DPC 2008, the votes go to: what's new in PHP6

Tue, 18 Mar 2008 18:35:30 +0100

After announcing Derick Rethans as the most requested PHP Guru in the Call for Ideas for the Dutch PHP Conference, we are now announcing the most requested topic: PHP6 (and, if not released by the time of the conference, the upcoming PHP 5.3 release).

The talk will not only cover the new features of PHP6, but also addresses what you can do in your apps right now, to smooth the transition later. In other words, tips 'n tricks to keep your code 'portable' across versions.

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How we build scalable web applications

Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:54:00 +0100

There is lots of information available on how to build scalable web applications. I thought it would be nice to share a little bit of how we at Ibuildings build scalable web applications.

Often we're dealing with large applications that need to scale very well. Sometimes this is due to high load/traffic but, it can also be that the web application is used in many ways. For example an application can have a heavily used CRM like back-end system. The front-end website uses the same system to publish information from it. You can imagine that if you didn't set it up correctly and the load increases on the back-end, it affects the website users and vice versa.

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Zend.com WDE powered!

Thu, 22 Nov 2007 09:34:00 +0100

Last weekend the new Zend.com website was launched. I am very proud to say that it is WDE powered! WDE (Web Development Environment) is our content management system, based on our business framework ATK.

From our partnership with Zend we learned that Zend was searching for a new CMS. Soon after a demo of WDE a couple of the Zend.com team members came over and we had a nice week of training, discussion and thinking. After this week Ibuildings advised Zend on the implementation of new functionality in WDE.
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Running PHP on Windows

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 14:53:53 +0100

This weekend I did a short research for a consultancy job in the UK regarding PHP on Windows. Since I am more of a Linux guy I don't follow the Windows developments on a daily basis. It seems like a coincidence: Microsoft released their fastCGI implementation just a couple of days ago. The announcement is covered on many sites including IIS.net and Devzone.

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Zend/PHP Conference

Wed, 10 Oct 2007 18:50:55 +0200

Together with Ivo Jansch, our CTO at Ibuildings, we are attending the Zend/PHP Conference in San Francisco this week. This is the third annual Zend/PHP conference and as the largest gathering of PHP users, it shows the phenomenal growth of PHP as the choice for modern applications. Harold Goldberg, the CEO of Zend Technologies looked at some numbers during his keynote talk. Right now, 32% of internet applications are build with PHP by over 4.5 million PHP developers, which makes it the most popular language for internet applications out there.
But there's also a new trend looking forward; More and more companies will be exposing their back-end information systems to answer customer demand. PHP is the flexible choice for these modernizations into powerful state-of-the-art web applications.

So the question is why not write your next business-critical application in PHP? With many showcases of companies utilizing the power behind PHP, this conference certainly shows that PHP is going to play a leading role in the coming years in the Internet community.

Tom

How to use imagegrabscreen and imagegrabwindow with WAMP5

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 09:27:54 +0200

Last week I read about the functions imagegrabscreen() and imagegrabwindow(). They were added to gdlib and are available in PHP since version 5.2.2. Because I got excited I installed the latest version of WAMP5 on my windows XP laptop (the functions are windows-only) and started typing. The examples on php.net however will not work at first when you use WAMP out-of-the-box, so this is a little how-to document about how to get it working.
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PHP for IBM i5: how to control your library list from PHP

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 09:29:00 +0200

When building applications on an IBM i-series platform you probably want to use the DB2 database. Zend Core for IBM i-series supports this database since the db2_ functions were introduced. These functions allow you to use the DB2 database like you would any other database, but lacks the support for manipulating librarylists. It turns out this is possible by using the i5_ functions. Below an example of how to do so.
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