Archive for December, 2006

PHP DC conference 2008

Saturday, December 30th, 2006

The DC PHP Developers Group recently announced Kshemendra Paul as a featured keynote speaker at the DC PHP Conference & Expo, June 2-4, 2008, at George Washington University in Washington, DC. Paul, chief architect for the Office of Management and Budget Executive Office of the President, will be presenting on “Federal E-Government and Enterprise Architecture Updates.” Join hundreds of PHP practitioners, business managers, and government officials from around the world in the exchange of ideas and solutions for building a better web application infrastructure. The DC PHP conference will include tracks pertaining to business cases, best practices, the art of PHP, PHP applications, PHP in the enterprise, and Open Source. The full speaker schedule will be announced shortly. For more information about DC PHP Conference & Expo 2008 and to register, please visit www.dcphpconference.com. Early discounted registration rates affective until April 15, 2008

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Chicago php|tek 2007

Thursday, December 28th, 2006

php|architect is proud to announce php|tek 2007, which will take place in Chicago, Illinois (USA) on May 16-18, 2007. This year, the conference once again promises to be an excellent event for PHP developers of all levels, with talks from top PHP experts such as Rasmus Lerdorf, Chris Shiflett, Andrei Zmievski, Ilia Alshanetsky, Sara Golemon, and many more.

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Building Custom PHP Extensions

Tuesday, December 26th, 2006
Title: Building Custom PHP Extensions
Reviewer: Marcelo Santos Araujo
Category: PHP books
Publisher: Lulu Press
Author: Blake Schwendiman
Summary: Overall this is a good introductory book on how to write custom PHP extensions. It is like of a series of how-to documents on this subject.
Building Custom PHP Extensions

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Open Cubic Player

Tuesday, December 19th, 2006

Der Linux Port des legendären (Open) Cubic Player…

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New Delhi PHP UnConference: Call for Speakers/Campers!

Monday, December 18th, 2006

India’s biggest Open Source Unconference “OSS Camp” has been scheduled for September 8 - 9, 2007 in New Delhi. Embedded in the OSS Camp is India’s first community-driven PHP Camp. PHP Camp will bring together the PHP community in a distinctly “unconference” setting. It is an intense event with discussions, demos, and interaction from all participants. Participation is free of cost!. Some of the tracks for PHP camps are Frameworks, Unit Testing, PHP Security, Performance Management, High Availability beside product specific themes like Joomla, Drupal, EZ, Dot Project camps. Participants can add up their sessions on http://www.osscamp.in/OSSCampDelhi/index.php?title=PHP_Camp. You should restrict your sessions to 40 minutes (90 minutes in case of workshop). Your sessions should be hardcore PHP specific sessions.

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Google Summer of Code 2008

Monday, December 18th, 2006

Once again we are glad to announce that we have been accepted to be a Google Summer of Code project. See our program for this year’s GSoC.We would like to take this opportunity to say thanks to Google Inc. for this privilege to participate once again, and would like to invite everyone to look at our list of ideas: http://wiki.php.net/gsoc/2008.Students are of course more than welcome to come up with their own ideas for their proposals and we will consider each and every application that we will receive.So once again, thanks to everyone who is involved in this magnificent journey and we hope to see many of you great students and open source passionate join us in our most enjoyable Google Summer of Code projects.

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Accessible JavaScript: Beyond the Mouse

Wednesday, December 13th, 2006

Is there life beyond the mouse? You bet there is! In this detailed expose, James reveals a world in which scripting is device independent, and users of any type of assistive technology can access our sites. He applies intriguing theory to a number of high-profile sites as he advocates — and provides appropriate code to support the argument — that sites be made truly accessible right from the initial stages of their planning and design.

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Ermitteln der Version der JVM im Internet Explorer - The Microsoft Way

Monday, December 4th, 2006

WTF!?


<HTML xmlns:IE>
<HEAD>
<STYLE>
@media all {
IE\:clientCaps {behavior:url(&default;clientcaps)}
}
</STYLE>
</HEAD>

<BODY>
<IE:clientCaps ID=”oClientCaps” />

<SCRIPT>
sMSvmVersion = oClientCaps.getComponentVersion(”{08B0E5C0-4FCB-11CF-AAA5-00401C608500}”, “ComponentID”);
</SCRIPT>
</BODY>

Gefunden im MSDN

…und der schliessende HTML tag fehlt im Beispiel auch noch…

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My experience moving to PHP5

Sunday, December 3rd, 2006

In August of this year, we decided to move from PHP4 to PHP5 for all our future PHP development. The transition was relatively painless, as the core libraries we use (ADOdb, PHPLens, some PEAR modules) are already PHP5 compliant and have been for some time. What’s nice about PHP5 is that it caught some errors that have been lingering in our code: PHP5 no longer allows a function to be defined twice, and some basic variable referencing errors that we missed previously.

We have ported our key web applications over to run on PHP5, but for some key customers with extremely large PHP4 code bases, we felt it was safer to keep them running on PHP4 for the time being as the cost of migration would be high; and we weren’t sure whether it was worth it as the customers seem to be happy with PHP4’s current performance.

Other things that we have changed is that we have transitioned to using XMLHttpRequest for all our Ajax calls. Formerly we were using the excellent JSRS library, but I can already see most programmers we hire in the future will be more familiar with XMLHttpRequest than JSRS. The nice thing about using XMLHttpRequest is that all XMLHttpRequests can be debugged using the excellent Firebug, a Firefox/Mozilla extension that is extremely useful for Javascript debugging.

I admit we are still retrograde when it comes to exploiting PHP5’s new functionality. Last month, we had to do a presentation so we moved our PHP5 web application to a notebook. Later I found out that notebook only had PHP4 installed. The web application worked flawlessly.

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PHP Québec conference 2008

Saturday, December 2nd, 2006

2008 PHP Quebec Conference & Job Fair The PHP Quebec team is pleased to present the sixth edition of the PHP Quebec Conference. The Conference will take place in Montreal, Canada, on March 12 through 14. Join us for the PHPLabs, 2 days of technical talks, the Open Source Job Fair & Cocktail. Meet with well know community members such as: John Coggeshall, Marcus Boerger, Zak Greant, Chris Shiflett, Damien Seguy and many more. Take note that online registration ends on March 7th. For more information, visit the website: http://conf.phpquebec.com

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