If I had to narrow down my assessment of the Zend Certified Engineer exam to just three pros and cons, here is what they would be: pros bolsters enterprise adoption of PHP with a clear standard for quality developers important, sometimes overlooked concepts like pass-by-reference are covered knowing key functions at the required level of …
Here is a bold statement: I believe the existence of the Zend Certified Engineer Program may do more to further PHP in the enterprise than the release of PHP 5. Why? Because while the features PHP 5 introduces put PHP on par with languages like JSP, the truth is that PHP’s popularity was founded on …
I passed. 200 sample questions, 134 flash cards, and hours of studying later–I am now officially a Zend Certified Engineer. Three months ago, Daniel Kushner offered me a voucher to take the test for free, “to help advance PHP into the enterprise and to endorse PHP as the leading Web development language” since I am …
Dream In Code is sponsoring a 48 hours of code competition complete with some great prizes and interesting problems. Submissions can be in any language, including PHP, so those of you interested should get started now–submissions will be accepted up until 10:00PM EDT on Sunday, August 14, 2005. Code on!
I feel the need to comment on the latest news snippet on the IPM website which claims, “the world’s first entirely free, open-source point-of-sale system” is Information Systems 4 Co-Ops. However, I have been aware of PHP POS for some time now, which makes me suspicious that IS4C is in fact the “world’s first”.
I typically think of “evil” as relegated to the realm of literature and film, or the pretend games we played in grammar school. But, months after writing this article spelling out the fundamentals of recursion and how to apply it in PHP, the debate has been raging recently as to whether or not recursion itself …
