Last Month in PHP, August 2012

@dan_holmes did his best to fill in for @johnkary this month. PHP Features, framework releases, free skill building opportunities, and more. This month, in Last Month in PHP.

1. Last Month in PHP August 18, 2012 Kansas City PHP User Group Slides: http://kcpug.org Dan Holmes @dan_holmes
2. Releases
3. New PHP Versions • PHP 5.4.5 • PHP 5.3.6 Bug fixes segfault fixes readline compile fix (5.4) Changelog available at: http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php
4. PHP's Finally was approved (5.5?) "finally" support being added to try / catch block https://wiki.php.net/rfc/finally You can get more of an idea about Finally here: http://sheriframadan.com/2012/08/finally-keyword-in-php/
5. Frameworks
6. Symfony 2.1 RC1 • Focus on Composer • Form & form speed • Validator Almost a year to the date of the release of 2.0 Bug fixes from here to release so grab and test! Upgrade paths documented at: https://github.com/symfony/symfony- standard/blob/master/UPGRADE.md
7. Zend Framework 2.0.0rc 2 AND 3 • Zend\Http • Zend\EventManager\ SharedEventManager • Zend\Form\Annotation: Form annotation builder • Zend\Mvc\Controller • Zend\Feed • PSR-2 compatible Team plans weekly RC's starting with RC1 Rob Allen is keeping his tutorial up to date if you want to get in and play! http://akrabat.com/ zend-framework-2-tutorial/ ZF 2 documentation project is looking for volunteers! http://devzone.zend.com/2463/zf2-documentation-we-want-you/
8. FuelPHP 2.0 Alpha/Beta • Kernel - 2.0.0-beta1 • Core - 2.0.0-alpha1 • Oil - 2.0.0-alpha1 • DiC - 1.0.0-beta1 • Validation - 1.0.0-beta Since going to composer, FuelPHP is versioned at the component level. This is so modules like validation can be used anywhere! No official docs yet. • Readme • Wiki
9. Skill Building
10. Chris Hartjes: 5 Minute TDD This is the part where we shame Lisa into reading that book she won
11. Chris Hartjes: 5 Minute TDD
12. Chris Hartjes: 5 Minute TDD Watch and listen to a TDD master as he starts from nothing to tested object in 5 minutes. Learn more about TDD from Chris! http://www.grumpy-testing.com/
13. Free Webinar of the month! Free Getting Started with ZF2 Webinar! http://www.zend.com/en/company/news /event/1112_webinar-getting-started-with-zf2 Matthew Weier O'Phinney August 29, 2012 at 11:00am CST
14. Lorna Jane: Skills Allied to PHP Lorna Jane Mitchell will be speaking at PHPNW on some of the other skills we devs need • Source Control • Static Analysis (phpDocumentor, phpMD, etc) • Performance Profiling • Deployment • Sysadmin skills If you are in the UK this October, go see her talk. Otherwise, use this as a roadmap to go do some of your own learning!
15. Notable Links
16. MWOP on Micro-frameworks Matthew Weier O'Phinney (ZF/ZF2 fame) shares his thoughts on microframeworks buy building one in an afternoon with ZF2 • What defines them • What they are good for • Where the idea came from • How to build one from "scratch" It's at least a thought-provoking read http://mwop.net/blog/2012-08-17-on-microframeworks.html
17. Still noteworthy http://phpmentoring.org http://www.phptherightway.com/
18. Updates? Questions? Comments? @dan_holmes Thank you! And yes, John will be back next month! Woot!