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78. PHP certification: is it worth it?

Posted on: 2008-05-27

This post focus on the question of whether it is useful for PHP developers to obtain a certification.

Maurício Garcia is a reputed PHP professional from Brazil that gives presentations about Zend PHP certification that help people to decide whether is it really worth taking the exam and how to get prepared to take it.

Maurício has given an interview that answers many questions that may help PHP developers decide whether it is worth obtain the PHP Zend certification and to prepare yourself to pass the exam. The complete interview is published in this article.

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77. Google App Engine needs PHP support

Posted on: 2008-04-11

Google App Engine was launched but it does not support PHP. This article presents some ideas that can help Google adding PHP support sooner rather than later.

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76. Top 10 tips to get better PHP jobs

Posted on: 2008-03-31

This article presents top tips that may help you getting better PHP jobs.

Also related with the quest of getting better PHP jobs, the PHPClasses site is launching a new search engine with the goal to help employers finding PHP professionals by skill.

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75. And the award winner is...

Posted on: 2008-02-21

No, this is not the Oscar winners announcement. It is the announcement of the PHP Programming Award winner of 2007.

Here it is published details about the top ranked authors or 2007, the prizes that they got from the sponsors, and an interview with the winner, so we can know more about him and his work with PHP.

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74. A PHP killer feature - Streams abstraction

Posted on: 2008-01-31

This article explains what are stream handlers and how they simplify PHP developers lives by allowing PHP applications to easily read and write data from containers, like remote Web pages or e-mail messages, as if they were files.

A real world example is presented to demonstrate how you can access messages in a POP3 mailbox and how it can be used to automatically process messages from the site users requesting support.

The article also presents more examples of cool stream handlers classes submitted to the PHPClasses site by several authors.

Unrelated to this topic, the PHPClasses site is announcing the availability of a Twitter activity stream that may be used to keep track in a single place of the submissions like: the latest classes, reviews, blog posts and trackbacks.

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73. Top 10 PHP Programming Innovators of 2007

Posted on: 2007-12-20

The PHP Classes site has introduced a new ranking that aims to distinguish the developers that have submitted to the site the most innovative PHP components in each year.

This article also mentions the latest enhancements to the PHP professionals directory, like the professional profile page access statistics that are now sent also by e-mail.

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72. PHP professionals map gadget and the profile statistics page

Posted on: 2007-11-29

The PHP professionals directory initiative has been enhanced to make it more efficient in its goal to bring together more PHP professionals and businesses willing to hire them.

Now there is a gadget available to provide more exposure to PHP professionals in iGoogle (Google personalized home page), Google Maps, Google Earth or in any other Web site page.

Another new feature is the profile access statistics page. It lets professionals see how many users are checking their profile, visiting their professional home page, or requesting to contact them by e-mail.

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71. Launched the PHP Professionals Directory

Posted on: 2007-11-01

A new resource was just launched to list the PHP professionals available worldwide for hiring.

This initiative is intended to let companies easily find PHP professionals anywhere in the world.

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70. A better package rating system

Posted on: 2007-09-30

The PHP Classes site package rating system was improved to let the users provide better feedback to the package authors.

This post also covers several news of interest like: PHPEdit now available as prize for the innovation award winners; I will be speaking about PHP at Borland/CodeGear Borcon 2007; a new aggregator site about PHP podcasts; and a new wiki about installing applications in PHP and other languages.


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69. 13 rules to optimize your Web site performance

Posted on: 2007-08-31

Everybody wants to squeeze as much performance of their Web applications as possible. Usually this requires skilled professionals to achieve. Fortunately, several performance evaluation tools are now available to make Web site performance tuning a much easier task.

This post discusses tools like YSlow and other techniques to tune your Web servers performance, as well the results of using such tools and techniques in a busy site like PHPClasses.

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