Speaker: Andrei Zmievski
Quick, what do memcache, MogileFS, and Gearman have in common? They are scalable, distributed technologies, and they can also interface with PHP, your ubiquitous Web development language. Digg uses all 3 (and a few more) in its quest for social news domination, and this session will share much of what we’ve learned about them and how they are best utilized with PHP.
Slides for this talk can be found here.
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I've recently been working with SilverStripe, which was relatively new to me, so I got the book. This post is a review of the book "Silverstripe. The Complete Guide to CMS Development" by Ingo Schommer and Steven Broschart; I wanted to share my thoughts about this title.
When I say I'm working with SilverStripe, I mostly get blank looks. Few people have heard of it, even amongst PHP developers; so firstly what is SilverStripe?
I'm delighted to announce the winner of our competition to win a ticket to DPC - congratulations to randomly-selected winner Andreis Mooij!!
A huge thank you to everyone who took the time to enter, we were overwhelmed by both the quality and the quantity of the responses on the post - 89 comments in total!! I do hope that some the other commenters will be able to join us in any case - if you're thinking of coming then do book your tickets soon at http://phpconference.nl/register - Early Bird prices end on April 30th.
In February and March we ran a bug hunt contest. We asked people to download a small application and tell us any issue they found. We promoted the contest at PHPBenelux and PHP UK conferences and it was open to all residents of the EU. We got a large set of responses and, besides being able to determine a winner, we were able to get some interesting analytic data from the contest entries. I will share those later in this post. But first things first...
We had 3 categories:
Zend Studio is a great IDE and we use it a lot at Ibuildings (in addition to NetBeans, PDT and Vim). One of the nice features is the code formatter that helps develop code according to agreed standards, which is useful to keep projects consistent.
One problem we have with the current versions of Zend Studio is that its default Zend Framework formatter is not consistent with the official Zend Framework coding standard. Luckily, that can be easily fixed. Sandy Pleyte, one of our developers, created a formatting file for Zend Studio that does adhere to the formal standard. There might be a few issues here and there but we've found it to work much better than the default one in Zend Studio. Because it might be helpful to others, we're sharing the formatter file with anyone that's interested. Download the file and read on for instructions.
Speaker: Boy Baukema
Like PHP, JavaScript is easy to learn but hard to master.
In this talk these and more comparisons will be drawn between the two languages. The main weaknesses and strengths of JavaScript will be discussed and compared to PHP.
Examples will be given of closures and lambda functions in JavaScript and they will be compared to the implementation of these same features in the upcoming PHP 5.3. And through comparison the speaker will demonstrate that the two languages are quite similar.
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Speaker: Eli White
A constant pariah on web applications is scaling once you become popular. It's not always an easy task (ok, never). This talk will go into depth on a few of the most common techniques for making your website scalable. So that you can leave with enough knowledge to apply this, if needed. Or just to plan ahead so that your future projects don't preclude taking these steps when needed.
Presentation Slides: Habits of Highly Scalable Web Applications
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