a programmer's best friend :: Entries from February 2004

Wampserver released the first version of WAMP5, a Windows installer that includes Apache, MySQL and PHP5 beta 4. The package is available in two versions (full and light): one with MySQL and phpMyAdmin and one without these components.

This allows novice users to explore the new features of PHP5.

The package can be downloaded from their website at www.wampserver.com.

Today I installed BugZilla on our server. We will use this tool to track all bugs for all of our projects. The current installation may frighten users that are not familiar with BugZilla, we will be working on the user interface during the next days/weeks.

If you want to report a bug for our tools, just visit bugs.php-tools.net.

I just proposed a new PEAR package to PEPr, that allows easy creation of XUL documents. XUL is an XML application that's supported by Mozilla and that allows you to build graphical user-interfaces that can be rendered by the browser. They can be skinned with CSS and enriched with Javascript.

Follow these links for more information:

• XULPlanet, for information on XUL
• Proposal on PEAR Website
• Online Examples
• Download PEAR package

I hope this package will make it into PEAR, as imho XUL is one of the coolest things that happened to the web.

Our friendly little dog finally takes part in the new hype and starts his own blog. With the help of his favourite programmers argh, gERD and schst, he will inform you what's going on in his life and the PHP Application Tools Team.

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