P3: 2008.03.06

Back on track, mostly. We had to use the crappy internal mic on my laptop, but it's better than shouting to the next town over... right?

Seems there's a serious audio problem in OS X 10.5.2 (which I unfortunately upgraded to). See this thread for more info )-:

Show Notes

Internals Report

• CLA the three little letters that destroyed PHP; Post by Wez: http://netevil.org/blog/2008/01/pdo-2-and-cla
• Conditional INI support
• Nowdocs
• Threading redux: Worker & PHP (threading saves memory)
• RE2C (regex buddy http://www.regexbuddy.com/)
• Traits - next time

C7Y Articles

• Late Static Bindings
• Improved JavaScript Validation
• Inspekt
• PHP on Windows
• Reflections and Rest

News

• Drupal 6 http://drupal.org
• Benchmarks of PHP Branches
• Seam Carving w/ Image Magick
• Jan PHP Stats PHP 5 will overtake PHP 4 by May!

More on re2c and lemon:

Understanding Opcodes: http://blog.libssh2.org/index.php?/archives/92-Understanding-Opcodes.html
Talks about the use of scanners and parsers (what re2c and lemon are implementations of), specifically how they relate to the Zend Engine.

re2c is no lemon: http://blog.libssh2.org/index.php?/archives/19-re2c-is-no-lemon.html
My project using re2c/lemon (PDO_User)