The Fruity Taste of PEAR
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You cannot help but like someone like Greg who is honest and humble:  "I am one of the core developers of the PEAR package who has joined the game relatively late... The base PEAR class is one monstrous mistake, and PEAR_Error is pretty close. Everyone knows this. I designed an error class that is much, much more flexible and it is part of PEAR 1.3.1 (PEAR_ErrorStack) - check it out. "  Sadly it's just not true that everyone knows that PEAR class is big mistake (Jeff Moore has more on why PEAR.php is awful).  Given that PEAR is both an important framework and a worthless class, the confusion in names will  definitely  cause the value of the PEAR class to be overestimated. Just read any article on PEAR and you can see what nice words they have to say about the base classes :-(     I once said once that too many PEAR developers were journeymen. This might have offended  some people, but I was trying hard to be diplomatic. I must say that today the PEAR group is definitely more mature, and they have learnt a lot about library design. What would really make my eyes light up  would be an PEAR2 initiative that kept the existing classes, but dropped the bad seeds such as PEAR.php (e.g. the PEAR and PEAR_Error classes).   And in case you were wondering, I do think there's great value in the PEAR DB API. API's are important for interoperatability. For example, ADOdb has a PEAR DB compatibility mode. I would certainly be flattered if PEAR DB had an ADOdb compat mode too :-)
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I always eat these rich, savoury fritters when I visit the Half Moon resort in Montego Bay in Jamaica. Jamaica is my musical Mecca where I can feel inspired by the likes of Bob Marley, Toots Hibbert and Jimmy Cliff.
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In a new post Richard Heyes links to a replacement for the popular PEAR::DB package:   PEAR::DB is all well and good if you want to connect to multiple databases (I assume, I've never actually used it with anything other than mysql) but it is somewhat hefty on the bad side of 60k. Not a good thing if you're not using some sort of accelerator and have a high traffic site. Here's a class which replicates the PEAR::DB API (the bits that I use anyhoo) and weighs in at a much nicer ~11k. Sweet.   The class is posted for download here as a simple PHP source file with functions and values named similar to those in the PEAR::DB package.
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Latest PEAR Releases:PEAR 1.5.1PHP_ParserGenerator 0.1.5pearweb_phars 1.2.0pearweb 1.9.2pearweb 1.9.1PHP_Parser 0.2.0PHP_Parser_DocblockParser 0.1.0pearweb 1.9.3pearweb 1.9.4pearweb 1.9.5Validate_LV 1.0.0RC1pearweb 1.9.6pearweb 1.10.0Mail_Mime 1.4.0a1Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_MDB2 0.1.8Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_DBQuery 0.1.8Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_XLS 0.1.2Structures_DataGrid 0.8.2Text_Wiki 1.2.0RC2
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Latest PEAR Releases:pearweb_index 1.16.3HTML_QuickForm 3.2.9PEAR_PackageFileManager_Cli 0.1.0HTML_BBCodeParser 1.2.1HTML_BBCodeParser 1.2.0Text_Highlighter 0.7.0PEAR 1.6.0Services_Digg 0.1.1PEAR_PackageFileManager_Cli 0.2.0Validate_IE 0.2.0HTML_QuickForm_advmultiselect 1.4.0pearweb_index 1.16.4Text_Wiki 1.2.0Mail_mimeDecode 1.0.0RC1Mail_Mime 1.5.0RC1Mail_mimeDecode 0.1.0Mail_Mime 1.5.0a1Mail_Mime 1.5.0RC2Date_Holidays 0.17.1
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Put your shirt back on. I'm talking about Pepsi's Naked juices and smoothies.
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In an effort to revive flattening sales and attract new drinkers, Anheuser-Busch is unveiling a new concoction -- a fruity-smelling beer, spiked with caffeine, guaran, and ginseng.
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By Rick Barrett, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel  Jun. 22--A simple sugar found in fruit and a variety of other sources could be converted to fuel for cars and trucks.
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Latest PEAR Releases:PHP_CodeSniffer 0.1.1Net_UserAgent_Mobile 0.28.0Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_HTMLTable 0.1.1Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_XML 0.1.1Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_XML 0.1.1HTML_Table 1.7.3Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer 0.9.1PHP_CompatInfo 1.4.0XML_Query2XML 0.6.1Console_Color 0.0.4PEAR 1.5.0a1Crypt_XXTEA 0.8.0
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used to find food and mates. It&#39;s the stuff of literature; the scent of a scallop-shelled pastry dipped in lime-flower tea stirred the memories on which Marcel
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Latest PEAR Releases:Services_Technorati 0.7.0alphaImage_Barcode 1.1.0Text_Wiki_Creole 0.5.0XML_RPC2 1.0.1pearweb 1.9.0
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Latest PEAR Releases:LiveUser 0.16.13pearweb_gopear 1.1.0pearweb_phars 1.4.0RC1Services_Digg 0.4.2DB_DataObject 1.8.8HTML_Template_Flexy 1.3.0HTML_Template_Flexy 1.3.1File_Ogg 0.3.0HTML_Template_Flexy 1.3.2Text_Diff 1.0.0pearweb_phars 1.4.0PEAR 1.7.0pearweb_gopear 1.1.1Net_CheckIP2 1.0.0RC2PEAR 1.7.1PHP_CodeSniffer 1.0.1
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The key could be chemicals in the fruit called procyanidins, a team from the French National Institute for Health and Medical Research believe.
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Gregorio Evardome knows exactly what he wants for Christmas dessert: a Philippine favorite of young coconut brimming with fruit cocktail, jelly and cream.
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An international team of scientists have found evidence that suggests that Homo sapiens developed a taste for shellfish much earlier than previously thought.
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A COCKTAIL of chemicals, some at levels above legal limits, has been found in samples of fresh fruit and other foods.   Some apples, grapes, aubergines and yams carried pesticide traces above the legal threshold, according to the official Pesticides Residues Directorate.
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Latest PEAR Releases:Auth 1.5.3Auth 1.5.4HTML_BBCodeParser 1.2.2PEAR_Info 1.7.0RC2Validate_FI 0.4.0File_Fortune 0.9.2File_Fortune 0.9.1PHP_DocBlockGenerator 1.0.0I18N_UnicodeNormalizer 1.0.0RC1I18N_UnicodeNormalizer 1.0.0RC2PHP_DocBlockGenerator 1.0.1MP3_IDv2 0.1.2Testing_Selenium 0.3.2OpenDocument 0.1.1HTML_Template_PHPLIB 1.3.3File_Fortune 1.0.0RC1