We have new hardware and are in the process of assembling our new cluster. Today we sat down and started to map out the future of dod.

Mostly a bug fix release. It can be downloaded at the PECL page.

The Drizzle PHP Extension development has now been moved over to PECL. This should open the extension up to a wider audience of eager developers. This release contains several major changes. First I have updated the extension so that it should compile on any PHP v5.0 and later. Another major change is the CamelCaps method names and reflection support. I am in the process of some code reorginization and after that I hope to get the documentation in full swing. Please try it out and report any bugs.

Reflection Output

I released a new version of the Gearman extension this week.  This was mainly a bug fix release. It can be downloaded from PECL. I have also started to work on documentation, and hope to have those published soon.

Just published the new gearman php extension on pecl. All new development to the extension will be done via pecl, including source control, and bug reports. Major highlights of this release are conformance to php and pecl standards, addition of arginfo (used for Reflection), and a few bug fixes. Part of the php conformance was renaming a few methods/functions to names that follow the php coding standards. I hope this is not a huge inconvenience to anyone already using the extension. Another large change is most functions now return True/False and return values should now be checked with $obj->returnCode(). This was done to reduce the number of functions that returned lists.

You can download the new extension from PECL.

Also Gearman now has drizzle/MySQL/etc backed persistant queues! I am excited to try them out and will likely update the gearman.org website with a fancy php use case. You can read more about them on Eric Day’s blog or on the Gearman website.

Next up drizzle php extension

First release of gearman-php-extension is available for download from launchpad. There is also a new quick start tutorial posted on the gearman.org website.

I have started to document the project in preparation of getting the extension into the pecl  repository. I encourage people to start using the extension, and post any bugs to launchpad.

Have fun!

-James

Me shortly after asking Kat to marry me…