Category: Technology

I work in technology sector. And I do round a clock, not only from 9 to 5. It is my bread and butter, it is my hobby, it is the fascination of my life. And with the current rate of change particular in information technology (IT), there is always something new to learn, to try, to talk about. I often post news, thoughts, and reviews. And when I do, this is the category I use.

Claim to fame : phinx LONGBLOB

My largest claim to fame in the Open Source software just got merged in – a pull request to the phinx project, adding support for MySQL’s LONGBLOB (as well as TINYBLOB and MEDIUMBLOB).  Phinx is the PHP tool for database migrations.  It’s used, among others, by the CakePHP 3 framework.

The patch itself was rather simple and I was surprised that it hasn’t been done by someone else earlier (there was an open issue requesting this for more than a year).  Phinx already had support for BLOB, and for TINYTEXT, MEDIUMTEXT, TEXT, and LONGTEXT.  So practically all I had to do was a bit of copy-paste and find-replace.  Gladly, there were some unit tests in place already, preventing me from breaking a thing or two.

What I found interesting though, wasn’t the patch itself, but the support of the CakePHP community (thank you guys!).   Every few days someone (even core CakePHP developers) would “thumbs up” the pull request to draw the attention of the maintainer to it.  Some people pulled the branch and tested it.  Some wrote comments.  That was awesome and quite inspiring!

 

 

The worlds collide: jsphp and php.js

I guess we can consider the overlapping between PHP and JavaScript worlds complete.  Just within the last couple of days I separately and independently came across two different projects:

  • jsphp, which is a pseudo-implementation of the ECMA 262 standard (JavaScript 8.5.1) for PHP 5.3+
  • php.js, which is a resource that offers community-built JavaScript alternatives to PHP functions

So now you can use JavaScript-like stuff in PHP, and PHP-like stuff in JavaScript.  Boom!