SLCC '07: Chicago is the metaverse's metropolis
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Blog: The Windy City has more in common with 'Second Life' than you'd think. Also, nonprofits may be reaping the benefits of the virtual world better than their corporate predecessors could.
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Never a dull moment in local these days as I learn of new sites almost daily. I spoke this morning with Ben Saren, CEO of Boston-based Citysquares, another &#8220;hyperlocal&#8221; site focused on building out neighborhood listings and community. Right now the site only covers the Boston area but Saren envisions expansion and scaling.  We discussed all [...]
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In a new posting from Stephan Schmidt's weblog about the PHP-World Conference in Munich:  I'm back from attending the PHP-World Conference in Munich, Germany, where I presented a case-study ((PDF) of my daily work at 1&1 Internet AG.
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Chris Shiflett has posted his own recap of the (just passed) php|works conference up in Toronto over on his blog.   I've been traveling non-stop since php|works, so I haven't had a chance to reflect on the conference, what I learned, who I met, and things like that. (Zak has been doing a good job of this lately, and I'd like to follow his lead.) I've probably forgotten more than I remember, but this is my recap.   Included in the things he mentions are:  The people he was able to meet (like Joshua Eichorn and Sebastian Bergmann) The talks he gave ("Truth about XSS" and "Agile PHP Testing") His interview with Cal Evans of the Zend Developer Zone The PHP 5 Certification and Wez Furlong's "Not PDO" talk
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In this post on the Zend Developer Zone, Cal Evans takes a look at an article published in a recent php|architect issue from Chris Hartjes about how several recent advancements in the PHP community have helped developers think more in "the Rails way" of development.   Chris does a good job of laying out his points. As with any article of this nature, you are going to agree with some of them and you'll disagree with some of them. However, to get to that point you'll have to consider all of them. That's really the point of the article; making developer sit back and think for a minute. It's well worth the read.   Cal also mentions some of the topics presented in the article including more conceptual ideas like "Convention Over Configuration" and "Rapid Should Mean Rapid".
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The view out of Lois Weisberg&#39;s office window is of the dazzling art installations at the new Millennium Park and the Art Institute of Chicago, one of the world&#39;s great museums.
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The city's development scene starts fresh after the dot-com crash, and the Future of Web Apps conference offers proof. Robert Andrews reports from London.
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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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Ben Ramsey, a speaker at both the Zend/PHP Conference 2006 and the International PHP Conference 2006, has posted a monster wrap up for both events to his blog today.   This post is long overdue, but I was finally able to sit down and type out my thoughts about the Zend/PHP Conference and Expo and the International PHP Conference.    First up is his look at the Zend conference - largely a good experience. He specifically mentions the talk from Rob Richards, the "Extending PHP" tutorial session (with Sara and Marcus), and the infamous misunderstanding about his laptop bag (which was resolved shortly after the conference had concluded).   His experience with the International PHP Conference went equally well, despite the location of the event being slightly more out of the way than some liked. He comments on the excellent conference materials provided, the types of attendees, and some of the talks he attended - Aaron Wormus' "Mastering enterprise-level PHP tools PEAR, PhpDocumentor and testing" and Sata Golemon's "Navigating Streams" being among them. If you like to check them out, he's also posted some photos of the conference and a night out around the town he took.
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For all of those PHPers out there that live in Utah (specifically in the Bluffdale area - a bit south of Salt Lake City) and want to meet up with some fellow PHP developers - you should check out the uphpu group tomorrow night.
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Google buys a mapquest of its own. Also: Sharp takes us to the future of television in 3-D & hellip;.  PayPal finds a way to make amends for mistakes & hellip;. and more.
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As I was driving all over &#8220;God&#8217;s creation&#8221; today, from meeting to meeting, there were a number of interesting developments and announcements. The first concerned the enhancements to the Google Local Business Center. Barry Schwartz has a terrific, thorough overview of each of the new features:  Add photos to your Google Maps listing Add custom (data) attributes [...]
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Blog: A recap of what went on at the 'Second Life' convention this weekend in Chicago.
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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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The third annual Second Life Community Conference features plenty of hopeful talk about lofty new possibilities for the virtual world.
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Teaching online isn't unusual, but professors are taking advantage of Linden Lab's 3-D metaverse to shape meeting spaces to their needs and provide an added dimension to learning. By Daniel Terdiman.
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Cities are the future of the world, and slums are the future of the city.