xnoguer#xavier-noguer.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 08, 2003 3:41 PM
 
> Martin Jansen <mj#php.net> escribió
> 
> > (http://pear.php.net/manual/en/developers.contributing.php)
> >
> > It is pretty funny to see how much developers have actually read
the
> > "Developers Guide" ...
> 
>  I've read that guide. I just don't seem to be able to take it
seriously
> when
> it lists requirements that have never, as far as I know, been voted
by the
> pear group or the developer community at large, such as regressions
tests
>
(http://cvs.php.net/diff.php/peardoc/en/guide/developers/contributing.
xml?
> r1=1.8&r2=1.9&ty=h)
I agree here.
While previous mistakes don't make a wrong a right, I think our whole
manual
lacks any consistent concept of what we really feel needs to happen
when and
where.
Anyways we have a bunch of messes that are a result of the long
period of
limited peer review, followed by a period of package inflation,
followed by
the today ruling confusion.
I think its time we fix our standards by starting from a clean
slate with a
PEAR2. There we can think about how to best deal with our developer
and
users base and how to great the best possible code in a PHP version
which
actually supports our needs for OOP.
PEAR1 should of course be maintained as we all have an interest to
keep that
code running and to use PEAR1 as a momentum towards a PEAR2 which
build on
the past experience.
<rant>
PEAR1 is now suffering from the fact that it focused from a long
period of
building technical foundations without planning the community growth
at the
same time. This has lead to numerous problems and is making us very
inefficient. Of course PEAR1 has a lot to offer, but I don't think we
are
scaling well and past mistakes seem to haunt us more and more, which
we
don't seem to be able to fix. So I think we need to recognize our past
which
we of course need to maintain to remain credible, but at the same time
we
should work to build a more scalable PEAR2 in which we can address our
issues on a clean slate.
</rant>
>  Would you be so kind to point me to the pear group document or
public
> discussion in which this requirement was approved?
There is no such decision I can remember.
As George pointed out we discussed this point in Amsterdam, however I
don't
remember that anyone decided on requiring documentation at first
commit.
However our decisions there were mostly only concepts and not
complete.
Anyways maybe someone should check when this was commited anyways.
Regards,
Lukas Smith

PHP Magazine: Comprehensive PHP PEAR::DB

PHP Magazine: Comprehensive PHP PEAR::DB 08/27/2004 01:35 PM
Over on PHP Magazine's website today, there's a new review of a book that all PEAR users (and even those looking to get into it) will find quite helpful.
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