fidzu : php

Four version control systems in three files, a hardcoded root password we decided not to airbrush, and a surprising amount of today's stack already in place. In the oldest corner of our static file mirrors sits a directory called alpha3, and in it three shell scripts dated 20 November 2009 - older than the public BOA repository itself, whose GitHub history only starts in January 2010. These are the scripts Barracuda & Octopus grew from: one installs the Ægir layer on a VPS, one upgrades it with cron stopped and a backup taken first, and one builds a whole menu of 2009-era Drupal platforms, from Open Atrium to ManagingNews. Now published byte for byte on our docs site, with a guided tour of what survived, from the /data/disk tree to the /dev/ delivery path.

29 Aug 2026 5:05pm GMT

It's time to prepare your Drupal modules for Admin's dark mode mherchel Fri, 08/28/2026 - 12:04

28 Aug 2026 4:04pm GMT

WebMCP is an emerging proposal for cooperation between a web page and a browser agent. It is not a new name for MCP and it is not a replacement. A practical rule is simple: MCP belongs near servers and data; WebMCP belongs near the live page and the workflow the user can see. At the end of August 2026, WebMCP is not something every production website should rush into every form. But it is worth understanding now, because the direction is right: an AI agent should not have to guess buttons and click through a website like a brittle automation script. A web application can declare which actions an agent may use and what structured inputs those actions expect. That distinction matters. A normal browser agent sees a page roughly as a user or automation tool sees it: headings, form fields,…

28 Aug 2026 6:00am GMT

Reprise was introduced on this blog a few weeks ago, and the pitch has not changed: it is a thin plugin, not a build tool. Vite and Rsbuild do the real work (bundling, hashing, source maps, HMR, the dev server); Reprise only adds the Symfony glue they leave…

26 Aug 2026 2:41pm GMT

On August 17, we announced Symfony Language Tools, the official Symfony language server. Six days and ten releases later, version 0.16 is out. We have added a lot of features: the server now understands applications that look less like Symfony Demo and more…

23 Aug 2026 11:04am GMT

This week, Symfony 6.4.44, Symfony 7.4.17 and Symfony 8.1.5 maintenance versions were released. In addition, we introduced Symfony Language Tools, the official Symfony LSP server. Finally, we started experimenting with issue-first open source contributions.…

23 Aug 2026 7:54am GMT

Last week I helped the folks at ezSystems debug some APC problems they were having. The problems ended up being a 64bit architecture problem (they have uber-fast Opterons) and the bug is now fixed in 2.0.3.

Today I received Python & XML from them (off my Amazon wishlist). Thanks guys!

On a side note, my wishlist seems borked. The list I get when I search on my email address or name is not the same one I can edit when I log into the site.

01 Apr 2004 6:53pm GMT

1st of April 2004 get's to it's end and I guess it's time, to summarize the recent April fools a bit. Not that I think anyone in the world believes in them, but some were quite funny:

1. Changes to case sensitivity in PHP.
Alan Knowles announced that PHP will change to the studlyCase API and therefor will get everything broken by changing established functions.

2. IBM takes over Zend.
Myself hacked a little article about IBM taking over Zend to make PHP a compete of Java.

3. The first PHP virus has been seen.
Wasn't there one last year, too?

4. PHP has been overtaken by Micro$oft.
Mhhh... a little bit unreliable, if they had been taken over by IBM this morning... Maybe one should first look, what others wrote...

5. And finally, PHP4 and 5 showed their real faces...
Take a look at a phpinfo() output!

I guess I missed some, so feel free to comment on this entry, if you found another!

01 Apr 2004 5:49pm GMT

Symantec have a report of the virus here. I've yet to see any of the PHP news sites picking up on it but, using a virtual host account, managed to deliberately expose some PHP scripts to it. From examining the infected scripts, what's disturbing is once infected, every tim...

01 Apr 2004 12:19pm GMT