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Oct
10
Zend Studio “Neon” Beta
Filed Under PHP, Zend | 4 Comments
Like Marc Gear, I also got the email from Zend this morning announcing the new Zend Studio beta, codenamed Neon and based on Eclipse (the open-source Java IDE originally created by IBM). I’ve been a Zend Studio Professional user for a couple of years and spend probably three-quarters of my computer time using the [...]
Oct
3
Del.icio.us switches to Symfony
Filed Under PHP, Symfony | 6 Comments
The preview of the new version of hugely popular web 2.0 social bookmarking site del.icio.us has been available (to invited users) for a few weeks now. In the news this morning Yahoo! have confirmed that del.icio.us was rebuilt using the Symfony framework. From the announcement on the Symfony website:
Of course, Yahoo! extended and [...]
Aug
3
News Update
Filed Under Eventfinder, PHP | Leave a Comment
As Sid points out, I’ve been away from here far too long. Hopefully this marks a (semi-permanent) return to blogging! First up we launched social networking on Eventfinder (the Symfony site I’ve been working on full time since Nerds Inc) last week and it’s really taken off - traffic stats are up 20% [...]
Mar
22
3 years and 10 months ago - back in May of 2003 - I met with one of my PHP development clients Stephen Thoms at Byzantium cafe in Ponsonby, and we decided to start a user group for PHP developers in Auckland and around New Zealand. I left that meeting and set up a [...]
Jan
19
PHP5 Certified
Filed Under PHP, Zend | 6 Comments
I finally went out this morning and sat the Zend PHP5 exam (and passed!). It seemed a great deal easier than the original ZCE exam was… but then again that was 2004 and I’ve done a bit more programming since then
I thought that the new exam was less obscure than the PHP4 [...]