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Jan
9
WDANZ Conference
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I’ll be speaking on E-Commerce at the WDANZ Conference in Christchurch next month. They’ve given me a slot on the first day at 12:30 between a security talk by John Martin from IBM, and Location Based Mapping with John Clegg from ProjectX (Zoom-In). I’m looking forward to hearing both of those too so [...]
Nov
1
MS and Zend form long-term partnership
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In a move that’s come as a surprise to many people, Zend and Microsoft today announced they’ve formed a long-term partnership to improve the performance, reliability and stability of PHP on Windows Server platforms.
The official media release is here and Reuters have more reporting here.
Hopefully this will just mean better deployment options for PHP in [...]
Oct
31
The Zend Framework Project this morning released their new GData Client Library for interfacing with the Google Data APIs.
The Google data APIs (GData) provide a protocol for reading and writing data on the web. GData can use either Atom or RSS and has a feed-publishing system built on Atom with some custom extensions for [...]
Oct
29
The release of the new Yahoo! Bookmarks beta has been on a number of news portals lately. Yahoo! Bookmarks has 20 million users, and is available in 12 languages (and counting). But the exciting news about the new Yahoo! Bookmarks is that it was built with Symfony.
Michael Salisbury, Technical Yahoo!, explained the reasons why Symfony [...]
Oct
27
Easy DPS Payment Express interface for PHP
Filed Under DPS, PHP, Security | 5 Comments
DPS are New Zealand’s biggest player in the payments gateway business. They’ve been around for as long as I’ve been building E-Commerce sites which must be at least 6 or 7 years now.
Their main service for handling card processing on sites is Payment Express, or PX. It’s been through a number of different [...]