This has been a very short summer ! I am writing this message with a feeling of accomplishment as this summer has been extremely productive. Every single day of the summer, voices in my head asked: what's next ? And right now, the answer seems to be a bright future for the Jaws 2 project.
I have to acknowledge that all the accumulated experience of Jaws 0.x has been a very close ally to me. I should also mention that without veteran developers like Jonathan Hernandez, Pablo Fischer and Helgi Thormar, I could never have achieved this level of code quality. The support from the community has been incredible. Thank you guys !
I also want to specially thank David Coallier, my mentor, who always provided valuable feedback and ideas. David always supported me during the whole summer and I don't think this experience would have been as successful as it was without him. Thanks David !
I remember my first checkout of the branch. 0 files, 0 lines, everything had to be done. This is where we stand right now: - 2542 physical lines of code (without whitespace and comments)
The summer has ended but my role as a Jaws developer is far from being a thing of the past. Such a positive experience encouraged me to stay active in the community. Right now, I have two goals. The first one is to work with the community to achieve a release of Jaws 2 as soon as PHP 6 is released. The second one is to write a similar message, in exactly one year, praising my community for all the great support I had during the summer as a student of the Jaws project. Yes, you've read correctly, as a student for the Jaws project: I don't have any doubts that next year, our project will be mature enough to deserve our own spots in the Summer of Code :-).
I wish everyone the best and thank you for this great summer again !
Nicolas Bérard-Nault
]]>This has been a very short summer ! I am writing this message with a feeling of accomplishment as this summer has been extremely productive. Every single day of the summer, voices in my head asked: what's next ? And right now, the answer seems to be a bright future for the Jaws 2 project.
I have to acknowledge that all the accumulated experience of Jaws 0.x has been a very close ally to me. I should also mention that without veteran developers like Jonathan Hernandez, Pablo Fischer and Helgi Thormar, I could never have achieved this level of code quality. The support from the community has been incredible. Thank you guys !
I also want to specially thank David Coallier, my mentor, who always provided valuable feedback and ideas. David always supported me during the whole summer and I don't think this experience would have been as successful as it was without him. Thanks David !
I remember my first checkout of the branch. 0 files, 0 lines, everything had to be done. This is where we stand right now: - 2542 physical lines of code (without whitespace and comments)
The summer has ended but my role as a Jaws developer is far from being a thing of the past. Such a positive experience encouraged me to stay active in the community. Right now, I have two goals. The first one is to work with the community to achieve a release of Jaws 2 as soon as PHP 6 is released. The second one is to write a similar message, in exactly one year, praising my community for all the great support I had during the summer as a student of the Jaws project. Yes, you've read correctly, as a student for the Jaws project: I don't have any doubts that next year, our project will be mature enough to deserve our own spots in the Summer of Code :-).
I wish everyone the best and thank you for this great summer again !
Nicolas Bérard-Nault
]]>I now want to bring your attention to another project, this one from Hannes Magnusson, Livedocs. Actually, it's not about Livedocs anymore.
If any of you ever edited the PHP manual, you know how a pain it is to only see your changes. The manual is extremely slow to build (takes about 4 hours on my computer). Livedocs was supposed to solve this issue but Hannes realised the goal of being the promised land of the PHP documentation was too much of an Herculean task for Livedocs.
This is where PhD comes into play. It is a new project under the PHP project umbrella that aims to generate Docbook documentation. It is developed by Hannes Magnusson and Gwynne Raskind and it's in a very experimental stage at the moment but I'm already using it when I edit the manual. It helps a lot as I can see the changes I make right away. Well... in about 3 minutes but hey, that's a lot better than 4 hours !
I don't have anymore excuses to not contribute to the documentation now !
Anyway, I invite you to check out that new project, it's really worth it !
Nicolas
]]>I now want to bring your attention to another project, this one from Hannes Magnusson, Livedocs. Actually, it's not about Livedocs anymore.
If any of you ever edited the PHP manual, you know how a pain it is to only see your changes. The manual is extremely slow to build (takes about 4 hours on my computer). Livedocs was supposed to solve this issue but Hannes realised the goal of being the promised land of the PHP documentation was too much of an Herculean task for Livedocs.
This is where PhD comes into play. It is a new project under the PHP project umbrella that aims to generate Docbook documentation. It is developed by Hannes Magnusson and Gwynne Raskind and it's in a very experimental stage at the moment but I'm already using it when I edit the manual. It helps a lot as I can see the changes I make right away. Well... in about 3 minutes but hey, that's a lot better than 4 hours !
I don't have anymore excuses to not contribute to the documentation now !
Anyway, I invite you to check out that new project, it's really worth it !
Nicolas
]]>I can't blame the Doctrine developers for not being so "cutting-edge" - even the PHP manual wasn't updated to include import, namespace and goto as reserved keywords. (of course, I took care of this).
A quick fix was to replace import() by imprt(), which is much more ugly, I agree.
And that's another reason PHP programmers must be aware of PHP 6...
]]>I can't blame the Doctrine developers for not being so "cutting-edge" - even the PHP manual wasn't updated to include import, namespace and goto as reserved keywords. (of course, I took care of this).
A quick fix was to replace import() by imprt(), which is much more ugly, I agree.
And that's another reason PHP programmers must be aware of PHP 6...
]]>One example of my erm... call it what you want: the Jaws_Registry::createKey() method, prior to my KISS-crackdown. It created a new key but also, if the path to the key did you exist, it created it. Pretty much like mkdir -r, but not really, because mkdir creates folders and createKey can create other types of keys. A one letter error in an application and you end up creating a bunch of useless folders. Bravo !
And then, you have Jaws_Registry::moveKey() which calls Jaws_Registry_Key::moveMe() which in the end calls Jaws_Registry_Key::moveSubkey(). Now you understand how I feel. It's bloated. And I have nobody to blame but me. Which is kindof the worst part in all this ;-).
But I promise this will be fixed !
Stay tuned !
Nicolas Bérard-Nault
]]>One example of my erm... call it what you want: the Jaws_Registry::createKey() method, prior to my KISS-crackdown. It created a new key but also, if the path to the key did you exist, it created it. Pretty much like mkdir -r, but not really, because mkdir creates folders and createKey can create other types of keys. A one letter error in an application and you end up creating a bunch of useless folders. Bravo !
And then, you have Jaws_Registry::moveKey() which calls Jaws_Registry_Key::moveMe() which in the end calls Jaws_Registry_Key::moveSubkey(). Now you understand how I feel. It's bloated. And I have nobody to blame but me. Which is kindof the worst part in all this ;-).
But I promise this will be fixed !
Stay tuned !
Nicolas Bérard-Nault
]]>And of course... more is coming soon ! Cheers,
Nicolas Bérard-Nault
]]>And of course... more is coming soon ! Cheers,
Nicolas Bérard-Nault
]]>I was waiting for a good occasion to give an update on my progress and here it is ! Jaws is now at revision 6666, thanks to my last commit. The static configuration subsystem along with the session subsystem are completed. I'm entering a critic phase of my project right now where all the decisions I take will affect the future developement of Jaws 2. I think I'll take one or two days to document what I've already done in the Trac wiki and start making some plans. Nothing to say really... I wish I were a superhuman but I guess we all have to sleep from time to time, even if we're computer geeks...
By the way, you can buzz me at anytime if you wish to make comments on the code. That's what opensource is all about isn't it ? Anyway, I appreciate the comments everybody made and I'm glad to have all this support from the community !
Cheers !
Nicolas Bérard-Nault
P.S.: My last commit was number 162 for me.
]]>I was waiting for a good occasion to give an update on my progress and here it is ! Jaws is now at revision 6666, thanks to my last commit. The static configuration subsystem along with the session subsystem are completed. I'm entering a critic phase of my project right now where all the decisions I take will affect the future developement of Jaws 2. I think I'll take one or two days to document what I've already done in the Trac wiki and start making some plans. Nothing to say really... I wish I were a superhuman but I guess we all have to sleep from time to time, even if we're computer geeks...
By the way, you can buzz me at anytime if you wish to make comments on the code. That's what opensource is all about isn't it ? Anyway, I appreciate the comments everybody made and I'm glad to have all this support from the community !
Cheers !
Nicolas Bérard-Nault
P.S.: My last commit was number 162 for me.
]]>I think I can safely say I'm making some progress !
]]>I think I can safely say I'm making some progress !
]]>I hear some of you saying What's up ? I haven't posted for a long time - that's not because I'm lazy, it's simply because I'm too busy ! I'll keep this post short 'n sweet. Here's a short update on my progress.
Succinct list of things I am working on right now:
Also, something great to mention, there's currently a vote on Jaws-PHP6's final name on the Jaws-Dev mailing list. If you have not cast your vote / voiced your opinion, do it as soon as possible ! More on that soon.
I also discussed a project idea I had that does not apply directly to my GSoC project (well, not yet) with Pablo Fischer. Basically, we'd like to great a big repository from which any user with an installed Jaws website could fetch/install/update new gadgets/themes/plugins automagically. That means each gadget/theme/plugin would have its own development and version number. The repository would also be available via the web and tarballs will be available for download for the website administrators that do not want the administration panel to take care of everything. I'll soon RFC on the mailing list and I hope you'll all give your ideas on how we could improve and implement this idea !
Finally, I filled in the Google summer of code mid-term survey today which means I'll soon get my second payment (of $2000 USD). Yep, that's great !
Nicolas Bérard-Nault
]]>I hear some of you saying What's up ? I haven't posted for a long time - that's not because I'm lazy, it's simply because I'm too busy ! I'll keep this post short 'n sweet. Here's a short update on my progress.
Succinct list of things I am working on right now:
Also, something great to mention, there's currently a vote on Jaws-PHP6's final name on the Jaws-Dev mailing list. If you have not cast your vote / voiced your opinion, do it as soon as possible ! More on that soon.
I also discussed a project idea I had that does not apply directly to my GSoC project (well, not yet) with Pablo Fischer. Basically, we'd like to great a big repository from which any user with an installed Jaws website could fetch/install/update new gadgets/themes/plugins automagically. That means each gadget/theme/plugin would have its own development and version number. The repository would also be available via the web and tarballs will be available for download for the website administrators that do not want the administration panel to take care of everything. I'll soon RFC on the mailing list and I hope you'll all give your ideas on how we could improve and implement this idea !
Finally, I filled in the Google summer of code mid-term survey today which means I'll soon get my second payment (of $2000 USD). Yep, that's great !
Nicolas Bérard-Nault
]]>It's pretty darn hot where I am right now and I can't get my ideas straight so I'll leave it to you to review my work [2] !
Thank you for all the support,
Nicolas Bérard-Nault.
[1] http://dev.jaws-project.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/.../SCHEMAS
[2] http://dev.jaws-project.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/.../Schema.php
]]>It's pretty darn hot where I am right now and I can't get my ideas straight so I'll leave it to you to review my work [2] !
Thank you for all the support,
Nicolas Bérard-Nault.
[1] http://dev.jaws-project.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/.../SCHEMAS
[2] http://dev.jaws-project.com/cgi-bin/trac.cgi/.../Schema.php
]]>I also implemented the import method in Doctrine [2]. Kudos to zYne- for his patience on teaching me proper Doctrine coding standards ;-).
All this kept me away from Jaws a little bit but I'm pluging right back in as we are speaking. More on that soon.
Cheers !
[1] http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.socket-recvfrom.php
[2] http://doctrine.pengus.net/trac/browser/trunk/lib/Doctrine/Import/Xml.php
]]>I also implemented the import method in Doctrine [2]. Kudos to zYne- for his patience on teaching me proper Doctrine coding standards ;-).
All this kept me away from Jaws a little bit but I'm pluging right back in as we are speaking. More on that soon.
Cheers !
[1] http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.socket-recvfrom.php
[2] http://doctrine.pengus.net/trac/browser/trunk/lib/Doctrine/Import/Xml.php
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