A colleague reminded me that it's been over 5 months since the last time I posted something on this blog. I never really have been a blog person, and most likely never will be. Writing a blog post is hard enough in itself, let alone writing it in your non-native language, and things are not that much better in my other blog which is actually in my native language.
What kept me from writing something recently is by no means a secret. I bet most of you have heard about Iran's tenth presidential election which was held in June, and its aftermath. It's not something you want to be part of, or even to observe. In my childhood, Iran was in a war with Iraq ... I barely remember anything from that time, but I could tell what happened in recent months here in Iran (and mostly in Tehran) was worse than the war. War with Iraq ... it was sad, but it was all about militaries, about foreigners, but not compatriots killing each other. Let me tell you, nothing is worse than seeing a 16 years old plainclothes boy (which is of course authorized by governor) hitting people with a baton.
And I'd like to thank everyone in the community which I'm proud to be part of, the PHP community (and PEAR folks in particular). Great guys like Daniel O'Connor, Christian Weiske, Chuck Burgress, Brett Bieber (which unsurprisingly are all elected again to be part of PEAR group for 2009 and 2010) and ... I just could say, Thanks for showing concern and suggesting ways to support.
- Marc Jacobs White Clutch
- Louis Vuitton Patent Yellow Sandals
- Louis Vuitton Grey Suede Sneakers
- Chanel Red Ballerina Flats
- Burberry Golden Westcott Shoulder Bag
- Bottega Veneta Red Messenger Bag
- Givenchy Black Shoulder Bag
- Givenchy Red Printed Sacca Tote
- Chloe Beige Paddington Wallet
- Jimmy Choo Glenys Watersnake Sandals
- Herve Leger Red
Friday, August 21. 2009
Status update
Friday, July 25. 2008
PEAR bash completion
Lately I've been playing alot with the PEAR CLI. The one annoying thing I noticed the most was its lack of tab completion that I'm used to from the shell. It turns out that this feature is very easy to add, in the bash at least. Here (Update: Now it's in PEAR SVN repository) is a simple tab completion script for the bash. In addition to completing the PEAR commands and their respective options, it can even autocomplete the names of installed packages and discovered PEAR channels. Just source it, and enjoy
Wednesday, September 27. 2006
PEAR without Pierre?
Saturday, September 2. 2006
Updating PEAR Services_Ebay
Sunday, July 30. 2006
phpbitch
phpbitch finally bought a house!
If you're intrested in IRC and bots phpbitch could be a nice new friend.
There's an Installation Guide and more will be soon to follow.
phpbitch has a lot of modules, like:
- Google: Search google right in your channel
- Brain: Train it to answer user's questions or guide them
- PHP Manual lookup: Get php functions info right whithin your channel
- trac: integrate trac within your channel, tickets (status, description, time), commits (log message, author, time) and roadmap progress
- and more ...
Feel free to create new tickets and feature requests.
P.S: I'm lending a hand on another PEAR Package, Validate.Sunday, July 2. 2006
PEAR Services_Ebay
eBay developers program:
The popular PEAR Services_Ebay is not unified schema compliant. Unfortunately, the author of this package is currently unable to update it. If you are interested in migrating this code to our unified schema, please post a list on the "dev" mailing list to help coordinate our community efforts.
Well, when I saw the above I just decided to bring this popular package back to the production. After submitting some patches, Arnaud and Pierre (resp. QA and PEAR Group) decided to give me the lead and removed the "not maintained" state, so I'm its new lead
The blinking point in this package is, how it is written. An awesome piece-of code by Stephan Schmidt. (nothing weird, really shining)
eBay's legacy XML API was less nested and in result setters had a great role in this package, but now high-deep elements has made the role of setters colorless and when I (and PEAR) care a lot about the BC, I've forced to override in some Calls.
eBay has done the migration process easy with providing complete manuals for developers, and that makes the migration less harmful.
Nearly everything has changed in the new API, taken from authentification to the events tracker. Although struggling with it was (is) a real pain but it's my first deep experience with enterprise web-services, funny moments.
Another thing that I'm wondering about is, to write a new mozilla extension for browsing eBay. Thanks to XUL for providing tools for a great interface, XPCom for letting me do cross-domain JavaScript requests and finally E4X (so the extension would be a FF 1.5+ one).
I'm not eager to use eBay's SOAP web-service and then using built-in SOAP support, I want to use my experiences with XML API but this time in a completely different environment.
P.S: patches or feedbacks about PEAR Services_Ebay are welcome.Sunday, June 18. 2006
Net_SmartIRC & phpbitch
