hello world

Ubuntu Manual: "Last time we made a basic "hello world" chrome extension. This time we will be going to the innards of a real world Google Chrome extension to see how things will work in real time."

We had the PHP Content Repository workshop at Liip in Zurich earlier this week.

During the time we also discussed some other code reuse, like utilizing parts of the Symfony2 framework in Midgard.

The Liip guys mentioned Silex, a cool micro-framework written on top of Symfony2.

Learning how to program a computer to display the words 'Hello World' once may have excited students, but that hoary chestnut of a lesson doesn't cut it in a world of videogames, smartphones and Twitter.

Steve Francia has posted a follow-up to his "On Symfony2" post to his blog today with an introduction to the framework that helps you get everything installed you'll need.

On the SitePoint PHP blog today there's a new post showing how how to make your own "short code" system that allows for custom function execution.

Ahmed Shreef has a recent post to his blog about an issue he had converting UTF-16 strings over to UTF-8 with the iconv functionality in PHP.

Specifically, he ended up with "rubbish unreadable characters" after the conversion.

In a recent post to his site Alex Bilbie shows how to integrate CouchDB and CodeIgniter to make a simple NoSQL-based application.

He helps you through each step of the way - from installation down to working code.

For anyone wanting to take those first steps into running PHP applications on an Azure platform, you should check out a new post from Josh Holmes.

He describes the process of getting it working from a command-line approach.

On the PHPClasses blog there's a new post looking at using the Gearman framework with PHP via a PECL extension.

Brandon Savage has written a sort of letter to those developers new to the PHP community and to the language to encourage them to not worry, that things will come in time.