312. PHP 7.1 Features PCO for Cryptography like PDO is for Database - Lately in PHP podcast episode 63
Updated on: 2015-09-14
Posted on: 2015-09-14
A recent proposal for PHP 7.1 aims to create a new extension named PCO (PHP Cryptography Objects) for data encryption, decryption, signing, etc.. It will be like what PDO (PHP Database Objects) is for database access.
The discussion about the PCO extension was one the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 63 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on other PHP 7.1 features in discussion like having visibility modifiers for class constants, shorter closure function declarations, and having random value generation functions throwing exceptions.
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The discussion about the PCO extension was one the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 63 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on other PHP 7.1 features in discussion like having visibility modifiers for class constants, shorter closure function declarations, and having random value generation functions throwing exceptions.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Updated on: 2015-08-31
Posted on: 2015-08-27
This is the August edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of May 2015.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Updated on: 2015-08-18
Posted on: 2015-08-17
Recently researchers from Google and Intel have approached the PHP core developers to offer to contribute to PHP development by implementing features that will make PHP fast and more secure.
These Google and Intel researchers help offers and their first proposals was one the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 62 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on a proposal for having type hinting in class variables in future PHP 7 versions, new reports that show how PHP 7 performance is improving on day by day basis, as well other PHP 7 feature proposals.
They also commented on the latest PHP tutorial articles and book reviews published in the last month.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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These Google and Intel researchers help offers and their first proposals was one the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 62 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on a proposal for having type hinting in class variables in future PHP 7 versions, new reports that show how PHP 7 performance is improving on day by day basis, as well other PHP 7 feature proposals.
They also commented on the latest PHP tutorial articles and book reviews published in the last month.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Updated on: 2015-08-16
Posted on: 2015-07-21
A recent article in the NGINX blog claims that its thread pools feature can enhance the performance by 9 times of that Web server.
PHP core developers have been debating the pros and cons of implementing a new SAPI to make PHP work as NGINX module and hopefully take advantage of the thread pools feature to enhance PHP request serving performance.
This was one the topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 61 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on the latest PHP 7 alpha and beta versions, PHP 5.4 EOL and PHP 5.5 releases going into security fixes mode, the 20 years of PHP and 16 years of the PHP Classes site, and many interesting PHP articles and book reviews published recently.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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PHP core developers have been debating the pros and cons of implementing a new SAPI to make PHP work as NGINX module and hopefully take advantage of the thread pools feature to enhance PHP request serving performance.
This was one the topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 61 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on the latest PHP 7 alpha and beta versions, PHP 5.4 EOL and PHP 5.5 releases going into security fixes mode, the 20 years of PHP and 16 years of the PHP Classes site, and many interesting PHP articles and book reviews published recently.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Updated on: 2015-07-16
Posted on: 2015-07-16
This is the July edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of April 2015.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Updated on: 2015-06-16
Posted on: 2015-06-16
With the latest experiments with the Feedback Directed Optimization patch, it is possible that PHP 7 will be event 10% faster than the implementation with other optimizations already implemented for PHP 7.0.
That was one the topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 60 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on proposals for future PHP versions like having a numeric type hint, options for preloaded scripts, making Libsodium a core extension for applications that need cryptography, the updated roadmap for PHP 7.0.0 and creating a new branch for PHP 7.1 development.
They also talked about the latest PHP tutorial articles and book reviews published lately on the site.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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That was one the topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 60 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on proposals for future PHP versions like having a numeric type hint, options for preloaded scripts, making Libsodium a core extension for applications that need cryptography, the updated roadmap for PHP 7.0.0 and creating a new branch for PHP 7.1 development.
They also talked about the latest PHP tutorial articles and book reviews published lately on the site.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Updated on: 2015-07-15
Posted on: 2015-06-10
This is the June edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of March 2015.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Updated on: 2015-05-18
Posted on: 2015-05-18
When PHP 7 will be released it will have the mysql extension removed from the core distribution. PHP 5.4 will stop being updated. Many PHP developers will have to move to PHP version 5.5 or higher, on which the mysql extension is deprecated. Many shared hosting providers already use PHP 5.5 without the mysql extension.
Alternative solutions to deal with legacy code that relies on the old mysql extension was one the topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 59 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on proposals for future PHP versions like fixing the division by zero issue, adding static constructors to classes, the PHP RFC Watch site to keep up with new PHP proposals and voting.
They also explained the new initiative to promote reviews of books of authors that have written books of interest for PHP developers, as well writing great PHP tutorial articles for the PHP Classes blog and being compensated for that. The latest tutorial articles were also reviewed here.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Alternative solutions to deal with legacy code that relies on the old mysql extension was one the topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 59 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on proposals for future PHP versions like fixing the division by zero issue, adding static constructors to classes, the PHP RFC Watch site to keep up with new PHP proposals and voting.
They also explained the new initiative to promote reviews of books of authors that have written books of interest for PHP developers, as well writing great PHP tutorial articles for the PHP Classes blog and being compensated for that. The latest tutorial articles were also reviewed here.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Updated on: 2015-06-10
Posted on: 2015-05-13
This is the May edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of February 2015.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Updated on: 2015-04-23
Posted on: 2015-04-22
According to the proposed PHP 7.0 timeline, on March 16 started a period on which there will be only finalization and testing of the implementation of proposed features.
This was one the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 58 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on important approved features like the scalar type hinting, exceptions in the engine, anonymous classes, and the proposal to have consistent function names.
They also talked about interesting articles like one about urgent maintenance tasks site owners need to perform, improving MongoDB applications with Symfony listeners and creating PHP daemon services.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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This was one the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 58 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on important approved features like the scalar type hinting, exceptions in the engine, anonymous classes, and the proposal to have consistent function names.
They also talked about interesting articles like one about urgent maintenance tasks site owners need to perform, improving MongoDB applications with Symfony listeners and creating PHP daemon services.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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