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The PHP Zeitgeist is an initiative that allows us to understand what were some of the main new trends and concerns of the PHP developers in the past year. Read this article to learn about what new things PHP developers have been searching more in 2011 and what are their needs that probably still need to be fulfilled.
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It’s always fun to dive into frameworks: often you’ll find little hidden gems that can be of great use in your own projects. A dive into the Windows Azure SDK for PHP learned me that there’s a nifty command line parsing tool in there which makes your life easier when writing command line scripts.
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PHP 5.4 Alpha versions just started to be released. On episode 14 of the Lately in PHP podcast, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert discuss the purpose and interest of the new PHP 5.4 features already implemented in these alpha releases. They also discuss the repercussion in the PHP community of the plan to deprecate the original PHP MySQL extension. Additionally they also talk about a newly releas
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PHPFog is one of the first Cloud Hosting solutions dedicated specifically to PHP. On the Lately in PHP podcast episode 13, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert interview Lucas Carlson, founder and CEO of PHPFog, to tell us about the advantages of using a Cloud Hosting service that is optimized to address needs that are specific to PHP Web sites and applications. They also comment on the PHP 5.3.6 fo
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PHP Fog Ready to Go!
SQL Server 2008 SP1 and Feature Pack CTP
Approval For CDI 1.1 JSR
Possible Spinoff for Yahoo's Software Unit
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Ajax.org today announced the release of Cloud9 IDE to give developers much needed control over their own development environment. According to the company, the cloud-based platform is set to be the IDE of choice for Javascript developers. Their general belief is that as JavaScript applications are meant to run online, it will be practical for the development process to be online as well.
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No, this isn’t another post about taking that step out of the corporate world’s 9-to-5 routine and venturing out on your own. (Though that would make for an interesting future post). This post is more of me asking a question of the development community – PHP or otherwise – to help clear up something in my mind. Let me set the stage…I’ve been developing PHP for….well, let’s just say a long time n
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I’ve spent years using phpMyAdmin. And I’ve recently warmed up to MySQL Workbench. But it wasn’t until this week that I stumbled across Adminer, a single-file PHP application for MySQL administration. It’s hard not to be impressed by Adminer, which is both devilishly simple and elegantly designed.
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A simple tutorial showing how to read and write data to a txt file using php
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Web designing and developing has turned into world’s largest medium of information exchange these days. Moreover, with new techniques introduced for the designing and developing purpose have shown a breakthrough in the world of internet as because of these techniques, we are now able to make online applications.
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The cloud offers enterprises a new approach to deliver applications and it also presents new challenges for developers aiming to build applications for the cloud. Zend, one of the lead commercial vendors behind the open source PHP language, is now accelerating its cloud development efforts with a number of new initiatives.
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The Server Session State pattern is an umbrella term used to describe the various techniques used to keep the user session state on the server, with the only requisite of a session id on the clients to distinguish between different users.
A common implementation of this pattern in languages like Java and PHP is a centralized data source with recursive associative maps where the session ids are t
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Automated testing supports your constant effort in design and refactoring, and besides that ensures that your application actually works in a reliable and repeatable way. Tests at every level of detail are a form of executable specification and documentation. They give you immediate feedback and confidence that your code works, plus a satisfying green bar many times a day.
I've been consulti
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DataModeler is an Open Source ORM I began writing at the beginning of the year. I had experience with ActiveRecord, but was dissuaded from using it all too often because it was difficult to unit test (at least I felt so). Wanting to learn Test Driven Development better, I decided to create my own small ORM framework: DataModeler.
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I have noticed that many that are hot on “NoSQL” are those that do not have any training or interest in learning about database architecture, design or optimization. To them things like CouchDB are away of escaping the need to learn these things. But what many don’t realize is that the replacement for SQL, Map/Reduce, is a more difficult and less intuitive way of querying the data source.
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