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Thursday, July 31. 2008

Client side migration from CVS to SVN

Migration from CVS to SVN is often described on the repository server side only. When migrating you would normally delete your CVS working copies and check out a fresh one from SVN. However in case of a live website you may not want to reinstall the entire working copy (including locally changed configuration files and unversioned files). Reinstalling the website may cost time, increase server load and cause website downtime.

To overcome this problem you can convert the working copy from a CVS working copy to an SVN working copy, by replacing the CVS meta data with SVN meta data directories in your working copy:

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Posted by Guido van Biemen at 07:17 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)
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Tuesday, July 8. 2008

T minus one

It's July the 8th.

Today I realized that we're exactly one month away from 8-8-8, the final blow to PHP4.

Last december, the community already stopped support for PHP4, but until the 8th of August, at least security fixes would still be done. If nothing has changed in the meantime, and I didn't read any evidence to the contrary, in 31 days from now,security fixes will no longer be provided for PHP4.


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Posted by Ivo Jansch in planetphp at 17:00 | Comments (3) | Trackbacks (0)
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Tuesday, March 18. 2008

DPC 2008, the votes go to: what's new in PHP6

After announcing Derick Rethans as the most requested PHP Guru in the Call for Ideas for the Dutch PHP Conference, we are now announcing the most requested topic: PHP6 (and, if not released by the time of the conference, the upcoming PHP 5.3 release).

The talk will not only cover the new features of PHP6, but also addresses what you can do in your apps right now, to smooth the transition later. In other words, tips 'n tricks to keep your code 'portable' across versions.

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