I'm in the middle of upgrading my VPS server from PHP 5.1.6 to PHP 5.2.1.  So if you don't hear from me anytime soon...you now have an explanation.

Actually, I'm not too worried about breaking the server.  I am however worried about breaking a few of the applications that may not be compatible with PHP 5.2.  Also, about half the time I recompile Apache through Cpanel on the server I find I also need to spend some time  also restoring eAccelerator.  The worry has nothing to do with whether I'm up to the challenge but more of a time issue.  I don't know what it is, but everything in my IT world seems to be hitting at once.   Anyway, here goes...

Updated: 1:35 PM CDT:  So far I haven't seen any conflicts between PHP 5.2.1 and the applications I'm running on the server.  I did have to raise the memory_limit in my php.ini and  make a new install of eAccelerator.  It cost me a little bit of lunch time, but that is about it.

Updated: 316 PM CDT:  Wow, all my sites on this server seem to be zipping along.  Perhaps the observed performance boost is due only to a reboot of the server, but I'd like to think that it has something to do performance improvements in PHP 5.2.1.  One additional change I also did was remove the Microsoft Frontpage Server extensions.  I haven't used Frontpage in years.

I have been sitting on this story for some time. Daniel Glazman has been writing a number of posts recently on a brand new project he's just starting. Daniel Glazman was involved in the development of the Netscape and Mozilla Composer (now called SeaMonkey) as well as the author of the Nvu Web authoring system. All these composers contain a WYSIWYG HTML editor and in many ways can be the considered the open source versions of Microsoft's Frontpage and Adobe's Dreamweaver.

I personally like to use Nvu now and then. I often recommend Nvu to those that need an easy way to compose Web pages and wish to avoid "writing in code" as much as possible. I don't use Nvu or any WYSISYG editor too much these days because I have found that about everything I need to produce online content is self contained with today's content management systems. However, there are times when you don't want to do your work online, making the HTML editors a valuable tool when you need them.

Getting back to the point of this post, Daniel Glazeman has made several posts on his blog letting readers know that he is no longer working with either Nvu or the SeaMonkey projects. Instead, he wishes to work on a brand new composer. In a post he writes: