ZendCon kicked off on 17 October in Santa Clara, California. The surprise of the conference was the announcement of the launch of Zend Developer Cloud during Zend’s CEO Andi Gutmans’ opening keynote speech.
Author » Neil Broers
07 Jul 2011
Aah, the old programming language debate, much akin to comparing religions or political parties – bound to end up in a fist fight. Some will argue that as long as you choose the right tool for the job, it doesn’t matter, but I’ve found it’s always the little things that break the camel’s (or in this case, the programmer’s) back.
I wrote a little Python pet project (mind the pun) this week after years of web development using only PHP. As a matter of fact, my first job was a Python position. Eventually, as I started doing GUI development in Delphi, Python was relegated to odd jobs and hacks. When I started doing PHP development, Python became redundant and eventually my skills became rusty as old nails. Until now.
20 Jan 2011
Developers are strange creatures. Give them complex problems to solve and they are happy as can be. Expose them to sunlight and they hide under their desks. Here are some tips that (in my opinion) will help you keep your developers happy and productive.
02 Aug 2010
Recently I went to Luke Welling’s presentation entitled “PHP in the 21½th Century” at OSCON. He mentioned something interesting that got me thinking, something he calls “The Smarty Trap”. This trap occurs when someone decides to write a template engine with “a simple syntax that designers can understand” – it starts with some includes and printing a variable here and there. All goes well until he realizes he needs looping, so he builds loops into the language. And so it continues until the template engine is as complicated as any other programming language.
23 Jul 2010
Drizzle is a relatively new project with the aim of producing a lightweight relational database system based on MySQL.
11 Nov 2009
October 2009 saw my return to San Jose for one of the top conferences on the PHP calendar – ZendCon. Other than taking place a month later and the conference venue shifting locations slightly, much of the format of this year’s ZendCon was the same as last year’s.
