a programmer's best friend :: Entries from Saturday, September 24. 2005

This week, I finally managed to upgrade our server to the latest version of Chiara_PEAR_Server, which is now uses REST instead of XML-RPC. Besides all the new features this enables in our channel, one huge advantage of using REST is that I finally could add our channel to pearadise.net.

pearadise.net is the channel aggregation portal for PEAR compliant channel servers. So if you are looking for a package that solves a specific problem you do not need to search for this package on every website that offers, PEAR packages. You just go to pearadise.net and browse the listings of all channels that are registered there. If you are even more lazy than the average developer, you just use the search functionality offers. For example, if you are looking for a template engine, you just search for "template engine" using the form the website offers and it will list you all "official" template engines as well as Smarty and our own patTemplate.

There are already seven channels registered, which is really great, as the site is still in beta-state and PEAR 1.4.0, which brought us the channel features is only stable for a few days.

The developer behind pearadise.net is Tobias 'toby' Schlitt, who is well-known in the PEAR community for his work on the PEAR website and several PEAR packages. He is also a member of the PEAR-QA-Core-Team, so you can all rest assured that this new project of his will surely improve over the next time and will soon be the number one site to search for re-useable PEAR components. If you are maintaining a PEAR compliant channel, make sure to register your channel at pearadise.net.