by Lorna Mitchell |
| June 22, 2009
Earlier in the year, a new memcache extension was released for PHP by Andrei Zmievski, Core PHP Developer and Open Source Fellow at Digg.com. The extension is for dealing with memcache from PHP, and is called memcached (not to be confused with the existing extension, “memcache”). The idea behind the new extension is to leverage the functionality contained libmemcached – a solution which has been widely adopted across many scripting communities and beyond. The extension is available in PECL and has lots of shiny new functionality. This article looks at how to obtain and work with the new extension, and also shows off a couple of the new features it includes.
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by Cal Evans |
| June 16, 2009
It is one of the perks of my job that I get to attend several PHP conferences every year. None of them are more fun – and exhausting – for me than the Dutch PHP Conference. This year’s DPC can be summed up in the most used word in the twitter feed last week, “awesome”. From the beginning of the tutorials on Thursday to the final good byes on Saturday, you could feel the excitement in the air as developers from across Europe and around the world gathered to share ideas at the fastest growing PHP conference in the world.
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by Cal Evans |
| June 15, 2009
The Dutch PHP Conference 2009 is in the history books now but the spirit of sharing that went on there continues. For the attendees, the friendships made are priceless, and the exchange of ideas is a large part of the value of the conference. We can’t duplicate the in-person experience, nor would we want to try. However, for those who were not able to attend, or for the attendees that need a refresher on the concepts learned, we are making this central repository available. We will link to the slides as we are made aware of them by the speakers. Not all speakers will release slides or audio and that is fine with us. However, those speakers who do release them, this list will server as the official repository.
We will release the audio from the speakers who have given us permission. They will be released approximately once every two weeks here on techPortal. Check back often to see what is new and take part in the discussion on the sessions that have been released.
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by Ian Barber |
| June 8, 2009
Why CSS Frameworks?
CSS frameworks or libraries are intended to solve the same problems as any programming library – to make certain tasks easier, and to standardise repetitive work. They grew from various front end developers realising they were doing the same cross browser resets and layout setups over and over again, who refined these standard parts of their processes and released them publicly.
These frameworks can be, and have been, used to layout production sites, but they are perfect for prototyping and ‘undesigned’ areas – the administration pages, web GUIs and intranets that are often left entirely to the developer in terms of the look and feel. They offer easy and straightforward ways of putting together better looking and easier to use sites, by encouraging the use of some basic principles of design.
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by Cal Evans |
| June 5, 2009
On May 30th, 2009, eZComponents hosted the third annual PHP Vikinger Unconference in Leuven, Belgium. Among the speakers there were Derick Rethans and Scott MacVicar, both of whom were at the recent two day “PHP Developers Meeting” in Chicago, IL, US.
This 40 minute video is them discussing the notes that were taken at that meeting, and what is coming for the future of PHP.
Andrei Zmievski blogged about the same notes recently in his post titled “PHP Developers Meeting Notes“. He finished editing them and they are now available for public review on the php.net wiki.
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by Stefan Koopmanschap |
| April 28, 2009
If you read articles, visit websites, read tech books or visit conferences you will undoubtedly have heard about the term refactoring. There is a good chance you’ve been refactoring yourself already, whether you knew it or not. In this article you will be introduced to the practice of refactoring. The basic definition will be discussed, as well as reasons for refactoring and how to actually refactor your code. The difference between refactoring your code and rewriting your code will also be explained.
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by Peter Verhage |
| April 23, 2009
Introduction
NU.nl is a well known news website in its homeland, The Netherlands, and is actively expanding into other countries. On an average day NU.nl will serve up 7 million page views; peak traffic days are more than triple that number. In short, it is one of the top 10 Dutch web sites in terms of traffic. Previously, on our corporate blog, Erik Snoeijs discussed the technologies deployed while building out the back-end of NU.nl in is article “NU.nl; the back end”. In this article we want to look at the frontend that we architected for NU.nl, and how we designed the system to handle both regular traffic and peaks.
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by Stefan Koopmanschap |
| April 15, 2009
One of the biggest struggles in any software development company is “Buy vs. Build”. How do you strike a balance between writing custom software and purchasing off-the-shelf solutions. This is something that is very hard and everyone gets it wrong every once in a while. In this article we will explore the way that Ibuildings approaches this issue, in the hopes that it helps others in getting it right more often.
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by Vito Chin |
| March 31, 2009
Introduction
Cloud computing refers to the utilization of shared, elastic resources and processing power accessed via the Internet. In some ways, it hails the reversion to the golden age of time-sharing but with significant improvements to the distribution philosophies underlying the delivery infrastructure. So, analogously, we now have the shared wonders of Hyde Park, where everyone and anyone can chill on the bench, throw some Frisbee, instead of having to financially pool money to buy a private park to shoot rabbits.
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by Cal Evans |
| March 23, 2009
We love giving stuff away to developers. So we are really happy to be able to announce that our friends at DPC09, Microsoft, and Leaseweb have come together with us to sponsor the first ever European WinPHP Challenge.
We want you to build your next Open Source project on IIS7/PHP and win prizes.
First prize is airfare, hotel and a ticket to MIX10 in Las Vegas, NV-US!
Come help us celebrate the great progress that the PHP Windows team has made in making PHP a First Class citizen on Windows. Be a part of what I’m sure will be an annual event for years to come.
Details can be found here on the DPC09 Wiki
Registration opens April 2nd and you must register before April 15th to participate. Winners will be announced during the closing keynote at DPC09.
Check out the wiki for full details and contest rules and please help us spread the word.
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