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tutorial: writing a simple file converter

Oktay Acikalin — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 13:52:23 -0000

for everybody who would like to know how you could do this with aurora should have a look at it.

in short it demonstrates how to use the following handy features:

* ext.mod call style
* config/boot/extmod_drop_duplicates
* signals
* xml and yaml helper

aurora 0.9.6 released

Oktay Acikalin — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 21:43:46 -0000

today we celebrate another neat release of aurora :). this time the motto was all around bug-fixing, stabilizing and grinding the corners. apart from this, some significant things have changed under the hood:

- .htaccess won't be written automatically anymore
- auth, db, model and validation have been extracted into a plugin
- optional extension.method call style
- external calls with extmod
- support colliding method names across extensions
- semi caching while in development environment
- calling methods from appl or lib emit signals
- adaptive template rendering
- user-definable open basedirs

read the full story here:
http://feedntrack.de/l/1/w8a81

aurora 0.9.5 released

Oktay Acikalin — Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:31:44 -0000

this release brings us a brand new plugin-system already featuring a bunch of useful bits and pieces ( jquery, blueprint, google analytics, firephp etc. ) and renders aurora_contrib obsolete - finally!

other highlights are:

- benchmarking via testcases
- some new assert-methods
- anonymous template blocks
- an interactive command line interface
- lots of other stuff mentioned in the changelog

http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?group_id=203287&release_id=607124

twitter, code'n'stuff

Oktay Acikalin — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 19:43:04 -0000

yes, we're infected too :). we use twitter to talk about prototypes, apis and much more stuff about aurora. today we decided to create an official account for this so that we can post interesting stuff in a dedicated place.

we kick off with a nice theme cubique has created and we're using for about a month now.

let's see how this evolves: http://twitter.com/auroraframework

aurora 0.9.4.1 released

Oktay Acikalin — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 19:34:16 -0000

this time some work has gone into internal cleanup thus concentrating on bugfixes and making corners round. along this a new sub-directory called helpers have formed which contain basic routines for handling test-diffs, json, yaml, xml and csv quite easily. finally all assert-methods have gone into an assert-helper allowing to write for example assert::equal ( $a, $b ).

i've also updated the testcase and signals examples to show the new api. the rest of the time i'm working on the new db-api which already can do complex selects using prepared statements thru pdo. so far i've implemented dsns for mysql, pgsql, sqlite, sqlite2, firebird, oci, mssql, sybase and dblib. but since i only have mysql and sqlite i can only test these two. anybody willing to test the others?

package fixed

Oktay Acikalin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 20:02:59 -0000

it seems like some people have downloaded the broken package which has been uploaded around afternoon. since then some serious bugs have been fixed, the package re-uploaded and the news-entry created. so if you've downloaded 0.9.4 before i did the news entry, please download 0.9.4 again. sorry for the fuzz.

aurora 0.9.4 released

Oktay Acikalin — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 19:39:21 -0000

this release brings us environments, model initialization at command-line-level and an availability switch. url-files are now in yml format and the test-framework has undergone a near complete rewrite. also many bugs have been fixed. see changelog for details.

from now on we use real version numbers and kick off with 0.9.4. i did a little work on the website and would like to give some insight what we do, so take your time looking at the tracker and roadmap. happy sunshine :)

aurora 20080323 bugfix-release

Oktay Acikalin — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 13:14:39 -0000

fixed some notices from being thrown at startup with E_ALL enabled. made the benchmark-line readable in cli-mode and fixed a glitch with etags not being used under certain circumstances.

aurora 20080322 released

Oktay Acikalin — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 20:42:16 -0000

here we introduce signals ( active and passive events ), an integrated test-framework for unit-testing and a much nicer command line interface for ama ( colored output, syntax-highlighting ). we also get two new alternative template syntaxes for commands and translation-vars. ama has been improved and raised to v0.4. along some speedups we also filtered some bugs. please see changelog for all details. i've also uploaded some examples, which you can get at the download page.

aurora 20080316 released

Oktay Acikalin — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:27:36 -0000

this week we fixed many small bugs, cleaned up code in several key-points and changed the template var-replacer not to reduce escape-signs step by step. the url-dispatcher now also supplies get-, post- and url-arrays to entry-points. ama can now create helper files which are not bound to any package. aurora::emsg and aurora::_die throw an usable backtrace unless quiet is enabled. web's error-page works again. tested under php 5.2.5 and dropped support for php < 5.2.3. more in the changelog as usual.