I have been selected to speak at PHP Quebec at the end of March. Given big names in PHP like Ilia Alshanetsky and Derick Rethans will be there (– and I will finally get to meet Chris Shiflett face-to-face), I am honored by this opportunity to share my experience bringing PHP to the enterprise. I …
Along with the current issue containing my article on the ZCE exam, International PHP Magazine has announced a bold new move: they’re going digital, and staying there. Publishing a PDF version every month will allow them to reach an international audience faster (my contributor’s copies sometimes took months to arrive from Germany!). And, while I …
A sidebar to a recent article in CIO Magazine framed the competition between Microsoft and Google as a competition between .NET and Ajax. Essentially, while Microsoft is banking on integrating familiar desktop applications (like Windows, Word and Excel) with web services via .NET, Google is pushing the envelope of the GUI experience in the browser …
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While some are calling it vaporware, others have suggested wishlists of features for Zend’s recently announced PHP framework. Given how much I have been writing lately about best practices with PHP in the enterprise, I figured I’d chime in. Here’s my list:
Chris Shiflett‘s latest book, Essential PHP Security, should be required reading for all PHP professionals. It is the necessary antidote to the common misperception that PHP applications fall short on security. With sparkling clarity, Chris demystifies dozens of attacks and provides both solid theoretical and practical bases for coding securely in PHP. Throughout his work …
What Zend’s recent announcement actually means has been the buzz of the PHP blogosphere lately. While their partnership with Eclipse is fairly easy to understand (in some ways, I always wondered if their slogan, “The PHP Company” might accurately changed to “the IDE company” since their main focus has been on the Zend Studio for …
