php|architect: PHP Training: April and May Schedules Posted
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php|architect has posted their schedule today for the April and May times for their training classes. They offer three courses:  PHP Essentials - a beginner-level introduction to PHP programming. If you're new to PHP, this is where you should start. PHP 5 Certification - prepare for the Zend certification exam here. While this course is focused on ZCE, it is also an excellent intermediate-level PHP course. Professional PHP - take your code to the next level. This course covers advanced PHP techniques.  Each of the courses is instructor-lead and can be taken from anywhere with an internet connection. Check out the prices and full schedule on their training website.
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Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:Clay Loveless' Blog: Monitor PHP Extension Releases with Y! PipesCommunity News: New PHP5 Framework Release - WebMeshJob Posting: HedgeCo Networks Seeks Web Design/Programming Intern (Palm Beach, FL)Community News: FirePHP Firefox PHP ExtensionWeb Development Blog: Dynamic thumbnails from websitesSebastian Bergmann's Blog: phpOpenTracker Logo ContestJob Posting: Yahoo! Seeks PHP/LAMP DevelopersRob Allen's Blog: Zend Framework Tutorial for 0.7Hannes Magnusson's Blog: PHP.net frontpage changesZend Developer Zone: PHP in Action - Chapter 7, Design Patterns. Part - IJob Posting: WAMU 88.5, American University Radio Seeks Web Developer (Washington, DC)Richard Lord's Blog: Managing 404 errors in the Zend FrameworkTerry Chay's Blog: Clever HTTPDaniel Krook's Blog: A DB2 driver for CakePHPZend Developer Zone: PHP: Performance, Scalability, and Web Services Podcast
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Joshua Eichorn has posted some slides that he presented at a local PHP User Group meeting just passed that serve as an introduction to PEAR.   I'm hoping to improve the slides a bit and give this presentation at lots of other places. If any PHP User groups on the west coast would like me to do a presentation about PEAR drop my a line.   To help further the cause of PEAR, he's also offering the slides in an archived file for presentation anywhere.
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Ivo Jansch is very happy to announce that it's official - he will be authoring a book for php|architect all about PHP in the Enterprise:   It will be one of the first books about PHP that will not cover PHP code. It is loosely based on my 'enterprise PHP development' talk at the Zend UK Business Conference last year. It will cover the entire development lifecycle of a software project, but targeted at PHP development teams.   He points out that the first version of the book will be handed in in March so ideally it will be released soon after that. He's also open to ideas/content suggestions/etc that you might want to post to his blog for consideration.
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Ilia Alshanetsky posts today about the proposed "Month of PHP bugs" that Stefan Esser is proposing:   It would be interesting to see what issues he discovers, hopefully most of them have already been reported to the PHP Security Team, in which case the upcoming 5.2.1 release will provide a resolution path for affected users.   Hopefully, as Ilia states, the bugs will not turn out to be zero-day vulnerabilities and will instead be smaller issues. Either way, a bug-fix patch will probably soon follow.   Either way, I have to look at this as a free security audit of PHP by someone with a clue about security and ultimately, in the long run it will only make PHP better, even if March is going to be rather busy.
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This week's latest PHPBarnstormer has been posted.
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Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:PHPClasses.org: File upload progress meter for PHP 4, at last!Zend Developer Zone: Zend Framework Preview Release 0.6.0 AnnouncedIBM developerWorks: Generate Flash movies on the fly with PHPMike Bernat's Blog: Creating a Simple Registration Script using PHPphp|architect: An overview of the CakePHP frameworkPHPBuilder.com: Reading RSS feeds in PHP: Part 2The Bakery Blog: SwiftMailer Component TutorialPHP-GTK Community Site: Merry Christmas (A Holiday Widget)Ben Ramsey's Blog: Installing the Eclipse PHP IDEZend Developer Zone: Zend Studio 5.5 WalkthroughCommunity News: Vancouver PHP Conference 2007Edin Kadribasic's Blog: BenchmarksJSLabs Blog:  phpBB 3...is it worth the wait?Christopher Jones' Blog: Installing Oracle XE on Ubuntu with PHPChris Chabot's Blog: phpSocketDaemon
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Sebastian Bergmann is attending this year's php/db|works conference happening in Toronto and has already posted some of his experiences and photos from the event to his blog today.   He summarizes both Monday (flights and sleep) and Tuesday, "Tutorial Day". Specifically, he mentions attending the PHP 5 Certification Crash Course and the Extending PHP talk given by Wez Furlong.   He's also posted some photos of the event over on his Flickr account to check out some of the festivities.
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Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:Zend Developer Zone: Book Review: Learning PHP Data ObjectsProDevTips: Writing a CMS/Community with Smarty and the Zend Framework: Part 7Ivo Jansch's Blog: Book announcement: Enterprise PHP DevelopmentEvan Sims' Blog: Announcing libGameFlySite News: Popular Posts for the Week of 12.28.2007Reinhold Weber's Blog: From PHP to Ruby - 30 similarities and differencesSanisoft Blog:  Theming your CakePHP apps (V1.2)John Lim's Blog: Why Should PHP ever be taught in school?Zend Developer Zone: Profiling PHP Applications With xdebugCommunity News: A Look Back at 2007
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Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:PHP-Coding-Practices.com: How I Turned A Slow Array Sort Into A Quick One Using Quicksort AlgorithmZend Developer Zone: PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 4: Planning ProgrammingWeb Development Blog: Save bandwidth with PHProxy and ip2nationJob Posting: Assembleron Ltd Seeks PHP 5/MySQL/Ajax Developers (Reading, UK)PÃ¡draic Brady's Blog: Complex Views with the Zend Framework - Part 6: Setting The TerminologyThe Bakery: Four New Articles - Load Balancing, Request Info, UUID Behavior & Upload ThumbnailsCommunity News: PEAR Installer version 1.6.0 releasedChristopher Kunz's Blog: Building PHP with cURL and libmysqlclient5DevShed: Working with Prepared Queries with PDO Objects in PHP 5Secunia.com: rPath update for gd, php, php-mysql, and php-pgsql
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On the Zend Developer Zone, Cal Evans has posted a quick look at one of the new offerings from the Manning Publishing group - "PHP in Action".   My buddy Olivia over at Manning Publications sent us a present recently. They are working on the title PHP in Action and they sent us a chapter to share with you. PHP in Action is scheduled to release in April of this year but it's available now in "Manning Early Release Program", or MEAP. MEAP is a cool program that allows you to buy the book long before it is released and have access to the chapters as they are released. Then, when the final dead-tree edition ships, they will send you one. The great thing is, there is no additional cost for MEAP.   He links to the book's description on the Manning site and gives some credit to the authors, Dagfinn Reiersol with Marcus Baker and Chris Shiflett. And, of course, the link to the sample chapter from the book - a look at Design Patterns.
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In his latest blog post, Wolfgang Drews is pointing out a training class his other site, DynamicWebPages.de, is doing for the Zend Framework.   Just a short shameless Plug for all who it may concern: Dynamic Web Pages holds a free information webinar about the new php5-certification in german language next week wednesday, 13th of december at 3 p.m.   Christian Wenz with be the facilitator and you can get complete information and sign up on phpzertifizierung.eu.
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php|architect magazine has officially announced the schedule for their upcoming  php|tek conference happening in Chicago.   This year's speakers include a who's who of the PHP community, including Rasmus Lerdorf, Andrei Zmievski, Ilia Alshanetsky and Wez Furlong, as well as many php|architect regulars, like Jeff Moore and Chris Shiflett, and, of course, a number new faces with some thrilling talks planned for the conference.   You can get the full details on the conference and sing up today over on the main conference site or just check out the schedule to see what's being offered.
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Latest PHPClasses.org Releases:Smarty and MIME message integrationYour SayphpPhotoGalleryInterfacesIlariaParser 7just7.comaDB PDO like database abstractionSAMP Socket
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Ilia Alshanetsky has an announcement on his blog today about the release of the next candidate for the upcoming PHP 5.2 series - PHP 5.2.0RC5.    After 2 weeks of inaction 5.2.0 final release is finally in sight. A few minutes ago I've released the last (I mean it this time) release candidate of 5.2.0, RC5. If all goes well a week from now 5.2.0 final will be out ready for use. In the meantime I'd like to ask once again that everyone try this RC, which can downloaded from here.   I don't think you'd be able to find any major issues or regressions in this RC, but if you do certainly let me know, if necessary RC6 is not out of the question.    The more this new release is downloaded and tested, the faster we all get PHP 5.2 - so get out there and get testing!   The Windows builds have also already been created courtesy of Edin Kadribasic.
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Over on the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo site, they've formally announced the official schedule of events for the conference, giving times and dates for each of the talks.    Day One will see talks on: XML/Web Services, Best Practices, Extending PHP, and Security talk. You'll also be able to take the "Crash Course" before the Zend PHP5 Certification test in a two part series. Day Two is jammed with even more PHP goodness with talks covering: Scalable PHP Applications, eBay Web Services, a PHP case study, a great Panel Discussion, Ajax and Web Services, working with the Zend Framework, and Speeding up PHP with Oracle. Day Three has talks covering: Moving to PHP5, Moving an Enterprise to PHP, PHP/Rich Internet Applications, PDO, and PHP Lifecycle Management. Day Four (finishing things up) is shorter with talks on: Unicoding with PHP6, Consuming Web Services with PHP-GTK2, Testing with PHPUnit, Developing PHP on Windows, and the closing keynote from Robert "r0ml' Lefkowitz   And, of course, any time after the first day, you can take the PHP5 Certification Exam instead of attending one of the sessions.   Haven't signed up yet? You can reserve your spot today and get in on all of the PHP goodness a presented by some of the best speakers around. Unforutnately, the Early Bird Special as passed, but check out the Registration page for all of the details on prices.
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Job postings for the past week:Job Posting: Weatherly Technologies (Recruiter) Seeks Senior PHP Developer (NYC MEtro)Job Posting: Maryland Company Seeks Web Application Developer (Frederick, MD)Job Posting: MODE Visual Seeks PHP Developer (Charlotte, NC)