The WSDL Blower: The state of SOAP in Zend Framework 1.6

There are all kinds of ways to expose APIs as web services. SOAP, XML-RPC, REST, JSON-RPC. Out of all of these, SOAP is arguably the most complex, but also one of the oldest ways to expose an API (I remember preliminary SOAP and WSDL support in Delphi 6, circa 2001).
Exposing an API as a web […]

Bugs in Phing on Windows

I use Phing to deploy my projects, and as they become more complex I expand on my use of Phing tasks. For instance, I have a ZIP archive of zip codes that Phing extracts and then imports into a database when deploying the application.
I maintain two development environments. One on a Linux server, and one […]

Ubuntu 8.04 on a Sony VAIO VGN-FE890

This is a follow-up to my Ubuntu post from a few days ago. I've tried out the final version of 8.04 LTS on my Sony VAIO laptop, and found that it didn't boot. Instead, after the Loading Kernel process bar reaches 100%, the only thing that appears on screen is:

[ 42.947514] ACPI: EC: […]

PHP 5.0.2

Earlier I saw that PHP 5.0.2 is available. PHP 5.0.1 didn't fix any of our problems. I skipped this one and went straight to PHP 5.1.0-CVS, which I tested on our dev server. Recompiled PHP5, restarted Apache, and so far it looks solid. Very nice. That means that we can hopefully migrate our software to […]

More PHP woes

Tried the latest CVS version (php5-200407261630). And applied the session patch which wasn't included yet. It seemed like it was running okay for about 15 seconds. Then I kept getting more segfaults. It's back to the old refcount issue. Having all the bugs at once makes it hard to isolate which patch fixes what, if […]