That Podcast have posted their last episode of 2014, The one to cap 2014. Join hosts Beau Simensen and Dave Marshall as they talk about the happenings of 2014 and a wide variety of other topics.

Beau and Dave wrap up 2014 discussing a bunch of stuff. Dave was too excited about Christmas to write something more descriptive for this sentence. This one too.

Topics mentioned in the episode include:

• the Dev Discussions project
• PHP South Coast Conference
• Code Climate
• Five Minutes with the PHP Bard
• CousCous
• PHP Package Checklist

...and many more. You can listen to this latest episode either through the in-page player or by downloading the mp3. If you enjoy the episode, be sure to subscribe to their feed too.

On PHPMaster.com today there's a new tutorial about a way to simulate cron jobs to dump the contents of a database with a simple script that fires off based on the last login time of a certain user (using the MySqlDumper tool).

My program required a accurate username and password to present its features to the user, and there is one predefined user who is idle most of the time and does just two things: wipe stale database entries and restore the database when needed. According to my login procedure, each time a user successfully logs in the system automatically updates the last login date to the current date. And that was the hint I desperately needed.

A brief snippet of code is included showing how he implemented the solution - MySQL commands and parameters defined in constants and called only when the last login time is less than "today".

As announced on the Symfony project's blog today, they are officially announcing the last release of the 1.0 series in favor of the 1.4 releases.

The 27th of January is kind of an important date in mankind history. Of course, everybody know it is the birthday of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and the date of the invention of the light-bulb by Thomas Edison. To this list, the core team is proud to add the last release of the symfony 1.0 branch: symfony 1.0.22.

It's been three years since the first release in the 1.0.x series was made and a lot of progress has come along since then (including a few other branches) including over 163,000 lines of code, 22 stable releases and more than 300 plugins. You can grab the latest from their 1.4.x series (currently 1.4.1) from thier download page either as a package or as a checkout from their Subversion repository.

With all of the flurry going around on the mailing lists for the Zend Framework development, it's easy to see how one could get lost. So, to help make sense of all of it, the Zend Developer Zone presents their second weekly roundup of all things Framework for the last week.

Wow, after 2 weeks of steady growth and activity, the mailing list traffic took a pause early this week. It looked like I was going to get a vacation but apparently last night everybody discovered the “Send” button and things kinda got out of hand. C’mon people, help me out here, I get paid by the word on these things. Post often, daddy needs a new Mac!

There's mention last week of: an Ajax extension, authorization/access control lists, the Zend_Registry extensions, a Japanese translation of the ZF manual, and the proposal of a Zend_Tree extension, and a large discussion on the integration of web services functionality into the framework.

With all of the flurry going around on the mailing lists for the Zend Framework development, it's easy to see how one could get lost. So, to help make sense of all of it, the Zend Developer Zone presents their second weekly roundup of all things Framework for the last week.

Wow, after 2 weeks of steady growth and activity, the mailing list traffic took a pause early this week. It looked like I was going to get a vacation but apparently last night everybody discovered the “Send” button and things kinda got out of hand. C’mon people, help me out here, I get paid by the word on these things. Post often, daddy needs a new Mac!

There's mention last week of: an Ajax extension, authorization/access control lists, the Zend_Registry extensions, a Japanese translation of the ZF manual, and the proposal of a Zend_Tree extension, and a large discussion on the integration of web services functionality into the framework.