php developers

Since becoming freelance 18 months ago, I've taught a number of courses at my excellent local tech training centre, NTI Leeds.

Heise and the university of Berlin just announced the next iteration of the Plat_Forms programming contest.

This time, the task all teams need to implement will be more "cloudy", not that frontend-heavy. Hopefully, PHP will perform better than in 2011 this time.

If you have a team of 3 PHP developers and if you think you can compete with Ruby and Java: registration is open!

Kurt Payne has a new post to his blog showing how you can unit test your process forking in your PHP application (pcntl).

On the PHPClasses.org blog there's a new post with a "zeitgeist" they've generated from statistics on the site (such as search queries and overall popularity of packages).

PHP Zeitgeist 2011 By Manuel Lemos The PHP Zeitgeist is an initiative that allows us to understand what were some of the main new trends and concerns of the PHP developers in the past year.

Read this article to learn about what new things PHP developers have been searching more in 2011 and what are their needs that probably still need to be fulfilled.

In the first part of this post I introduced Composer & Packagist.

If you are not familiar with them please read part 1 first.

Impact

In this second part I would like to talk about a few things Composer could do for you, and the PHP community at large, once it is broadly adopted.

As was mentioned by Patrick Schwisow the Lake County, Illinois/Kenosha County, Wisconsin area has a new PHP user group - the Lake / Kenosha County PHP Users Group.

In a new post to his blog, Michelangelo van Dam starts off a series looking at Windows Azure for PHP developer, an introduction to the service and what sorts of features it has to offer.

I’ve been working on developer-facing software and SDKs in PHP for nearly a decade, and through the experience of supporting these developers, I’ve learned something interesting about the PHP community at-large.

The majority of PHP developers have a very good understanding of native types (e.g., strings, arrays, integers, booleans).

Since they’re the lowest common denominators of the PHP language, it’s generally pretty easy for developers to understand these types.

php|architect has officially announced their php|tek conference for 2012 and have opened their Call for Papers: