web application development

On tuesday and wenesday last week, the 2011 version of the Plat_Forms contest took place. It was organized by FU Berlin, OSBF and publishing company Heise.

16 Teams of 4 (+1) different web application development platforms were given the same requirements and two days of time to develop as much as possible.

I was again amazed by the great atmosphere and the cooperative attitude of the teams. This year, there were teams of PHP, Perl, Java, Ruby and one Javascript-On-The-Server Team.

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Site News: A Look Back at 2009 in PHP
• Developr.com: Do Frameworks Fail?

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Ken Guest's Blog: Book Review: jQuery 1.3 with PHP
• PHPBuilder.com: Build an MVC Framework with PHP
• Konstantin's Blog: The Twitter OAuth PHP Class Gets Even Better
• IBuildings Blog: 137 CMS Systems
• NETTUTS.com: How to Build a Shopping Cart using CodeIgniter and jQuery

One of my main concerns with PHP has been the lack of ecosystem.

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Developer.com: Managing File Uploads with the Zend Framework
• NETTUTS.com: Book Review: Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development
• PHPFreaks.com: Template based document generation using LiveDocx and Zend Framework
• Phil Sturgeon's Blog: CodeIgniter "2.0": Rumours, facts and requests

On the dynaTrace blog there's a recent post with a few things they've learned about web application development from some of the major companies out there including Zappos and Monster.

Marco Tabini has posted some of his thoughts about web application development, specifically in dealing with the creation of APIs for your site.

Soluo is looking for an intern in PHP Web Programming to join the development team in Paris.

The focus of this internship will be the core developement of a SaaS Web Application. The intern should start by April 2010.

You will be involved in Web Application design and development, third-party integrations (Social Networks such as Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook) via Web Services / API / XML, development and integration of reporting tools, design and implementation of SQL databases.

New on his blog, Federico Cargnelutti has posted his own review of a new book from Packt publishing - "Zend Framework 1.8 Web Application Development".

Developer.com: "Key to Google's Web application development effort is its Google Web Tools (GWT) applications, which became open source in 2006.

This week, Google debuted GWT 2.0, which provides new developer workflow improvements as well performance enhancements."