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Is Cloud the Right Solution to Host PHP Sites? - Lately in PHP podcast episode 11
By Manuel Lemos
Given the latest problems that occurred in sites that are based on cloud hosting services, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert discuss if the current breed of cloud services are the right solution to host PHP sites.
They also comment on the JavaScript Professionals Directory and the JavaScript jobs board which were recently launched to address the increasing demand of developers from companies that have...
Job postings for the past week:Job Posting: Perforce Software Seeks Web Application Developer (Victoria, BC Canada)
Job Posting: Options Consulting Solutions Seeks PHP Developer Team Lead (Toronto, Canada)
Job Posting: FireScope Seeks Experienced Web Application Developer/Manager (Dallas, TX)
On PHPRiot.com there's a new tutorial showing you how to use the Douglas-Peucker algorithm to make the pathing on your map the simplest possible (the fewer points the better) having serious benefits a wide range of users, most notably those on mobile devices.When drawing a path on a map (for instance, the directions from point A to point B) it is important to consider the limitations of the device you're drawing the path on. In this article, I will show you how to reduce the number of points in a path so...
The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted their latest episode - an interview with Beth Tucker Long, Editor-In-Chief of php|architect.Cal's "three questions" this time are related to her experience coming in to PHP and her thoughts on the community:
How did you get started in PHP?
What do you look for in authors for [php|architect]?
What new technology do you think will have the biggest impact on PHP developers in the coming year?
You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page player...
On the Symfony blog there's a new post about how Symfony2 is "getting easier" thanks to some recent changes with improved error handling and simpler configuration options.With the release of the first beta approaching fast, our main focus has switched from adding new features to polishing existing ones. [...] Recently, Ryan and I have spent our time tweaking error messages, simplifying the code and the configuration, adding more documentation, and making things more consistent throughout the framework....
Hannes Magnusson, in an effort to make it easier for developers to play with the latest shiny features of the current PHP development, has created a PPA for the latest daily status of the PHP project's trunk line of code.There is still no public "development preview" or alpha release, but that doesn't mean we can't play around with it, report bugs, ensuring our apps still properly work with it etc etc etc. It is however a bit annoying needing to "go old-school" and fetch a snapshot and build it yourself...
LESS, a project I'm currently hacking
on @work, has has a unit test suite that was a pain to use because
the ~80 tests took 45 seconds to run.
The problem with that test suite is that you just don't run it often
enought during development because it's just too long.
Running the specific test cases for the part of the application
you're working on is easy and fast, but that does not tell you when
changes in part A of the app break part B - which happened several times,
and all just because...
On the Ibuildings techPortal they've posted a new episode of their recordings from the Dutch PHP Conference 2010, DPCRadio - a recording of Elizabeth Naramore's session Technical Writing.If you've had an idea for writing a blog post or article, but you're not sure where to start, this talk is for you! Maybe you've had difficulty effectively documenting your code, or communicating your ideas to non-techies. This talk will help you, too! In this fun and informative session, we'll discuss the basics of...
People using PHP that want API documentation usually automatically think of phpDocumentor, which used to be the de facto standard for generating API documentation from your PHP projects. However, the project has been dormant for a long time now and definitely does not support new PHP features such as namespaces, so it was really time to look for an alternative. In this blogpost, I'll show you how I set up my Jenkins CI to use DocBlox, one of the new API documentation generators currently available.
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Brian Moon's Blog: PHP Frameworks
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Zend Developer Zone: My Favorite...
The upcoming month is a crazy month in terms of PHP conferences. There is a lot of very good conferences going on, and I'm very happy to be attending three of them! I will either be speaking or hosting an uncon. It is a busy month and I'm looking forward to it, and I hope to see you at one of these!
As was mentioned by Kevin Schroeder, the Call for Papers for this year's Zend/PHP Conference has officially been announced!We are happy to announce that planning is underway for the 2011 Zend/PHP Conference which will be held in Santa Clara, October 17-20. ZendCon 2011 will be the best conference yet and we would like to invite you to be a part of it! A conference is only as good as its speakers and we are looking for the best speakers to share their knowledge and expertise with the PHP community....
TheA April 2011 issue ofA php|architect Magazine was published today and includes an article by me entitled a€oKeeping Code Smelling Pretty With PHP_CodeSniffer.a€ť Feel free to leave a comment on this blog post if you read it and enjoy it or have a suggestion on how to improve my presentation of the material. Thanks in advance!
On the SitePoint PHP blog today there's a new post from Craig Buckler looking (quickly) at a handy feature of the Standard PHP Library (SPL) that can help make working with objects and arrays simpler - object iterators.If you've been coding in PHP for a while, you may be familiar with the foreach loop. It provides an easy way to analyze every item in an array. As well as arrays, it's also possible loop through an object. If your object contains a collection of items, you can use a foreach loop to iterate...
Chris Jones has a new post to his OTN blog today pointing to two new articles by Eli White about managing malicious website use:The techniques Eli covers will always be applicable in one form or another. They should be a fundamental part of any website architect's bag of tricks.The first article focuses more on methods for preventing and dealing with the inevitable spamming that comes with running a larger site. Eli's experience at Digg has provided him with recommendations like creating hurdles for...
On DZone.com today there's a new post from Gonzalo Ayuso about using a stream wrapper to access CouchDb database directly from PHP (via a call to its local file).Thanks to a comment in my last post (many thanks Benjamin) I've discovered that it's possible to create a stream wrapper in PHP (I thought it was only available with a C extension). It's pretty straightforward to create the wrapper. Of course it's only an approach. We can create more functionality to our stram wrapper but at least this example...
Shay Ben Moshe has put together a quick post today where he benchmarks array handling performance differences between PHP's native array and the newer SplFixedArray data structure that's a part of the Standard PHP Library that comes with any recent version of the language.
In PHP, arrays are one of the most fundamental data structures.
We use them everywhere.
They are very flexible, because they are implemented as associative arrays, and therefore let us use both string and integer keys. They are also...
As mentioned in this new post to his blog Jeremy Brown has put together a presentation he calls "A Conversation about REST", a discussion that centers less around the implementation of REST and more about the concepts needed to fully understand it.REST is a set of principles and not a specification, so as such you have freedom in how to develop your API. This freedom can lead to confusion though, as it's hard to find concrete examples of its implementation. This presentation explained what REST is and...
On the Zend Developer Zone there's a new post from Ralph Schindler announcing this month's bug hunt days for the Zend Framework project - April 28th (today!), 29th and 30th.Now that you're done paying the Tax Man (for the North Americans reading this blog post), it's time to pay it forward by helping an open source project close some issues! For those who haven't put the reoccurring event in their calendar, this announcement is for you. [...] For those of you unfamiliar with the event, each month, we...
Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:ServerGrove.com: MongoDB with PHP and symfony
WebDev Radio: Episode 76: Lithium Framework for PHP
CMSReport.com: Expert PHP 5 Tools book
NETTUTS.com: Quick Tip: Loop Through Folders with PHP's Glob()
Vance Lucas' Blog: NoSQL First Impressions: Object Databases Missed the Boat
Paul Reinheimer's Blog: A GUI for XHProf
php|architect: OddWeek #7: Talking with a recruiter
Abhinav Singh's Blog: Setting Nginx, PHP Fastcgi and XCache on a new...
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