Archive for January 24th, 2008
PHP Developer - January 24th, 2008
The Developer Tutorials website has started up a blog and has already posted some great content to it including this new post covering five things that every PHP coder should know about development.
There’s always a bridge between textbook knowledge of programming - syntax, procedure etc. - and the real world knowledge that you get from actually developing real applications. Here are five things every PHP developer should be familiar with before they begin developing web applications in PHP
The list is:
- Frameworks
- Templating engines
I’m a particular fan of that last one and regularly hang out in the same ##php channel over on Freenode.
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PHP Developer - January 24th, 2008
As a companion to the podcast version of his review, Matthew Turland has posted his comments in text form over on his blog today.
I received an e-mail recently from a very nice gentleman at Packt Publishing - their representative asked if I would be willing to review one of their books, namely PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects by Shu-Wai Chow. Reviewing books is not something I had done before, so I thought I would give it a good old-fashioned college try.
He mentions the size of the book (and how it’s not an indication of the quality) and the basic structure of the book, including spotlights on some of the specific topics covered.
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PHP Developer - January 24th, 2008
Hasin Hayder has started up a new project that he’s documented in a new blog entry - the creation of a new jobs website in PHP.
I was involved in making a job site few days ago. During the development, I have studied how easily anyone can develop a job site using PHP (language independent in true sense) . So I decide to write a blog post about my experience and here it goes. But note that this article is not about scaling or balancing the load on your site during heavy traffic, heh heh.
He comments on the startup process surrounding this type of site and makes suggestions about something to consider for your careers site - pulling job content from other sites in two ways - screen scraping and using the job search APIs out there.
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PHP Developer - January 24th, 2008
The Zend Developer Zone has posted a new episode of their PHP Abstract podcast series - Matthew Turland with a book review of Packt’s “PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects”.
Today’s special guest is Matthew Turland (Elazar to those of you who hang out on the #phpc channel on irc.freenode.net) Matt has been building PHP applications since 2002. […] Today, Matt is going to review PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects from Packt Publishing.
You know the drill - there’s three ways to grab the PHP goodness: the mp3, the in-page player and, the most convenient, subscribing to their feed and getting the latest episodes hand-delivered.
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PHP Developer - January 24th, 2008
On the PHP Web Services blog today, Sami asks “what’s missing from PHP’s SOAP extension” that needs to be added or corrected.
PHP SOAP extension is good to get started, to play around with. However, it falls much short in meeting the enterprise demands in the SOA era.
He talks about things missing (like binary file features and lots of security features). He also notes something that most PHP developers love about the extension - the WSDL parsing that makes it so easy to simply call a remote service without having to go through the pain of hacking through it yourself.
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