The PHP North West User Group ran it’s 4th (and largest yet!) PHP conference – PHPNW11 in Manchester last weekend. Once again there were three main tracks to the conference, a total of 15 speakers from both near and wide to choose from. New this year was the fourth track – the Unconference (perhaps lightning [...]
As mentioned in this new post to her blog Lineke Kerckhoffs-Willems and Kim Rowan are starting a new project to provide audio and video recordings of tutorials specifically targeted towards PHP developers – ProTalk. We feel that video and audio recordings have been an underrated medium for too long. We believe they actually provide an [...]
On the php|architect site today there’s an opinion piece from Marco Tabini with his thoughts on why software fails – not why the project itself fails, but why the software fails to be useful. This is a much more common problem than engineers and architects are willing to admit. Far too often I see someone [...]
On PHPMaster.com today there’s a new tutorial about using the Zend_Pdf component of the Zend Framework to generate invoices from the billing data in your application. The PDF format is currently the most used format to exchange documents. If you provide your website users with printable versions of invoices, event tickets and other similar documents, [...]
In a recent post to his blog Christian Schaefer shows how to use the Goutte tool (a web scraper) to pull information from one site and use it in another Silex-powered one. His tutorial uses a custom service provider for the integration. Since I discovered the free Facebook App hosting by heroku I keep wanting [...]
Some time ago, inspired by the #linktuesday initiative Lorna started, I built this relatively simple website which I put on LinkTuesday.com. It fetches tweets from Twitter with the #linktuesday hashtag, groups them together and then displays them in various rankings. Insanely simple idea, insanely simple execution.
Looks as if we have the next member in the “I want to become Caliph instead of the Caliph” club: PHPreboot This is just a braindump of thoughts on the various bullet points and examples on the projects home page (but i don’t think it’s worth any more time to analyze it and comment on [...]
I’ve finally taken the plunge and moved the SabreDAV source from Google code to GitHub. The main reason is that I’m hoping that people are more likely to fork and contribute. This was possible as well on googlecode, but I think people had a bit more trouble getting used to the feature. Mercurial is still [...]
