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John Conde has shared some of his recent experience when he began job hunting as a PHP developer.

If his experience is any indication, it's clearly a good time to be a (qualified) PHP developer.

On Reddit.com there's a good discussion going on to answer the question "What non-PHP stuff should a PHP developer know?"

I was looking at job description for a web developer, and one of the big responsibilities was database maintenance.

[...] And along those lines, what other skills would be useful for a PHP developer to have that aren't directly PHP-based?

Suggestions so far include things like:

EngineYard, a company that recently merged with the PHP platform as a service provider Orchestra.io, has a new live panel podcast about the Future of PHP, specifically involving PEAR and Pyrus.

Rafael Dohms has posted a review of a book from Ivo Jansch and Vito Chin - "PHP Development in the Cloud", a guide to some considerations about running PHP applications on cloud-based platforms.

The companion website to PHP Development in the Cloud is at cloudphp.net.

The website contains the source code of examples in the book and other related resources.

There's also a list of PHP PaaS that might be useful if you're looking at migrating to these services.
Also, thanks to Jason and Rafael for the great reviews:

"The book provides an excellent overview of what the cloud is and isn't, and then how PHP developers can leverage it in our applications."

Cloud computing is finally reaching a point of maturity and leaving its early “hype” years behind. Ivo and Vito do a very good job of bringing the topic into a PHP developer’s world in a very concise and objective manner, without leaving important platforms and concepts behind.

RubySource.com has posted another in their "confessions of a converted PHP developer" series (more here) with a new article comparing namespacing between the two languages.

As the first part of a series, Tom Jowitt has posted this introduction to setting up a brand new development environment with some of the basic tools any PHP developer should need.

phpbuilder: Every PHP developer should strive for highly optimized code. These six tips you can boost your PHP performance.

In his (Python) blog today Casey reminds the developer community about a handy tool that the developers at Facebook have made available to make a PHP coder's life easier - phpsh.