- ok, so it’s a biased opinion… :/

NaturePhp itself is basically a plug-in system for the coolest functionalities around – most of the upcoming functionalities are either gathered from wordpress, joomla!, CodeIgniter and others, as well as a few of our own – *and a few RubyOnRails original ideas implemented in php ;)

The functionalities are organized into classes, and the classes are organized into namespaces, providing a great deal of “space” for future plug-in developments.
It uses __autoload() for all classes, meaning it is just as fast no matter how many plug-ins you have installed.
NaturePhp does not aim being labeled as a framework, but, being a pluggable toolkit itself, it allows future developers to build their own frameworks as plug-ins. – The idea is to provide a stable ground for common development and lot’s of easy to use functionalities for developers – much like Phyton’s libraries.

We are currently using Namespace_Class::method() instead of Namespace::Class::method() and Class::callStatic($func_name, [$arg1, $arg2... $argN]) instead of Class::func_name([$arg1, $arg2... $argN]) to workaround the lack of “Namespaces” and method overloading “__callStatic()” support on PHP 5.2.6, as these two features are required for most of the toolkit functionalities.
It’s ugly, but it keeps the toolkit usable and developed while we wait for PHP 5.3.0.

As soon as PHP 5.3.0 comes out we’ll implement the necessary namespaces and change all the Class::callStatic($func_name, [$arg1, $arg2... $argN]) calls to Class::func_name([$arg1, $arg2... $argN]) – so probably a couple of weeks after PHP 5.3.0′s release we’ll have a NaturePhp 0.1 out ;)

While we wait, we’re also finishing the NaturePhp’s website at http://naturephp.org ;

1. Download the latest stable .zip from php.net at windows binaries –> PHP x.x.x zip package
2. unzip the package to c:\php
3. move the content ( extension dlls ) from c:\php\ext to c:\php
4. create a test file at one of your local websites ( c:\Inetpub\wwwroot\test.php ? ) with “<?php phpinfo();?>”
5. open IIS
6. right-click on your “website” ( where you stored test.php ) and select “Properties”
7. Select the “Home Directory” tab and choose “Configuration”
8. Choose “Add”
9. Add “C:\php\php5isapi.dll” (including quotes) to “Executable” and add .php as extension. Then limit the verbs to GET,HEAD,POST,TRACE and click on OK
10. Now choose the “Documents” tab and select “Add”
11. Enter index.php and click on OK
12. Finally, select Web Service Extensions on the left side and choose “Add a new Web service extension”
13. Select “Add” and enter as path C:\php\php5isapi.dll and click on OK
14. Then enter php5 as extension name and check “Set extension status to Allowed”. Then click on OK to enable this extension
15. Now go to My Computer>Right-Click>Properties
16. Click on “Environment Variables”
17. Scroll to “path” and click “Edit”
18. add “;C:\php\” and click OK
19. Restart IIS
20. Open your  “test.php” in a browser window ( http://localhost/test.php ? )

Should be done.

To add php extensions ( curl, etc ) uncomment the dll call lines on php.ini .

According to InformationWeek, Popular Mechanics “tested two all-in-one desktops and notebooks, one Mac and one PC in each category, using a panel of testers ranging from experts to the I-just-want-it-to-work type of consumer”.
The results were published in in Popular Mechanics‘s May issue.

There is a logic to it:
Apple’s hardware is carefully built to be the most stable and compatible as possible, and the driver’s provided by OS X’s boot camp are perfectly designed for Vista to work perfectly with all the hardware in a Mac.
Apple tries to give such a perfect environment to it’s OS X that Windows Vista becomes actually much better on a Mac than most PC’s.

They also proved false the “a Mac’s way more expensive” PC lovers line. Apparently the only PC’s closely matched to their Mac’s counterparts – Gateway desktop and Asus notebook, priced the same or even higher than the Mac’s.

When they tested OS X Leopard vs Vista the results were more or less expected, Leopard won all the trials, and most of them such as performance, application launch times, features, etc. by a long way.
On the downside they found that most users only love OS X Leopard’s look and feel a little bit more than Vista’s.

Apple won both in laptops and desktops categories – Now there’s no excuse not to buy a mac.

Why?

- Autoload libraries ( Modules – similar to naturePhp’s toolkit system ) is a default system;
- a small core;
- namespaces and modules;
- indentation is used to mark out block structure rather than curly braces – much cleaner code;
- everything is a reference!
- a simple array slicing syntax;
- lambdas and other built-in functional programming constructs;

I always asked myself why Google uses so much python, now i know.

I’ll still be working on naturePhp and with PHP in general, i still think PHP is much more easy to setup and learn, as well as more resourceful, and most of the shared server environments use PHP, so naturePhp toolkit is continuing to be a must have – especially with the oncoming namespaces on PHP 5.2.3 ;)

I mean, i know Retro is fashionable sometimes, but 1990′s style Microsoft’s patented OOXML as an open office standard?? – An absurdly 6.000 pages specification with many known issues.

Such a fundamental evolutionary tech like an Open Office Standard is “given” to Microsoft as sole developer and entitled owner?? – They can sue any other company for using it ffs!
With unspecified fundamental binary code (blob) that nobody can interpret but themselves and making use of deprecated technologies such as VML??
View the details.

WTF?

The voting itself is undoubtfully a staged play, with multiple countries having last-minute vote changes, from disapproval or abstention to approval in the eleventh hour, making the final results look like a “Should US invade the Middle East?” poll – only a few wise countries voted no…
Even Norway changed their minds!!
So much for compliance…

“I am very disappointed in ISO, OSI, and ECMA. I held them with high regard, until they started approving standards and licenses of a company that has been holding back the PC industry all to make a little more money.” – says a commenter at Intellectual Property Watch

I totally agree – shameful indeed.