Jonathan Maron LiveDocx is a Zend Framework package that implements a new approach to generate PDF documents in PHP. It combines structured data passed by a PHP script with a template created in a word processor. It is the same concept as mail merge. The resulting document can be saved as a PDF, as ...
Manuel Lemos MySQL 5.6 GA version is finally available for download. One of its main features is the new NoSQL interface to access tables much faster than using SQL via a connection compatible of memcached. MySQL 5.6 speed improvements and how it affects PHP applications was one of the main topics ...
Manuel Lemos Phalanger is compiler that generates .NET assemblies from PHP code, so it runs in a .NET virtual machine. The latest benchmarks seem to indicate that PHP applications compiled by Phalanger execute noticeably faster than when they are executed by the official PHP implementation based on ...
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 ...
Manuel Lemos 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 ...
Manuel Lemos With the inclusion of Zend Optimizer+ extension in PHP 5.5, the need for better documentation of PHP internals became more evident, so PHP contributors can write extensions that take the most of the core PHP features. That is one of the topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert ...
Manuel Lemos In this episode Chris Cornutt talks about his project sites PHPDeveloper.org PHP news site and Joind.in for promoting interaction between speakers and attendants of PHP conferences and other types of events. A list of other worth listening podcasts for PHP developers was covered. An interesting ...
Manuel Lemos With the release of Facebook HipHop PHP compiler, the matters of performance of PHP compilers and runtime engines gained special relevance. This article presents a performance comparison of between different PHP compilers and runtime PHP execution engines, so we can evaluate what is the ...
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 ...
Manuel Lemos On the episode 5 of the Lately in PHP podcast, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert have as guest Jason Roberts, developer of the upcoming Web based application generation AppIgnite. They have discussed several topics of interest like PHP code generation tools for speeding up PHP development ...