http://james.mcglinn.org Web developer and entrepreneur Wed, 31 Mar 2010 12:33:51 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en This train of thought started as an email response to a post by Nat Torkington last month, in which he lamented the shortage of experienced and capable business staff in New Zealand - the "deal-making CEOs and well-networked bizdev gurus." I'd been thinking and talking with others along the same lines ... http://james.mcglinn.org/2008/10/nzs-business-talent-crisis/ 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 ... http://james.mcglinn.org/2007/10/zend-studio-neon-beta/ 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 ... http://james.mcglinn.org/2007/10/delicious-switches-to-symfony/ We've added RSS feeds for your favourites on Eventfinder, which makes it easy to add a list of events you're going to be attending to your website or blog. Kudos to Stuart Maxwell for suggesting this one, it's brilliant. For those with a recent version of WordPress and a widget-capable ... http://james.mcglinn.org/2007/08/eventfinder-favourites-on-your-blog/ 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 - ... http://james.mcglinn.org/2007/08/news-update/ 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 ... http://james.mcglinn.org/2007/03/nz-php-users-group-reaches-300-members/ 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 ... http://james.mcglinn.org/2007/01/php5-certified/ 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 ... http://james.mcglinn.org/2007/01/wdanz-conference/ 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 ... http://james.mcglinn.org/2006/11/ms-and-zend-form-long-term-partnership/ 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 ... http://james.mcglinn.org/2006/10/zend-framework-project-releases-gdata-component/