New release of PEAR::Date_Holidays :: a programmer's best friend

Some minutes ago I released a new version of Date_Holidays (now it's version 0.13.0). This package is quite powerful in calculating holidays and other special days.

I am writing an article about it for the upcoming issue of the International PHP-Magazine. This gave me the reason to add some useful new features:

• I adapted some of the existing calculation drivers and added a new one that calculates the birthdates of the PHP geeks who sent me their date of birth (look at this)
• I implemented filter-objects that allow detailed filtering of the calculated holidays. This includes blacklists, whitelists and composite filters.

Big thanks goes to Stephan Schmidt who patiently proof-read the article and gave me some hints.

If you ever stumbled across the problem of calculating holidays and didn't find a good solution at all, this article will certainly be worth reading. I hope the people of the PHP-Magazine will provide it as online-article because it would be a great addition to the documentation of this package.