Read first, then tweet, for a free book
A few weeks ago I blogged that I was going to give away 9 copies of my book, You want to do WHAT with PHP? Well, today is the day to start. There are a few ways you can win.
View Article@DragonBe is awesome
After I posted my slides for use by user groups Michelango van Dam of PHPBenelux posted on the Zend Facebook page that people could use his too. They are CC-licensed so you are free to use them as...
View ArticleGetting good PHP programmers
One of the interesting conversations I had during Zendcon was while talking to a recruiter. She asked what questions she could ask to help guage how strong a PHP developer is. The best one I could come...
View ArticleThis week’s book giveaway
This Friday I will be giving away the second (technically 4th and 5th) copies of my book "You want to do WHAT with PHP?" The rules still apply; if you win I will ask you to cover shipping costs. See...
View ArticleLast Facebook and Twitter book giveaway
OK, this is it. The LAST giveaway for "You want to do WHAT with PHP?" The giveaway will occur at the end of the day on Tuesday! This will also be the second last giveaway for the User Group library....
View ArticleBuilding better PHP programmers, part 2
I have no "findings", no "conclusions", but I have some thoughts on my continuing goal to help bad/nominal PHP programmers become better PHP programmers.The first question I asked is "Is there really a...
View ArticleObjections to dynamic typing
I am about to head out to Magento Imagine to speak on queuing and scalability. So what is today's blog post about? Dynamic typing; which has absolutely nothing to do with scalability. Every once in a...
View ArticleI hate config files
I hate config files. There, I said it. Made a change to your configuration? Database? Temp location? Gotta redeploy your application. Even if you have an awesome deployment mechanism it just seems...
View ArticleWhat I would love in PHP-FPM
I love most things about PHP, but what I don’t like is that in order for me to do any kind of asynchronous processing I need to create an infrastructure. In other words, I need to build a queuing...
View ArticleI’m actually really excited about Hack and HHVM
When you get to be my age you start thinking about the future. You start wondering if some of the choices you made when you were younger. You wonder if those choices are going to come back and haunt...
View ArticleThe server requested authentication method unknown to the client...
I updated my server this morning, moving from Zend Server PHP 5.3 to 5.6 but when I did I got a really weird error. The server requested authentication method unknown to the client [mysql_old_password]...
View ArticleLooking for some PHP/Magento contract work
I am looking for some contract work for PHP and/or Magento. Magento 1 is where my primary focus lies, though… The post Looking for some PHP/Magento contract work appeared first on ESchrade - Kevin...
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