PHP Developer - July 24th, 2006
Through the Carson Workshops group, there’s a new two day event covering “Professional PHP Programming” happening at The Energy Clinic in London.
This practical, hands-on workshop is aimed at helping PHP and other language developers create fully-fledged, enterprise-level PHP applications that are smart, sophisticated, fast, secure and maintainable.
Combining traditional techniques and future technologies, Nick (Nettleton) will take you through the whole process of creating a full-scale enterprise publishing application, from planning and prototypes through coding, and on to debugging and deployment - all using live, hands-on examples.
The workshop is August 24th and 25th and lasts from 9am to 5:30pm each day. Day one will focus on application development and get attendees started on their own development and will include talk of MVC-style architecture, Web 2.0, and web services.
Day two will get more advanced, covering security issues, interactivity in applications, and building charts/reporting metrics. Performance and scalability will also be covered.
For compelte information on the conference - the whats, whys, whos, and wheres - check out this site and register today to reserve your spot.
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PHP Developer - July 24th, 2006
Ilia Alshanetsky notes in this new post on his blog today that the latest release candidate of the PHP 5.x series has been released - PHP 5.2.0 RC1.
Given that it took a few months to reach this point and addition of new features was allowed the changelog already looks extremely impressive.
Some of the key changes include things like 3 new extensions (filter, json and zip), the date extension had the rest of its functionality enabled, much work was done in terms of getting PHP 5.2 to run faster and more efficiently (in terms on memory usage). There have also been nearly 80 bug fixes made to existing functionality, which hopefully translates to a more stable release.
This latest edition can be downloaded from:
And, as ususal, testing and feedback is definitely requested to help work out as many kinks as possible.
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PHP Developer - July 24th, 2006
Keeping track of people’s faces at conferences can be a daunting task, but on PHP developer has his own method. Cal Evans (of the Zend Developer Zone) has created his own Flash cards of the “who’s who” in the PHP community. Wez Furlong has this post documenting the fact.
Cal Evans of Zend’s DevZone accidentally revealed his php community who’s who flash cards (so that he can put faces to names at the conference)–and it looks just like a trading card game.
Luckily for you, Terry Chay was on hand to document them. You can see more of these on Terry’s flickr stream.
Wez comments that there also seemed to be problem with the run (more than one Zak?).
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PHP Developer - July 24th, 2006
Developer.com is continuing their series (on the Google Maps API, see here for a previous article) today with this new tutorial, a look at using the geocaching functionality the Google Maps API offers over a HTTP connection.
In this tutorial I showed you how to submit geocoding requests via JavaScript, which is convenient because it’s easy to subsequently build a map using the retrieved coordinates. However, if you’re interested in performing bulk geocoding for reason of storing a series of coordinates in a database, you might be interested in taking advantage of a second means for geocoding, accomplished by way of HTTP request.
Storing the coordinates locally will not only decrease the number of required daily geocoding requests (limited to 50,000 daily), but it will speed your application by cutting down on the total requests required to ultimately build a map.
They start off with a simple example, showing how to sed the request out to Google as well as the output. They show how to get the information you need out of the return XML. This basic example leads to something more complex - the server-side caching of the geocode results in a MySQL database.
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PHP Developer - July 24th, 2006
Laura Thomson is reporting back over on her blog with the latest from her experiences at this year’s OSCON, mentioning today the “Lightening Talks” that she and George Schlossnagle are doing on Wednesday.
On Wednesday George and I are moderating the PHP Lightning talks at OSCON. The Perl ones have been running for years and are a lot of fun.
If you have something PHP related to talk about, please come and talk to us about it. The talks are really short (5 minutes) and minimal preparation is required. If you have never given a conference talk before, this is a great way to start. Or, if you’ve given lots of talks but really need to rant about something, this is your opportunity.
If you’re there and have a topic you’d like to hear about during the talks, drop them a line at lightningtalks-oscon2006@omniti.com with the topic and a short summary.
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