So I’m trying to regain my sanity, really trying 
Yet I’m still watching old episodes of South Park :\
I found a neat hack to keep up to date on the latest work on eZ components via this rss feed, though this link is more complete, I’ll be adding this to my ezpublish.opml file shortly. I’ll see if I can’t find any other eZ publish related rss feeds to add to the opml file at the same time.
Man, what a tuff call … what do I love more eZ publish or OPML 
, prolly eZ publish cause I can make it generate opml.
//graham
South Park - 7×03 - Toilet Paper
Google says … the word of the day is : auspicious: favorable; also, prosperous; fortunate.
Updated!: I have added a demo of svn running on php 5.0.5, php5.demo.ezcommunity.net
We are looking for several other users and developers in the eZ publish 2 community to sponsor the development, documentation and release of php4.4 -> php5.1 improvements to eZ publish 2.3. Contact Brookins Consulting for more information.
Backstory …
I was working on some server administration this weekend (very hush hush mumbojumbo ).
I started thinking about using eZ publish 2 on versions of PHP greater than 4.3.9, say like 4.4.x or even php 5.0.x
I have been meaning to checkout eZ publish 2.3 (svn) and do a little more work to the community build in svn, review extra modules in svn as contributions, give a little more back to the community. (Is anyone even listening or care anymore 
) No matter I do what I do and so will you.
Results of testing at first glance (php5) ..
- As normal with eZ publish 2 (on newer versions of php 4). eZ publish 2 generates a lot of php `warnings` in the httpd error log file.
- It seems that many of the index page errors (running under php5) are of a more serious nature than normal php4 warnings
Seems that several new kinds of `warnings`, `notices` and `fatal errors`.
1) PHP Notice: Trying to get property of non-object
2) PHP Warning: Call-time pass-by-reference has been deprecated - argument passed by value;
3) PHP Fatal error: Cannot redeclare eZOnline::$OnlineTypeID
4) PHP Notice: Undefined variable: (most common)
5) PHP Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() (second most common)
It seems that the core of eZ publish 2 has a number of places in the software code which are dependant on depricated PHP features, functionality, syntax, etc.
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I saw this interesting post this morning on digg and software-quality blog. Ideas to guide us all in the quality of our work in life.
Basics of the Unix Philosophy
From Eric Raymond’s “The Art of Unix Programming” I picked here the 17 rules described as the Basics of the Unix Philosophy. For me these are also rules for writing high quality software:
Rule of Modularity: Write simple parts connected by clean interfaces.
Rule of Clarity: Clarity is better than cleverness.
Rule of Composition: Design programs to be connected with other programs.
Rule of Separation: Separate policy from mechanism; separate interfaces from engines.
Rule of Simplicity: Design for simplicity; add complexity only where you must.
Rule of Parsimony: Write a big program only when it is clear by demonstration that nothing else will do.
Rule of Transparency: Design for visibility to make inspection and debugging easier.
Rule of Robustness: Robustness is the child of transparency and simplicity.
Rule of Representation: Fold knowledge into data, so program logic can be stupid and robust.
Rule of Least Surprise: In interface design, always do the least surprising thing.
Rule of Silence: When a program has nothing surprising to say, it should say nothing.
Rule of Repair: Repair what you can — but when you must fail, fail noisily and as soon as possible.
Rule of Economy: Programmer time is expensive; conserve it in preference to machine time.
Rule of Generation: Avoid hand-hacking; write programs to write programs when you can.
Rule of Optimization: Prototype before polishing. Get it working before you optimize it.
Rule of Diversity: Distrust all claims for one true way.
Rule of Extensibility: Design for the future, because it will be here sooner than you think.
Or even rules for living a high quality life !
I saw this come through my mail this morning.
A very interesting (to me, heh, only) prolly look at
eZ systems, eZ publish and the PHP community
and their sampleing, interaction and usage of each
other’s work.
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