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PHPClasses.org: Podcast Lately in PHP - Episode 1 - PHP Classes blogThu, 13 May 2010 20:27:07 -0500
Looks like PHPClasses.org is getting into the podcast arena with their own contribution - Lately in PHP. This is the inaugural episode of the Lately in PHP podcast hosted by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert. It covers some of the latest latest happenings in the PHP world. This episode covers the top active PHP user groups, interview with Guilherme Blanco of the Doctrine project, finding and posting great PHP jobs, Yahoo Hack Day event, the Yahoo Query Language, Google Developer Day event, the winners of the PHP Programming Innovation Award edition of March 2010, the article about PHP developers switching from Internet Explorer and Firefox to Google Chrome, and the plans for Firefox 4. If you'd like to listen, you can either use the in-page player or you can download the mp3 directly and listen at your leisure.
Elizabeth Naramore's Blog: Why People Don't Contribute to OS Projects, and What We Can Do About It
Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:41:11 -0500
Elizabeth Naramore (co-founder of the PHPWomen group) has written up an excellent post sharing some research she did on why people don't contribute to Open Source projects (and what can be done to fix the situation). As those in the open source community who either contribute to, use, or advocate open source projects, we understand the importance of keeping them vibrant and active. We understand how great it is to be a part of a growing project we believe in. We understand the benefits of being an active community member. We understand that it not only helps the good of those around us, but it helps us hone our own skills. So what can we all do to get more people to contribute? The results from her completely non-scientific poll showed that the three largest factors people don't get involved were time commitments, unsure about where help is needed and a lack of confidence in their own skills. She offers some suggestions about what project leads and other developers can do to help bring more people in like: Break up big jobs into little jobs keep commitments minimal Define exactly what's needed Save the low-hanging fruit for those just coming in Appoint an ambassador (especially useful on larger projects)
NetworkWorld.com: 10 best IT jobs right now
Thu, 04 Feb 2010 08:02:10 -0600
As most people involved in the IT sector know, demand is growing all the time for qualified people to fill the spots companies really need. In a new article from NetworkWorld.com they talk about some of the current trends as to what skills companies are really looking for right now including people with solid experience with Open Source development and tools. Industry watchers report that while an economic recovery won't guarantee that IT jobs return to pre-recession levels, increased interest in emerging and existing technologies will drive internal training and external hiring decisions. [...] Here we examine 10 IT job titles that could gain traction in 2010 as new technology demands require evolving IT skills. The list includes specializations like security specialists, capacity planning, network engineers, business process engineers and Open Source specialists that have the knowledge and the skills to either create or bring in the Open Source tools that would fit the need the best. They even quote Dice.com about the increase in popularity those sorts of postings/searches have been getting lately.
Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 01.01.2010
Fri, 01 Jan 2010 07:02:19 -0600
Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:Community News: PHP Advent 2009 Wraps Up Abhinav Singh's Blog: How to use locks in PHP cron jobs to avoid cron overlaps Developr.com: Do Frameworks Fail? When? Web Development Blog: Ajax requests using jQuery and PHP Symfony Blog: Windows and symfony ZendCasts.com: Doctrine Relations and Zend MVC Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 12.25.2009 Sebastian Bergmann's Blog: PHPUnit Development Moved to GitHub Kae Verens' Blog: multiple file uploads using HTML5 Community News: php-mode (PHP documentation integration for Emacs)
Abhinav Singh's Blog: How to use locks in PHP cron jobs to avoid cron overlaps
Tue, 29 Dec 2009 12:45:31 -0600
In this new post from Abhinav Singh on how to use file locking to keep your cron jobs from trying to use the same resources. Cron jobs are hidden building blocks for most of the websites. They are generally used to process/aggregate data in the background. However as a website starts to grow and there is gigabytes of data to be processed by every cron job, chances are that our cron jobs might overlap and possibly corrupt our data. In this blog post, I will demonstrate how can we avoid such overlaps by using simple locking techniques. I will also discuss a few edge cases we need to consider while using locks to avoid overlap. He includes some sample code - both the class to create the functionality and a script showing how to make use of it (and, of course, an example of it in use).
Content with Style Blog: Quick helper script for ZF view translations
Thu, 29 Oct 2009 07:54:01 -0500
On the Content with Style blog today Pascal Opitz has posted a helper script for Zend Framework applications to make internationalization of your templates simpler. Manual copy and paste jobs are a pain. Faced with the prospect of internationalizing 30+ big view files, I thought there had to be a better way. When I started to use the reg exp search facility in Textmate, the penny dropped. A helper script is what was needed. The CLI script he's created goes through a file, in this case a view file (phtml) and does a replace on the values defined in an ini file. It's a simple one-to-one, exact match relationship but it can make it much easier to do simple translations on a large number of pages.
Cody Taylor's Blog: Checking Bits With PHP
Thu, 18 Jun 2009 11:12:43 -0500
Cody Taylor has a quick post to his blog about bit checking in PHP: PHP makes life a lot easier for quick or dirty maintenance scripts, cron jobs or web applications but how does it do for older, not so straight forward problems dealing with bits and bytes? I was surprised how easy it was to manipulate bits in a byte with php. Here is an function that made my life a fair amount easier when having to check for a specific bit in a byte. The function takes in the value and, after casting it to an int, checks to see how it compares to eight and returns it. This result can be passed through decbin function for output. A handy table of the bitwise operator definitions is also included.
Paul Gregg's Blog: PHP on LinkedIn.com
Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:56:28 -0600
Paul Gregg has a quick post informing PHPers that use of some of the resources and groups the LinkedIn service has to offer. Since LinkedIn opened up its Groups system, there has been a huge growth in the number of groups related to PHP. Some with charters, some without; some with a specific community background and others with a specific regional focus. I am posting this to bring attention to some of them. Among the groups on his list are ones like LinkedPHPers, PHP Technology Specialists and a PEAR group. There's a lot of recruiters that come through trolling for jobs on some while others ban those posts all together - it just depends on the group.
Job boards for PHP developers - craigslist.org
2008-06-19 18:26:59
Craigslist isn’t just one site, or it is, depending on how you look at it. Craigslist offers (usually) free classified listings, and has geographically targetted sites aimed at most major metro areas in the US and around the world. Most city sites have 3 categories where PHP jobs would be listed “Software/QA/DBA/etc”, “Web/HTML/Info design and [...]