There are dozens of PHP frameworks around now, some attracting more attention than others. I am no expert on these frameworks and have not used a single one extensively so I wouldn’t dream of recommending one over the other, nor do I want to enter the debate about what is or is not a framework [...]
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Things I learnt at FOWA (and things I need to need to learn more about)
I was at Future of Web Apps - London 2008 last week, and had a great time, spoke to loads of interesting people and drunk a lot of beer. This is a list of everything I learnt, and everything I foudn out I need to learn:
Polyvore community translation
XMPP
Everyone is hiring.
Everyone is hiring UX/UI people and [...]
I learn something new every day. (PHP Quality Assurance)
I mentioned earlier today that I am at that I am at the PHP London Conference. And I just found out something new about PHP that I wanted to share.
Apparently PHP has quality assurance. That is to say, there are a team of contributers dedicated to QA for PHP. One of the [...]
PHP London 2008
Today I am at the PHP Conference London 2008, with about 300 other developers. We’ve all listened to Ivo Jansch in his “PHP Enterprise” talk, which is a good discussion of software engineering for php developers.
I’m currently listening to Stefan Esser’s”Binary PHP Analysis” talk which is a really useful insight into php security auditing.
PHP Manual Changes (PhD)
Just spotted that the online docs for PHP have changed - and looking at the PHP-DOC mailing list there is an announcement from Hannes Magnusson that the PhD builds are now online.
PhD is the [PH]P based [D]ocBook renderer which the documentation team have been working on for ages, and it sparked my interest after [...]
Zend not able to make thier own website work?
I blogged recently about passing the Zend PHP5 Certification recently. One of the ‘rewards’ offered for passing the test is inclusion into the Yellow Pages for PHP Professionals and there are various functions available for people who have passed the exam to edit their details, post a picture etc. However my profile doesn’t [...]
pow($zend, 3) // or three zend posts in one
Three pieces of zend news today:
Firstly - I passed my Zend PHP5 Certification exam yesterday (\o/). I’ve been thinking of taking the exam for some time, and finally got round to it when my employer offered to pay for the test. It was rather more difficult than I expected - but there were very [...]
Zend Neon Beta (Zend Studio for Eclipse)
Got an email today from Zend about their new Zend Studio beta. I’m interested to see this, because I use Zend Studio at work, and I like it, its just quite expensive. I’ve been trialing different IDEs at home for a while now, but I havent got on very well with either Komodo [...]
Is PHP a solid job prospect?
I have a lot of debates about this with people. One of the most common reasons given for why PHP is so popular is because you can’t swing a cat without hitting a PHP developer. I say thats crap, and that you can swing a whole lot of cats before you hit a [...]
PHP London 2007
The PHP London user group just announced PHP London 2007 conference. Tickets are just £50, and speakers are Rasmus Lerdorf, Cal Evans, the editor of Zend DevZone, Kevlin Henney and Simon Laws, the lead on PHP’s new SCA_SDO extension.
Looks like it should be a good conference and I hope to see you there [...]
