Updated: 2009-09-30 15:11:41
Now that the CodeWorks conference is on some of its final stops, speakers and attendees are posting about their experiences. Here's the list so far:
A running journal from Cal Evans, a speaker on the tour
A series from Ben Ramsey, speaker - days 1&2, days 3&4, days 5&6
Jason Sweat's summary of his time spent on the tour
A summary from a Dallas regional speaker, Vance Lucas
There'll be more to come as the conference finishes out its run so stay tuned here for more from the community as they're posted.
Updated: 2009-09-30 14:32:01
In the second part of his series looking at asynchronous processing in PHP applications, Padraic Brady lays the ground work for the third part and shows how to work with command line Zend Framework applications.
Part 2 is a tangential detour into how to make a Zend Framework based application accessible from the command line before we delve into examples using this in future parts of the series. If you are not a Zend Framework user, I'm sure you can find relevant material online for your own preferred framework though the ZF pieces may still have some usefulness in understanding the approach from an MVC perspective.
In his examples he skips over the basics of using a command line application and jumps right to things like argument handling, creating a custom router and making a custom "calling script" to handle the configuration of the CLI application.
Updated: 2009-09-30 13:58:22
The Zend Developer Zone has posted the latest in their ZendCon Sessions podcast series, recordings from the ZendCon 2008 conference. This episode is Chris Shiflett's presentation on application security - "Security Centered Design".
In this series we will be releasing regular sessions from ZendCon 2008 as we lead up to this year's ZendCon. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA and features Chris Shiflett giving his talk: "Security Centered Design"
The usual ways to get and listen to this latest episode are all there - the in-page player, download the mp3 or you can subscribe to their feed and get the latest delivered right to your doorstep.
Updated: 2009-09-30 13:00:03
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Updated: 2009-09-29 20:58:38
The latest episode of the php|architect podcast has been released - an interview with Andrew Sampson, producer of stephenfy.com, the website of "actor/writer/polymath Stephen Fry".
This week's interview with Andrew Sampson is a perfect example of what we are trying to accomplish. Andrew produces stephenfry.com, actor/writer/polymath Stephen Fry's website. By his own admission (although we suspect he's just being modest), Andrew is not a technical person, but thanks to PHP and WordPress he and a small team run a website that handles tremendous amounts of traffic while working with someone like Stephen Fry, who travels constantly and therefore needs to be able to work in a distributed environment.
You can check out this new episode in one of two ways - either via the in-page player or in a direct download from the php|architect site.
Updated: 2009-09-29 19:30:28
A brand new conference is on the horizon! PHP Benelux, one of the largest PHP user groups, is hosting a conference of their own in Antwerp, Belgium, on Saturday January 30th. They’ve announced their Call for Papers is open until October 31st.
Updated: 2009-09-29 19:09:58
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Updated: 2009-09-29 17:56:38
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Updated: 2009-09-29 17:03:45
ConFoo.ca, the spiritual successor to PHP Quebec, is happening March 10-12, 2010, and has announced their Call for Papers is open until November 13th.
Updated: 2009-09-29 16:20:26
On The Bakery today there's a new post with a few things to watch out for when you're just getting started with the CakePHP framework.
Starting from scratch in cakephp is not always easy, especially when you are not used to MVC frameworks. I hope this will help other beginners to make their life easier.
Pitfalls listed include:
Incorrect filenames
Remember to use "echo" in views
Unexpected results in ajax calls
Put the query where it belongs
Check out the rest of the post for more handy tips.
Updated: 2009-09-29 16:17:53
Presenting the latest edition of The ZendCon Sessions. The podcast that rebroadcasts sessions/talks from the last ZendCon PHP Conference. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA and features Chris Shiflett giving his talk: “Security Centered Design”
Updated: 2009-09-29 15:57:08
On the SitePoint PHP blog today there's a new tutorial showing how to use the SimplePie aggregation library to create a "lifestream" website of all of your accounts across the web.
In this tutorial we'll build a page that gathers up the RSS feeds of all those little bits of your life and presents them all together in one spot. To do that, we'll use SimplePie, a feed parsing class written in PHP. It's powerful, it's open source, and it's easy to use. We'll then hack on the output a little, and make it all look gorgeous with HTML and CSS. The techniques we'll cover are also useful if you find that you need to aggregate RSS from many sources, like a news page.
In their example they pull together accounts from Twitter, Flickr and Last.fm. You can check out the code for their example script here.
Updated: 2009-09-29 06:30:47
The IBuildings techPortal has posted the latest episode in its podcast series of presentations from this year's Dutch PHP Conference. This time it's a talk from Matthew Weier O'Phinney on contributing to open source projects.
Working in isolation is easy. Most developers have long lists of tasks that never get shorter, and it's trivially easy to put on blinders as you slog through the list. Good developers realize that the only way to get through the list is to start using the work of others [...] In this session, we'll look at the various ways you can contribute to open source projects, and some common tools you can use to do so.
You can either listen via the in-page player or you can download the mp3 directly and check out this great session.
Updated: 2009-09-28 06:24:14
Stefan Koopmanschap has let us know that the first phpBenelux conference (happening in 2010) has been announced !
Updated: 2009-09-25 18:24:50
According to the latest post on his blog Brandon Savage thinks interfaces rock . He includes an example or two of how type hinting can help you enforce and predict what sort of methods are defined in other classes.
Updated: 2009-09-23 21:20:20
A number of industry leaders have comes together and made an announcement. A new Simple Cloud API is being developed for PHP, that will create an easy way to interface with any number of cloud services. The current contributors to this project include Zend, Microsoft, IBM, Rackspace, Nirvanix, and GoGrid.
Updated: 2009-09-23 14:30:19
I’ve created a simple application as an example for beginners starting with zend framework 1.9. I used the zf command to create the project, so it is somewhat similar to the quickstart directory structure. Many current examples are following the old directory structure which will confuse a newbie. This is just a simple blog application, missing most of the features of a full blog system such as Wordpress. It’s just designed to show how the Zend_ACL, Zend_Auth, and Zend_Form components of Zend Framework are used.
Updated: 2009-09-23 08:07:14
You've successfully installed the Zend Core for i5 on your System i. Now what? This tutorial helps you write your first PHP scripts on the System i. You will learn where Zend Core is located on the System i, how to make sure Zend Core is running, how to set up Zend Studio, how to write a simple 'hello world' script, and how to access a DB2 file on the System i.
Updated: 2009-09-23 01:05:43
The Zend Framework team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
the 1.9.3PL1 release. This release corrects a BC break found in the 1.9.3
release, and should be used in its place.
You may download it from the Zend Framework site .
Updated: 2009-09-22 19:15:39
Zend Developer Zone Advancing the art of PHP Login Register Contribute Username : Password : Processing login . Please wait . Home Articles Tutorials Podcasts News Events Forums PHP Manual Quick Links Get PHP Zend Home Page Zend Framework Zend Server CE Zend Server Zend Studio Zend Guard php|architect PHP Podcasts Loading feed Loading feed Loading feed News Zend Framework Announcing Zend Framework's Monthly Bug Hunt Days weierophinney 1 comment Tuesday , September 22, 2009 Last Thursday and Friday , the 17th and 18th of September , Zend Framework launched its first monthly bug hunt days . The bug hunt is actually more of a bug killing or bug squashing event the intent is to reduce the number of reported issues in the tracker by either fixing them , marking them as duplicates , or invalidating them many issues may stem from lack of understanding of the component , invalid reproduce cases , and more To sweeten the deal , we have also made a small contest out of it : the contributor who resolves or assists in resolving the most issues during each month's event receives a Zend Framework t-shirt . Before I launch into the numbers , I'd like to thank and congratulate everyone who
Updated: 2009-09-22 15:46:13
The Zend Framework team is pleased to announce the immediate availability of
the 1.9.3 release. This release is the third maintenance release in the 1.9
series. Almost 100 (!) issues have been resolved for this
release, covering more than 40(!) different components.
You may download it from the Zend Framework site .
Updated: 2009-09-18 08:48:29
Presenting the latest edition of The ZendCon Sessions. The podcast that rebroadcasts sessions/talks from the last ZendCon PHP Conference. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2008 in Santa Clara, CA and features Mike Naberezny & Matthew Weier O’Phinney giving their tutorial: “Best Practices of PHP Development”
Updated: 2009-09-17 19:11:02
Cahaya CMS is a new content management system build on Zend framework. It is released under GPLv3 license. It offers many useful features if you are just an user, a designer or a developer. For more details, downloads and demo please visit www.cahaya-project.org
Updated: 2009-09-17 08:46:47
A review of the book Mastering phpMyAdmin 3.1 for Effective MySQL Management by Marc Delisle.
Updated: 2009-09-16 17:31:43
PHP Abstract has a new episode! This time I’m talking with Paul Tomlinson about Torpor , a new ORM persistence abstraction layer for PHP . He talks about the reasons behind making this new layer, and how it’s features compare to other similar solutions.
Updated: 2009-09-16 16:01:58
New from NETTUTS.com today there's an article that both reminds PHP developers of the importance of filtering data and gives them a long list of the filters that PHP has to make it easy.
Updated: 2009-09-14 08:40:24
In this latest post to his blog Jani Hartikainen looks at creating "null objects" for your applications - a simple tool that lets you replace multiple evaluation checks with a simple object.
Updated: 2009-09-11 02:40:49
As the GUI of Zend Server is based on the open-source Zend Framework, you can easily extend it. This article demonstrates how to integrate new functionality to Zend Server which makes it possible see the content and some meta information of cached items.
For this example I use the Data Cache API from Zend Server, but in combination with the Zend Framework component Zend_Cache and its Zend_Cache_Backend_ZendServer_Disk backend adapter.
Updated: 2009-09-10 08:08:25
Jeff Ello wrote in Computer World a few days ago, a story about managing geeks. Specifically about IT departments (though the facts ring true for development teams just as much). He blasts through the stereotypes, and gets to the core truths, showing everything not only what intricacies truly exist. But also, that he himself, is a geek.
