Zend Developer Zone: PHP Abstract Episode 31: Book Review - Sitepoint's PHP Anthology, 2nd Ed.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted the latest episode of their PHP Abstract podcast series - a book review of one of SitePoint's latest PHP-related books, the "PHP Anthology, Second Edition".   Let's start the year off right with a book review. Today, I will review SitePoint's new PHP book, The PHP Anthology: 101 Essential Tips, Tricks & Hacks.   There's three ways to get your podcast fix - you can either subscribe to the PHP Abstract feed, download the mp3 directly, or just head over to the post on the Zend Developer Zone and use the embedded player.
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Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:The bla.st Blog: Process your URLs in PHP with Apache mod_rewrite and wildcard DNSZend Developer Zone: Book Review : PHP and MySQL by ExampleBen Ramsey's Blog: Zend Executable Debugger Eclipse PluginIlia Alshanetsky's Blog: PHP 5.2.1 RC1 Available for testingphp|architect: 7-Day Promo Fest BeginsNew Earth Online: Detecting Users OnlinePHPBuilder.com: Beginning Ajax with PHP: From Novice to ProfessionalVexxhost.com: Top 5 new (and cool!) features in PHP5 that you probably haven't heard ofFelix Geisendorfer's Blog: A PHP developers guide to JavaScript - Part 1DevShed: Introducing Bridge Classes with PHP 5Book Review: The Design of Sites: Patterns for Creating Winning Web SitesPaul Jones' Blog: New Year's BenchmarksHowToForge.com: Building Apache with PHP,MySQL, OCI8 instant client supportManfred Weber's Blog: Consuming PHP SOAP Webservices with Flash - Part IZend Developer Zone: Who Uses the Zend Framework?
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted the latest episode of their PHP Abstract podcast today - this time, it's hosted by Cal Evans himself and talks about ways to kill a software project.   We use the analogy "train wreck" for so many things including software development projects gone horribly wrong. I've managed my share of development projects both successful and failures in the past 20 years. Along the I've learned a lot about what it takes to succeed and what it take to fail when building software. Many good books out there will show you how to succeed few have dared to tackle the subject of how to fail. So today I'm going to step out on a limb and do just that.   You can either subscribe to the feed and have the show brought to your front door or you can choose one of two alternate methods - listen right on the page in the embedded player or just download the show on its own and sit back and enjoy some great PHP content.
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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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The Zend Developer Zone has posted their latest podcast in the PHP Abstract series. This time, it's a focus on planning in your programming projects - how to get the most structure out of the simplest planning.   Davey [Shafik] is going to talk to us about one of the most neglected areas of software development, planning the project.   Grab the podcast directly here or subscribe to the feed to get this and other episodes of this quality podcast.
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The Zend Developer Zone has released the latest episode of their PHP Abstract podcast - Episode 8, a look at the CodeIgniter framework as hosted by Ed Finkler.   Our special guest today is Ed Finkler. Ed is a web application developer, security expert, graphic designer, and dabbling musician. He works for CERIAS at Purdue University, and is a member of the PHP Security Consortium. Today Ed is going to give us the lowdown on the PHP based framework, CodeIgniter.   You can download this episode directly here or just subscribe to the podcast feed to get all of the past and future episodes of these quick doses of PHP wisdom.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted the final part of their excerpts from the Manning Publishing book "PHP in Action" today with part three of the Design Patterns chapter.   You know you've been waiting for it, here it is. The final installment of Chapter 7 of PHP in Action by Dagfinn Reiersol. Without further comment, here's the introduction to this section in Dagfinn's own words: "In this section we discuss an Iterator and a Composite."   Dagfinn briefly mentions what the two patterns are about - a "canned loop" and making tree structures easy. Check out the PDF for the remainder of the chapter.
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The Zend Developer Zone has posted the latest podcast in its PHP Abstract series. This time it's hosted by Paul Jones, developer of the Solar framework project, who talks gives an overview of the project and its place in the PHP community.   Today's special guest is Paul M. Jones. Paul is an internationally-recognized expert PHP developer and technical consultant living in Memphis, TN. On his blog, he writes mostly about his software projects, but also touches on management, business, politics, and culture.   You can grab the show directly or subscribe to the feed to get this and more great shows from the podcast (with topics covered like PHP & Java, CodeIgniter, Security and much more)
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PÃ¡draic Brady continues his series looking at the creation of complex views in the Zend Framework with part six today all about gathering together the thoughts and ideas from the previous articles into a cohesive whole.   Part 6 now takes our previous fragments of theory and attempts to stitch them together into a cohesive whole - a description of a possible end solution. Yes, I know code talks loudly, and we'll get there with an almighty bang in Part 7 (which I promise is no more than a week away). Until then it's more verbosity.   He suggests a list of six terms to help get everyone on the same page when talking about the complex views:   Includes Partials Dispatches Layouts Placeholders Response Segments   Since these terms would mean nothing without proper definitions, he provides a few paragraphs on each explaining what they are and, where necessary, using code to illustrate the point.
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Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:PHPBuilder.com: AJAX and PHP Part 2 - XML Communication/ProcessingCommunity News: Zend Framework 1.0.0 ReleasedMike Potter's Blog: Slides for today's e-seminar on Flex and PHPBlogSecurity.net: Interview with Stefan Esser on WordPressCommunity News: India's First PHP UnconferencePro::PHP Podcast: Newscast for 2007.06.28JSLabs Blog:  How to create Microsoft Office Documents with PHPPEAR Blog: Request for ideas: New developer FAQPHP-Coding-Practices.com: Composing Methods: Split Temporary VariableRob Allen's Blog: Spanish versions too!
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On the Zend Developer Zone today, Cal Evans has posted a review of one of Wrox Press' latest PHP-related offerings, "Professional Search Engine Optimization with PHP" (by Jamie Sirovich and Cristian Darie).   I'd like to say that this book has changed my way of thinking about SEO Professionals, but it hasn't. It has, however, given me enough information so that I can make my own projects more SE friendly and allow me to help my friends do the same.   Cal talks about the contents of the book, including his favorite chapter (chapter 2) that gives a quick-hit primer to the world of search engine optimization. The rest of the book is divided up into specialization topics inside of SEO like "SE Friendly URLs", "Duplicate Content" and "Link Bait". Plus, check out what Cal has to say about one of the Appendixes...
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The Zend Developer Zone has made some major announcements about this year's Zend/PHP Conference & Expo including the reveal of one of this year's keynote speakers.   Keynote - We have the name of the final keynote speaker. In case you canlt guess [from the picture], Cory Doctorow, blogger, author and co-editor of Boing-Boing will be speaking on Thursday morning at ZendCon. Speakers - We have a new speaker in the lineup. I'm pleased to announce that Chris Shiflett will be presenting his talk, "Security 2.0". Party 2.0 - Finally I'm excited to announce that at ZendCon this year, we will be hosting the very first "Happy Hour 2.0". In conjunction with Terry Chay and the Lunch 2.0 gang, we will open up the Exhibit Reception to everyone...for free.   You can get more information on the schedules and happenings (oh and register for the conference) over on the main conference website.
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Michael Kimsal has come up with the start of a series to introduce PHP developers to the world of Grails (the Java framework).   The comparisons I plan to make will be mostly to PHP, cause that's what I'm most familiar with, though there may be some other comparisons from time to time.  This is a work in progress, but I'd be very interested in feedback from anyone out there interested in this aea - Grails, Groovy, PHP, why another language/platform/framework, etc.   The first two installments have been posted - part one and part two - with an introduction to what Grails is and a brief dip into some "Hello world" sort of code to give you an idea of the structure.
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On the Zend Developer Zone today, they've posted the latest PHP Abstract Podcast covering the PHP-Java Bridge:   Our special guest today is Kevin Schroder. Kevin is a technical consultant for Zend Technologies' Professional Services Group. He has wide range of experience from large scale system administration to software development in multiple languages. Based out of Dallas, TX, he travels throughout the country for Zend providing consulting, programming and architecture services centered on PHP.   Topics mentioned include the Java Bridge (obviously), the Zend Platform and Zend's Professional Services.    You can either grab the show directly from here or subscribe to their feed and get this and other great shows in the PHP Abstract series.
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Cal Evans has posted his final wrapup from this year's php|works conference up in Toronto on the Zend Developer Zone today.   This last look at the conference includes mentions of:  Joe Stagner's keynote talk,  Cal presenting his talk - "Debugging PHP without cursing...mostly" Wez Furlong's PDO talk Derick Rethans' and his "Ranting Hour" The panel discussion on the Zend PHP 5 Certification PHPers winning at trivia Accordian cover solos John Coggeshall's "Apps Made Easy on Zend Framework" talk    Check out the full post for the rest of the story (especially the accordion music selections!)