Christopher Jones

You can now use Oracle's free or paid Linux package channels to install Zend Server. In three links: The technical details Wim Coekaerts's blog gives the background The press release... christopher.jones

Phew! The Oracle OpenWorld conference is: wrapped up. Check me out on video. Now onto ZendCon down at the other end of Silicon Valley. My ZendCon talk is on Tuesday afternoon. In what seems just the last few weeks a... christopher.jones

Check out the Oracle Magazine Editors' Choice Awards 2009. Raimonds was at the Oracle OpenWorld Conference last week. He seemed to be everywhere: I bumped into him numerous times and got to see one of his talks. He was... christopher.jones

If you have an interest in dynamic language programming here are the Oracle sessions to attend. There are also unconference sessions happening - check out the OTN area for details on each day. Conference Sessions S311373 Agile Web Development: Ruby/Rails... christopher.jones

I just released an Alpha version of PECL OCI8 1.4 on http://pecl.php.net/package/oci8 The code is also merged to what will eventually be the PHP 5.3.2 and PHP 6.0 releases. Documentation will appear on http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.oci8.php in the next few days, if... christopher.jones

Our Application Server team have put together a new article on installing PHP to use with the latest version of "Oracle HTTP Server" from our Fusion Middleware suite. The article is at: http://www.oracle.com/technology/products/ias/ohs/htdocs/php_ohs.htm.... christopher.jones

Hey there! Kuassi Mensah and I will be presenting at the upcoming PHP Code|Works conference tour, which kicks off later this month. Code|Works is the latest generation of conference from the folk who, amongst other things, present the excellent PHP|Tek... christopher.jones

Introduction The Edition-Based Redefinition (EBR) feature of Oracle Database 11gR2 is ideal for web sites that aim for no downtime when releasing application enhancements. Editioning allows certain database objects to have multiple versions all available at the same time.... christopher.jones

Oracle Database 11g Release 2 is now available for download. It's a great feeling to see this major release available to customers. Lots of hard work has gone into it and my thanks go to all those folk at Oracle... christopher.jones