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Wednesday, 31 December 2008

Goodbye 2008!

Wow, what a rollercoaster ride 2008 was; in so many ways. The world faced the biggest financial crisis most of us have ever seen in our lives, the balance of power in the world shifted significantly and fuel prices both had an all time high and a 5 year low in the same year. Crazy times. And I think we haven't seen the end of it yet.

It's hard to analyse what the exact effect of all of this is on our own industry. If you look at TechCrunch's layoff tracker, it is clear that IT was not left unaffected. Several companies that are close to the PHP community have seen layoffs: SUN, current owner of MySQL, laid off about 5000 jobs; Yahoo, the biggest PHP user on the planet, laid off 1500 and even Zend was troubled by layoffs this year.

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Geplaatst door Ibuildings in planetphp op 11:20 | Reacties (8) | Trackback (1)

Tags voor deze bijdrage: 2008, analysis, community, economy, lookback

Thursday, 18 December 2008

Adobe MAX conference report

Back in November Adobe invited a representative of Ibuildings over (thanks Mike!) to attend Adobe MAX North America, amongst a small group of 13 other PHP and AJAX influencers.

The main reason to invite us, was to start a discussion on the direction they go in respect to their Flex and AIR development and to receive feedback on some of the plans they have.

Because of my fitting name, previous experience and current interest in Adobe products like Flex, AIR and Flash Catalyst (Previously known as Thermo), I was the chosen one to represent Ibuildings!

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Geplaatst door Max Westen op 12:41 | Reacties (3) | Trackback (1)

Tags voor deze bijdrage: actionscript, adobe, adobe max, air, alchemy, aptana, conference, flash, flash catalyst, flex, max08, thermo

Monday, 8 December 2008

The 2008 PHP Advent Calender is here!

For the second year in a row, Chris Shiflett is publishing the PHP Advent Calender. This year, with the help of Sean Coats and the design genius of Jon Tan and Jon Gibbins, the PHP Advent Calender has it's own site. (Last year's calender is still available on Chris' blog)

Among the well known PHP community members contributing this year are Chris Cornutt, Lorna Mitchell, and Matthew Weier O'Phinney. Each author participating has volunteered their time and effort to contribute a thought-provoking article to the PHP community.

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Geplaatst door Cal Evans op 09:33 | Reacties (0) | Trackbacks (0)

Tags voor deze bijdrage: advent, articles, christmas, community

Wednesday, 3 December 2008

symfony 1.2: It's not just about code

The first day of december started well: It meant the release of the new symfony 1.2.0 version. Aside from the additions and improvements in the code, this new branch of symfony also reinstates an old tradition in symfony: It comes paired with a huge amount of documentation in many forms. Let's have a look at what symfony 1.2 has to offer.

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Geplaatst door Stefan Koopmanschap in planetphp op 10:38 | Reacties (4) | Trackbacks (0)

Tags voor deze bijdrage: doctrine, documentation, framework, release, symfony

Monday, 1 December 2008

Zend_Paginator: First Impressions

I have been working on a fun project recently which is built on Zend Framework. While looking at options for paginating a large result set, I came across a Zend Framework module called Zend_Paginator ... and it does just what it says on the tin!

The idea of this module is to allow collections of data to be paginated. It takes the set, restricts the results, and can also generate the page numbers you need to move around between the resulting paginated data. Basically it saves me writing the same pagination code multiple times and then having to fix the bug where the last result on the previous page appears on the next ... all this has been thought of already.

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Geplaatst door Lorna Jane Mitchell in planetphp op 15:15 | Reacties (12) | Trackback (1)

Tags voor deze bijdrage: howto, pagination, paginator, zend framework

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