Wednesday, July 1. 2009
Yesterday, the PHP community proudly announced that they have released PHP 5.3. While only the minor version number went up, this is still a significant release containing many new features. Maybe even more important than these new features are several features that have been deprecated. These are features that have been in PHP for legacy reasons, but best practices generally already advised against using them, and now the features are formally deprecated. In a future PHP version they will disappear entirely.
At our Techportal Cal Evans gave an overview of the important changes, to make migration easier for developers. In this post,I'm going to look at the migration from a less technical angle, and explain when migration to PHP 5.3 is a good idea and when not. Continue reading "PHP 5.3 from a development manager's perspective" Friday, June 26. 2009
From the list of tutorials on Day One of DPC 2009, I chose to sit-in on Stefan Esser's Security Crash Course with the idea that it would be a good opportunity for a review. When he displayed one of his introductory slides about the topics he would be covering, there seemed to be no surprises: input filtering, XSS, CSRF, SQL injection, session management and PHP code inclusion and evaluation -- it was a fairly expected list of all those things in an application that can threaten at one time or another to come back and bite a developer on the back-end (or front-end too for that matter). Even though some of the topics on the list already suggested to me certain known risky situations and how to diffuse them, it didn't matter. I was here, after all, for a review, a reality-check, hoping that certain topics such as PHP code inclusion and evaluation would be made even clearer.
It worked like a charm, although, not immediately, not necessarily in that room on that day. Continue reading "DPC 2009 Day 0 - Stefan Esser's Security Crash Course"
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Tuesday, June 23. 2009
Part of the mandate for the PHP Center for Expertise inside of Ibuildings is an ongoing series of Business Process Re-Engineering projects. The first of these projects, "Estimating Best Practices", was recently completed and released. It contains the collected best practices from estimators inside Ibuildings, as well as input from external experts and published works.
Our estimating team spent two months thinking and discussing how software companies create estimates; we discussed what works and what doesn't. While the final document itself, along with the accompanying workbook, are available internally only, some of what was learned about the meta process of estimating may be interesting to others. Here are four Best Practices that came out of the process that we want to share with everyone. Continue reading "Best Practices in Estimating" Tuesday, June 16. 2009
This year's php|tek conference was hosted by php|architect just outside Chicago in the US in mid-May. I attended this year as a speaker delivering a number of sessions, and was also able to attend the some of the other sessions on offer at the event. There were some particular highlights of the week.
The first session of the main conference was the opening keynote, "The Future of PHP 6" by Andrei Zmievski. The talk was great but will be forever remembered for Andrei's t-shirt which read "I ? Unicode". With the conference in full swing, we moved on to some of the more technical sessions. Continue reading "Sessions at php|tek 2009" Thursday, May 7. 2009
The PHP TestFest is a gathering by PHP enthusiasts that get together to write automated test cases for PHP. These test cases help prevent future incompatibilities and bugs in PHP. The event has grown global over the course of the years, with user groups everywhere in the world participating.
Continue reading "TestFest 2009" Tuesday, May 5. 2009
PHP is at an inflection point. We are at a once in a lifetime place where several factors are coming together to help boost the profile of PHP up and above the "scripting language" label and into a serious tool for enterprise development.
Many developers inside the PHP community have looked at PHP as serious development tool for years. Major companies like Digg, Expedia, Yahoo and facebook are trotted out during every discussion of PHP to prove what a useful tool PHP is. However, companies like Ladbrokes, Channel Five, Fiat, Panasonic, and the BBC, all use PHP as not only their backend glue language but for serious, enterprise level, transactional workflow systems. In a growing number of large development shops, PHP has gone from "why" to "why not". Continue reading "PHP is NOW" Thursday, April 23. 2009
About 2 months ago, Erik Snoeijs posted a story about the NU.nl backend, a project we did for the largest news site in The Netherlands.
Back then, we already planned to write a follow up post about the front-end technology. Where the back-end focuses on flexibility and ease of use for the Nu.nl editors, the front-end focuses completely on very high performance and getting the news out to the site's readers as quickly as possible. Continue reading "Surviving a plane crash - The nu.nl case study" Tuesday, March 31. 2009
Just a short post to let you know that the tickets for this year's Dutch PHP Conference are on sale as of today.
Get your tickets here. There's currently an early bird discount, so book your tickets now before the prices are raised. With 2 days of conference plus a tutorial day, and many excellent speakers from all over the world, this year's event is going to be the best Dutch PHP Conference we've had so far. Don't miss it! Tuesday, March 3. 2009
I am delighted to announce our new public UK training schedule for spring 2009. You can take a peek here at the upcoming PHP courses that Ibuildings are offering.
The differentiating factor of Ibuildings PHP training is that you get the benefit of being trained by a real-life software engineer, so you can delve deeply into areas that you normally wouldn't be able to tackle (time permitting), or perhaps discuss your real-life application issue over lunch. If you're interested in one of the training courses, contact us. We are always interested to hear from the PHP community what needs there are, especially for advanced PHP training. If you have a topic you think we should deliver training on, feel free to comment below. Monday, February 16. 2009
A little over 2 years ago we started our company blog, mainly to share our experiences and show off cool stuff we were doing. By now, it has become the most popular area of our website, and looking back I can see we have had a nice mix of technical articles, case studies, reviews, conference reports and 'php in business' posts.
Today, we are moving another step forward. Last year we announced our PHP Centre of Expertise to promote the professional use of PHP. One of the first visible results of the PCE initiative is our new techPortal. Continue reading "The launch of techPortal"
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