Anyone who knows me knows that I am a fanboy of two great companies: Google and Zend.
No, wait...come back. This isn't really about either of them!!
Actually, it's about you. Are you looking to beef up your skills and catch some new ideas, but don't have a lot of free time? How does Free PHP Conference from your car sound?
Great! Well grab that smartphone or MP3 player and an FM transmitter (if your radio is old like mine) and take some free sessions from ZendCon on the road! There are three great ways to subscribe:
- Subscribe Google Listen on that Android phone of yours to subscribe to the ZendCon Sessions Podcast . (Or use any other RSS reader)
- Point itunes at iTunes podcast link
- Or, just visit http://devzone.zend.com/podcasts/zendconsessions right from your browser.
Either way, 30 conference sessions from ZendCon 2008 and 2009 are out there and growing. All ready for easy download.
Don’t know where to start? I currently enjoying Episode 26: Best Practices of PHP Development from ZendCon 2008. It’s 3 hours of content, so don’t do it all in one sitting. But, all great stuff for everyone: Revision control (git and svn), coding standards, testing, documentation generation. A great talk for every developer.
There are also talks on PHP 5.3, CouchDB, Security, PECL, PDO, Query Tuning….and it’s amazing—you really don’t need the slides! But, many of the talks do have their slides hosted on slideshare…just check the browser link above.
So, stop checking up on e-mail on your car ride home, and do something useful! It may just save your life!
Have a great trip!
Our hosting provider moved us to a new server this week. While things seemed to have gone very well, we did have a bit of an outage.
I expect everything else is ok, but if you find anything quirky (well, besides the ancient version of the CMS) let me know with a comment here.
We had a nice rolling conversation this month. Some of the topics that were discussed (in no particular order) were:
Joomla in Search Friendly URLs
For more on Joomla
Zend Framework API Docs - Looking for the Options for each Zend Form Decorator, Just choose the Zend_Form package, and view the Decorators.
Kohana 3 "Pre" release
Unoffical Kohana wiki
Serendipity
As our discussions seemed to revolve around frameworks, you may find some of these recent framework reviews helpful if you are choosing which one you want to try next:
http://designerfoo.com/php-frameworks-first-glimpse-for-beginners.html
Server site, client side frameworks
http://www.noupe.com/php/discussing-php-frameworks.html
Feel free to add more related links to the comments.
This morning, I posted my walk-through for getting Apache, MySQL and PHP working properly on OpenBSD 4.6, which was released last week. The PHP package for OpenBSD already contains the Suhosin Hardened-PHP patches, and Apache is already patched and configured for use in a restricted chroot environment. Arguably, this is the most secure AMP server you'll ever build.
To that end, installation is pretty straight-forward, but there are a few tricks you need to know in order to make your favorite AMP web applications (joomla, wordpress and others) work in this secure environment. I've outlined the entire installation procedure starting from a pristine installation of OpenBSD.
Full article: OAMP: OpenBSD 4.6 + Chroot Apache + MySQL + PHP