Internet's First Business Podcast Directory Launched By iBizRadio
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MINNEAPOLIS, Dec. 18  /PRNewswire/ -- iBizRadio (http://www.ibizradio.com/) today introduced the Internet's first business podcast directory.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted their latest episode of the PHP Abstract podcast hosted by Cal Evans himself covering ways you can attract quality talent to your organization.   Along the way I've picked up a few truths, mainly stolen from people like Joel Spolsky. Some of these ideas can be found in an article I wrote a while ago titled "Nerd Herding", a link to which can be found in the show notes. Recently, I've had many people ask me variations of the same question, "How do I find talented programmers?" So today, I'm going to share with you some of the things I've learned.   The latest show is available for direct download or, as always, you can subscribe to their feed to get this and lots of other great shows.
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Bid4Spots (http://www.bid4spots.com)  today reported that it has signed 200 Internet radio stations within the  first month of announcing the industry's first  reverse auction to facilitate buying and selling advertising for  independent online radio.
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Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:Job Posting: National Auto Warranty Seeks MySQL DBAJob Posting: National Auto Warranty Seeks PHP Web App Developer (Wentzville, MO)DevShed: Creating a Login Script for a PHP Invoicing SystemZak Greant's Blog: The eZ partner program (response to Seth Gottlieb's Commercial O/S business post)php|architect: Application-level Logging with the Zend FrameworkPaul Reinheimer's Blog: Object-Oriented PHP, Concepts, Techniques, and CodeRyan Malesevich's Blog: Fight Spam Comments with Bad Behavior and AkismetZend Developer Zone: SQLite: Lean, Mean DB MachineBuilderau.com.au: Cache PHP scripts with APC modulePro-PHP Podcast: Interview With Cal EvansSitePoint PHP Blog: PHP extension for Cairo graphics libraryTechnobabbler.com: making a radar loop with PHPDevShed: Working with MySQL Result Sets and the Decorator Pattern in PHPJob Posting: exhibit-E Seeks Interactive Developer (New York, NY)Jacob Santos' Blog: Patterns for PHP: Page Controller Draft
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A Silicon Valley startup hoping to become "the Google of audio and video" introduced software this week that trolls the Internet for podcasts, music and videos, then sorts the clips into categories such as "fashionista," "hip hop" and "gossip snoop."
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Blog: In an attempt to better organize the news coming out of Second Life, a new streaming radio station emerges to disseminate information about the oft-fragmented virtual world.
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AudioFeast, a two-year-old start-up company based in Mountain View, California, has launched what it claims is the first Internet radio service for portable  MP3 players.
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In a new post to his blog today, Stuart Herbert continues the theme he started in a previous post about a business case for PHP. In this new entry, he shares some things he's done to further the effort.   To turn this from an idea into reality, I've setup a Google group where anyone who is interested can join in, and help build this resource. Please come along with your ideas and concerns, and let's see what we can achieve together.   He also suggests some "first steps" to get the ball rolling, namely a list of topics the business case needs to cover.
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The Frankenstein-style gadget combines audio/video playback, VOIP, Wi-Fi, pseudo-GPS and podcast software. In Listening Post.
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Jim Plush has posted an offifical release announcement about his latest contribution to the PHP community - a debugging tool combining PHP (through the myBIC framework) and the Firefox FireBug extension.   I put together a couple pieces of technology to give the PHP community a debugger/profiler that should make life easier in the "web2.0" world. Are you tired of echo'ing print statements in your ajax calls? Writing to log files? Firing up big ol debuggers just to see what the value of some array is? Well look no further than the new MyBic PHP Debugger.   The tool is a smaller part of his larger MyBIC framework and can do things like writing log files, echo information back out to the screen, and communicate information back out to the Firefox user. There is a standalone version of FireBug that will be posted for those that don't want to have to install an entire framework to use it.   Keep an eye out (here and on his blog) for the links to the release when it's posted. In the meantime, you can check out a screencast [mov] of the package in action or just the screenshots in the blog entry.
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SCOTTSDALE, Ariz., Feb. 26  /PRNewswire/ -- In December 2006, Brent Spore, Creative Director of Synergy Productions Inc., a Scottsdale based Graphic and Media Design firm, launched a new blog, iBoughtaMac.com (iBAM), in an effort to supply information to the growing number of new Mac users.
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Sentero.net, a site offering mp3 music  downloads, recently launched a free music streaming service sure to  appeal to all music lovers. Inventors promise the new service will  redefine both Internet radio and  music marketing on the internet.
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By Julio Ojeda-Zapata, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Dec. 15--Scott Bourne felt "a bolt of lightning running down my spine" when he heard about podcasting a year or so ago.
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Found in the search marketing forums: AdWords Monitoring; Life Without the Little Green Bar; Help With Starting; and more.
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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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On The Bakery today, there's three new examples of how the CakePHP framework was used to create three very different types of sites - PremierMarinas.com, ScienceHack.com and a simple iPhone-compatible application.   In the first article they describe how they built a "powerful, full featured CMS" to allow their customers to login and work with their personal information. It included the use of JSON messaging and the use of dynamic libraries. The article for the second site talks about the creation of a search engine for science videos to provide a more reliable resource for fellow video enthusiasts. He talks about what all he learned in the process and the design of the application. Check out the end result here. Finally, the third article talks about the creation of an application for the iPhone - "an app that would allow other users to add RSS feeds and I could go look for some and add them to my collection". He details the process he went through to create the application and the modules that he used to accomplish it.   Check out the rest of The Bakery for more great CakePHP-related articles and tutorials.
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In the coming weeks and months you'll probably see me writing about issues of podcatchers here, because I'm working on one. It's the third one I've written, so this time maybe I'll get it right.  A lot of things have changed since I wrote my first podcatcher back in 2001. 1. Back then there were no podcasts, so it was a proof of concept, a chicken without an egg (or an egg with no chicken), a step in a bootstrap. Today there are lots of podcasts. An embarassment of riches. 2. Back then implementing a podcatcher was simple, there was exactly one format to support, RSS 2.0 with enclosures. Today, luckily, it's still fairly simple, as far as the format goes. The only variability is the iTunes namespace, which complicates things, just a little.  3. Today there are enough users to make it possible to support lists of podcasts published by fans, and instead of just subscribing to the podcast feeds, you can subscribe to lists of feeds. I will publish one of these lists, in OPML 2.0 format, as a proof of concept.  4. The first version of this new podcatcher will run in the OPML Editor because that's where all my software runs at first. But the goal is to port it to run in other environments, some with millions of users. I want to provide a popular alternative to the one that Apple publishes which currently dominates the market. (Note: I'm generally pleased with the way Apple dominates, they've been very fair about allowing users to export their subscription lists. But if we want to create the opportunity for others to innovate in the area of podcast players, there has to be choice at the podcatcher level. That's my main motive for revisiting this area.) There probably are some other changes, and I'll write about them as the project moves forward. Now.... To people who say that Apple has the market sewn up, I say Bah! I think iPods are great, but they're designed to play music, not podcasts. Every bit of music is something you want to keep forever, a podcast loses almost all its value after you've listened to it once. You have to pay for music (in theory at least) but podcasts are free.  Podcasts beg to have a player that can download them without synching with a desktop computer. Okay that's something podcasts have in common with music.  I buy Apple products all the time. I've gone from resenting Apple so much that I wouldn't buy their products, as recently as 2005, to today when not only do I only use Macs, but I'm constantly telling people why they'd be better off using Macs. I can't help but evangelize the products, I think they're that much better than Windows PCs.  But as much as I love Apple (can't believe I actually said that) I still don't trust them with a whole medium. We need them to have competition. The rest of the tech industry seems to think they're immune to it, that creates a huge opportunity with someone with enough chutzpah to think they can do it. Yours truly, Dave Winer