Jump In! Camp

Jump In! Developers’ Camp has started today at a beautiful resort near Zürich, Switzerland. Over the next three days, we’ll have workshops focusing on the topics of cloud computing, the Microsoft Azure platform. There are quite a bunch of fellow Open Source developers here, and it’ll be exciting to sit together and hack away on various features.

For Agavi, this means that work will be done this week on native support for the Azure cloud computing platform, support for IIS7 and the new SQL Server Driver for PHP. I’m also hoping to get some support in for the table and queue stores the Azure platform offers, although that will require a lot work on the new storage subsystem planned for Agavi 1.1 that will be difficult to squeeze into the next three days.

In addition to that, I’ve been working on support for both input types (finally!) and a new security infrastructure that decouples authentication and authorization and will allow you, among other things, to access validated request data, so you can for instance implement an ACL subsystem to perform authorization checks directly on your business objects.

I’ll blog several updates over the next few days, so stay tuned!

– David