PHP Innovation Award

PHP Innovation Award Winner of 2012 - Lately in PHP podcast episode 33

Thu, 07 Mar 2013 17:56:24 GMT

PHP Innovation Award Winner of 2012 - Lately in PHP podcast episode 33

By Manuel Lemos

The PHP Programming Innovation Award Winner of 2012 was announced. An interview with the winner, Karl Holz from Canada, was one of the main topics of the episode 33 of the Lately in PHP podcast conducted by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert.

They also discussed the usual batch of PHP topics of interest like Zend Optimizer+ source code that was released, the PHP 5.5 feature freeze and roadmap, as well an article that compares PHP to an Hobbit, as well other languages to Lord Of The Rings story characters.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the podcast video, or read the transcript to learn about these and other interesting PHP topics.

Do PHP Developers Need and will Adopt PHP Coding Standards? - Lately in PHP podcast episode 24

Mon, 04 Jun 2012 18:07:43 GMT

Do PHP Developers Need and will Adopt PHP Coding Standards? - Lately in PHP podcast episode 24

By Manuel Lemos

The PHP Standards Group is trying to push new specifications for PHP coding standards. Whether PHP developers need and will adopt these standards was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in episode 24 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

They also discussed the complaints of Linus Torvalds on the limitations of GitHub handling Git pull requests and whether that will affect the processing of pull requests to the PHP core project.

Other topics include the latest PHP 5.4.3 and 5.3.13 bug fixes, the chart of PHP releases over time, and the JavaScript Innovation Award initiative that is about to start and repeat the success of the PHP Innovation Award.

Listen to the podcast, watch the video recording or read the transcript to learn about these and other interesting PHP related topics here.

JavaScript Innovation Award Challenge

Mon, 21 May 2012 18:01:38 GMT

JavaScript Innovation Award Challenge

By Manuel Lemos

The JSClasses site is going to replicate the success of the PHP Programming Innovation Award organized by the PHPClasses site in order to provide more recognition and prizes to developers that submit innovative components.

The JavaScript Innovation Award is not yet started but can start soon with your help.

Read this note to learn more about this new award and what you can do to help getting it started sooner rather than later.

Will PHP development Migration to Git improve non-Core Developer Contribution Interest? - Lately in PHP podcast episode 22

Thu, 05 Apr 2012 19:32:47 GMT

Will PHP development Migration to Git improve non-Core Developer Contribution Interest? - Lately in PHP podcast episode 22

By Manuel Lemos

The PHP development migrated to a Git repository. With the integration with GitHub it became easier for non-core developers to submit pull requests with bug fixes and new feature improvements to PHP.

Will this new possibility make it PHP core developers accept more contributions from non-core developers? That is one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert in the episode 22 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

They also talk about the upcoming PHP 5.4.1 release, as well about the repercussion of a recently article that aims to encourage more PHP developers to embrace Object Oriented Programming, and the top packages of the PHP Programming Innovation Award edition of 2011.

Listen to the podcast or read the transcript to learn more about this and other interesting PHP topics.

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 really loosing popularity for Python and C#? PHP Innovation Award of 2010 - Lately in PHP podcast episode 9

Mon, 28 Feb 2011 16:58:53 GMT

Is PHP really loosing popularity for Python and C#? PHP Innovation Award of 2010 - Lately in PHP podcast episode 9

By Manuel Lemos

The winner of the PHP Programming Innovation Award was announced. Rochak Chauhan was invited for an interview to talk about his award on episode 9 of the Lately in PHP podcast, hosted as usual by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert.

The three also discuss the latest developments of the TIOBE programming languages ranking. The latest numbers seem to suggest that languages like Python and C# are gaining popularity supposedly at the expense of an apparent loss of interest on PHP.

PHP Innovation Award 2009 results

Fri, 19 Feb 2010 02:04:58 GMT

PHP Innovation Award 2009 results

By Manuel Lemos

The results of the PHP Programming Innovation Award of 2009 were computed and the winner is Sam Shull.

This article presents an interview with Sam, so we may learn more about him and his work with PHP.

PHP Zeitgeist: What PHP developers have been looking for in the last decade?

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 16:38:38 GMT

PHP Zeitgeist: What PHP developers have been looking for in the last decade?

By Manuel Lemos

PHP Zeitgeist is a new initiative to show the trends on what PHP developers have been looking for year after year. It is somewhat similar to Google End of the Year Zeitgeist.

This article explains in detail what is this initiative and how you can take advantage of the information that it provide to keep up with the latest trends in the PHP development market and improve your career.

PHP in Arabic

Mon, 16 Nov 2009 05:12:08 GMT

PHP in Arabic

By Manuel Lemos

The use of Arabic in Web sites has been growing in a significant way in the latest years.

This is an idiom that requires special care due to the nature of its writing.

This article presents an interview with Khaled Al-Shamaa, the leader of Ar-PHP, a project that aims to simplify the lives of developers that want to build Arabic sites using PHP.

Winner of PHP Programming Innovation Award of the year announced

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 06:04:23 GMT

Winner of PHP Programming Innovation Award of the year announced

By Manuel Lemos

The winner of PHP Programming Innovation Award of 2008 was announced.

Now there is also a ranking of the innovation award of all time that considers the score of each author since the award started in 2004. There are also new rankings of author countries for each year and all time.

Cesar Rodas won the 2008 award. Here he gives an interview telling about many good things that happened since he won last year. He also shares his secrets to contribute so many innovative classes appreciated by the users that voted on them and made possible to win the 2008 award.