Today I have released version 0.2.0 of the PHP Mess Detector or short PHPMD PHPMD is a simple customizable and user friendly frontend application for PHP_Depend It takes the raw metrics measured by PHP_Depend compares them with appropriate thresholds and generates a report that lists those software artifacts with potential problems…

I have just released the bug fix version 0.9.9 of PHP_Depend.

Today I released PHP_Depend 0.9.8 which contains many bug fixes and improvements This release will be the base version for a new tool called PHPMD. PHPMD is a frontend that reports critical and suspect software artifacts in a project based on the metrics measured with PHP_Depend…

After quite some time of silence around phpUnderControl I have bundled the 0.5.0 release today. Beside minor changes, bugfixes and enhancements this release contains one new major feature, the PHP_CodeBrowser.

Today I have released the first version of the staticReflection component This component parses the source files of a project to provide reflection information identical to that provided by PHP's build in API without loading the class declaration into the PHP runtime context…

Today [abien Potencier announced the first relase of the PEAR Channel server Pirum. The great benefit of this Channel server is that it provides a simple shell script to publish new PEAR package releases…

Today I had the chance to visit Derick's IPC talk PHP on the D-BUS Beside the fact that it was an exciting talk it inspired me to implement a small…

Today Kore and I gave a talk on software metrics at the International PHP Conference 2009 in Karlsruhe. You can download our german slides here.

Ok, it's day three after the famous PHP-Unconference-Hamburg and I still haven't found the time to write a review So lets start with a big thank you to all the organizers of this great event.