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Xyster Build 6

Posted by Double Compile. Monday, May 19. 2008, 06:54 PM in Xyster

Build 6 of the Xyster Framework has been released. Tons of new features both in core and in incubator.

Please head over to the Xyster site and grab yourself a copy.

Ubuntu Hardy Heron Install Live Blog

Posted by Double Compile. Friday, April 25. 2008, 05:42 PM in GNU/Linux

Ubuntu 8.04 Hardy Heron came out yesterday. I meant to upgrade yesterday but, on a whim, I thought I'd install from scratch and live blog it. What follows is the result of that effort.

Did I mention I ordered the limited edition Hardy Heron t-shirt from the Canonical store? Because I did.

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Xyster Build 5

Posted by Double Compile. Wednesday, March 5. 2008, 07:50 PM in Xyster

Build 5 of the Xyster Framework has been released. This version includes more features in Xyster_Container and various other slight modifications. You'll also find a bit more user documentation.

Please head over to the Xyster site and grab yourself a copy.

Note that this version of the framework uses features in Zend Framework 1.5 which hasn't been released yet. You can get a snapshot of ZF from their download page.

Drupal 6.0 Released

Posted by Double Compile. Wednesday, February 13. 2008, 04:41 PM

Congratulations to the Drupal team on their release of Drupal 6.0! There are many changes under the hood, but perhaps the most instantly useful of which is their native support for OpenID.

Xyster Build 4

Posted by Double Compile. Sunday, January 20. 2008, 01:48 PM in Xyster

Build 4 of the Xyster Framework has been released. Most notable new feature: Xyster_Container, the dependency injection package.

Please head over to the Xyster site and grab yourself a copy.

Note that this version of the framework uses features in Zend Framework 1.5 which hasn't been released yet. You can get a snapshot of ZF from their download page.

Xyster Build 3

Posted by Double Compile. Monday, November 5. 2007, 10:34 AM in Xyster

The third build of the Xyster Framework is available for immediate (ab)use.

Please head over to the Xyster site to grab yourself a copy.

Xdebug and PHPUnit Flies

Posted by Double Compile. Tuesday, October 23. 2007, 02:19 PM in PHP

Taking note of blog entries from Derek Rethans and Sebastian Bergmann about speed improvements to PHPUnit's use of Xdebug for code coverage analysis, I obtained the latest copies of each.

Running the full code coverage report for all Xyster tests used to take about 15 minutes on my modest hardware.  The new versions of these libraries reduced that time to under 2 minutes.  I was floored.

Well done, boys!  Anyone running or using either library should definitely upgrade.

Xyster Build 2

Posted by Double Compile. Wednesday, October 10. 2007, 02:37 PM in Xyster

The second build of the Xyster Framework is available for mass consumption.

Please head over to the Xyster site to grab yourself a copy.

The API docs should be current, but the user manual won't be up until tomorrow or Friday.