http://www.pinetd.net/index.php looks like a pretty interesting project, I have wanted to make a multi-theaded php XML socket server for a long time but interprocess communication was always a sticking point.

Anyway, if you plan on playing with this it has a few quirks..

It requires php 5.3, so you have to have a box you can compile non release software on.. If you do visit http://qa.php.net

And for those of using the Solar framework or any other framework that uses the following url format your typekey login system is now broke..

Luckly its an easy fix!

Typekey is now Typepad and there new system currently pukes on the link generated by the Solar_View_Helper_Typekey link generator.

To fix change your link change the config for href from

"https://www.typekey.com:443/t/typekey/login"

to

"https://www.typekey.com/t/typekey/login"

Yes, shouldn't make a diffrence but it does.. One gives you a blank white screen, the other a new login box.

Having a problem getting http://www.aleksey.com/xmlsec/ to work? try using the below configuration string change the openssl path as needed.

This is mainly for those who dislike Darwin ports and/or prefer to do there own compiling.. you will need the openssl library for this use case.

Here is a quick reference list to a ton of Solar Framework Articles around the web.

Going to go through a quick walk through of how to use a hacked together version of my old jquery library with solar. You can find the class source files Here

With my new job I have been using Solar a lot and learning something new at every corner. This is my attempt to document some of those things I run into that may not be in the manual yet, may not be clear or may just be useful to all.

There has been a flurry of work around Firebug recently including announcements that Zend Framework and Symfony both now have Firebug logging support through the use of the Firephp. As of this weekend Solar can be added to the list with its own support.

I have been critical of ZF in the past because the performance has pretty much been going down every release and I am not the only one seeing this, there have been a number of benchmarks that show this trend.

Having contributed to ZF in the past I brought this issue up multiple times both on the mailing list and even during the meetings the past zendcons and it the general response was they where focusing on features not performance.

I have said it before, you can not give a blind eye to performance or you will go down a road that is hard to get back from.

Been playing around with the latest Solar Framework trunk svn install. Its something I have done in the past with FlashUnity in that you provide an svn directory that has the proper directory structure and external links to quickly bring in a working copy of the application.

Anyway I wanted to do some basic profiling with Xdebug but now that I am on a mac I don't have an easy way to view the cachegrind files. With Xdebug 1.x I used to use a pop up window to directly output the results of the profiling but this option was removed in 2.x.

Yes I have the BrokerBin module in my local lab but its use is pretty limited outside of a certain subset of users so I haven't bothered to package it up and submit it to drupal.

Instead I just committed some code to the following module http://drupal.org/project/yui_tabview which uses the YUI Yahoo module to enable pretty tabs like the ones used on the services page of this Blog.