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PHP Zeitgeist 2012 events

Thu, 03 Jan 2013 20:41:04 GMT

PHP Zeitgeist 2012 events

By Manuel Lemos

2012 was yet another great year for PHP and its community.

One way to see what were the main concerns of the PHP community is to analyze the PHP Zeitgeist. This is an initiative that lets you see what were the main topics about the things PHP developers have been searching in the past year.

Read this article to learn about the PHP Zeitgeist top searches just published in the PHP Classes site, as well look back at other important developments in this PHP community site.

Becoming a PHP Master (Part 1)

Fri, 30 Nov 2012 00:16:51 GMT

Becoming a PHP Master (Part 1)

By Manuel Lemos

The PHP Classes site is now launching a new feature that will make your participation in the site more fun and rewarding.

It is a new system of missions and levels that you can engage and gain more feedback and recognition for your participation in the site as PHP developer.

Read this article and watch the included demonstration video to learn how it works and start enjoying now.

The 7 Main Optimizations of PHP 5.4 - Lately in PHP podcast episode 25

Wed, 04 Jul 2012 18:30:25 GMT

The 7 Main Optimizations of PHP 5.4 - Lately in PHP podcast episode 25

By Manuel Lemos

The PHP 5.4 includes 7 main optimizations that made PHP work more efficiently in terms of the speed and memory usage efficiency.

That is the main topic discussed in episode 25 of the Lately in PHP podcast on which Manuel Lemos received Gustavo Lopes, a PHP core developer.

Listen to the podcast, watch the podcast video or read the transcript to learn more about these and other interesting PHP topics discussed on this episode.

Share the Best PHP Content on Social Networks

Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:22:14 GMT

Share the Best PHP Content on Social Networks

By Manuel Lemos

The PHP Classes site just made 13 years of age in June 24. Coincidentally, just these days the site reached 1.1 million registered users.

On this anniversary a new feature was released to make it easier for you to automatically share the best content of the site in social networks.

Read this article to learn how this automatic sharing feature works and how you can get more recognition by raising in the friends of the site ranking.

PHP Programming Innovation Award Winner of 2011

Wed, 28 Mar 2012 20:48:05 GMT

PHP Programming Innovation Award Winner of 2011

By Manuel Lemos

Richard Keizer from the Netherlands is the winner of the PHP Programming Innovation Award winner of the 2011 edition.

Despite Richard has been very busy with his own projects, he finally made time to give an interview about his participation in the award, as well about other nominated classes of other authors that he thinks are worth mentioning.

Richard also discusses a few very interesting features that he would like to see in the PHP Classes site to make it more useful for developers that submit nice contributions to the site and users that benefit from them.

Read this article to learn more about Richard work and his great ideas to make PHP Classes an even better PHP community site.

Is PHP Source Quality really Good or is it still Insecure? - Lately in PHP podcast episode 21

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 14:17:33 GMT

Is PHP Source Quality really Good or is it still Insecure? - Lately in PHP podcast episode 21

By Manuel Lemos

A study from Coverity claims that the source code of Open Source projects such as PHP has a low defect rate.

Meanwhile, a few weeks ago, the security expert Stefan Esser claims that PHP source security bug prevention has a lot to be desired because PHP core developers do not have the habit of using source code auditing tools to prevent security bugs.

The matter of the PHP source code quality and security bug prevention was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert in episode 21 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

Among other interesting topics, they also discuss the new features of Apache 2.4 and whether it is already possible for PHP sites to take advantage of this new Apache release.

Listen to the podcast now or read the transcript to learn about these and other interesting PHP related topics.

Good Friends Bring More Friends to Make the Site Better

Tue, 28 Feb 2012 18:19:23 GMT

Good Friends Bring More Friends to Make the Site Better

By Manuel Lemos

Since 2002 the PHPClasses site has a feature that allows giving credit to friends of the site that bring more new users to the site.

This feature has been enhanced and now it is easier to lead more new users to the site and get even more recognition for that.

Read this article to learn how to take advantage of the new features and help making the site even better with the help of new contributors that you may bring to the site.

Learn also how to make other suggestions to improve the site further.

PHP Zeitgeist 2011

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 17:54:57 GMT

PHP Zeitgeist 2011

By Manuel Lemos

The PHP Zeitgeist is an initiative that allows us to understand what were some of the main new trends and concerns of the PHP developers in the past year.

Read this article to learn about what new things PHP developers have been searching more in 2011 and what are their needs that probably still need to be fulfilled.

The Debate of Making PHP Faster using a JIT Compiler - Lately in PHP podcast episode 19

Thu, 05 Jan 2012 17:10:35 GMT

The Debate of Making PHP Faster using a JIT Compiler - Lately in PHP podcast episode 19

By Manuel Lemos

The official PHP implementation is evolving too slowly, while alternative implementations like Phalanger and Facebook HipHop can run PHP faster thanks to the use of JIT compiler engines.

JIT compilation was the main topic of the episode 19 of the Lately in PHP podcast presented by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert who received as guests Miloslav Beno of the Phalanger team and Nuno Lopes of the PECL LLVM project to discuss this and other interesting topics of the PHP scene.

They also made a brief retrospective of what happened in the PHP world in 2011 and what they expect for 2012.

Listen to the podcast or read the transcript here.

Encouraging the Authors to Do Better

Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:37:31 GMT

Encouraging the Authors to Do Better

By Manuel Lemos

The site just launched a new feature that hopefully will encourage the authors that contribute to the site to do better and eventually get more feedback and recognition from the users that take advantage of their work.

It is basically a personalized report message that is sent by e-mail regularly with information about how each author is doing, as well insights that give them ideas on how they can do better.

Read this article to learn more about this initiative as well others there were implemented this year to make this a better site for authors and users that participate in it.