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According to this post over on the C7Y site (php|architect’s community site), their php|tek 2008 conference has already reached the forty percent sold mark on seats for the event.

Seat sales for our php|tek 2008 conference, which will take place in Chicago, IL, between May 20th and 23rd, are starting to pick up, and over 40% of all available spots have already been reserved.

You can signup on their conference website as well as get all of the details on the four day event including the speaker schedule, hotel and travel information - even a Boss Help section to help with convincing your local PHB.

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I’ve talked with a lot of PHP developers who are looking to jump from riding elephants to taming snakes. The jump is obvious for those of us who like interpreted languages but want the feel of a really well designed language instead of getting glue all over ourselves. I thought it was a relatively small trend, but now it seems php|archtitect has jumped ship too. First it was their announcement of Python Magazine, now the January issue of php|arch supposedly contains exclusively Python articles!

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Yesterday, php.net announced TestFest 2008!

The PHP-QA team would like to announce the TestFest for the month of May 2008. The TestFest is an event that aims at improving the code coverage of the test suite for the PHP language itself. As part of this event, local User Groups (UG) are invited to join the TestFest. These UGs can meet physically or come together virtually. The point however is that people network to learn together. Aside from being an opportunity for all of you to make friends with like minded people in your (virtual) community, it also will hopefully reduce the work load for the PHP.net mentors.

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Posted by Danny Dover

For those of you who don’t know me yet, my name is Danny and I am SEOmoz’s intern. I have spent the last several weeks reading and categorizing all the blog posts written over the years on this site. It has been quite the project and has let me really experience how this company and the SEO industry as a whole have evolved. I, like the other mozzers, am a stat junkie and kept notes on notable trends, stats, and general quality as I read through the posts. Below I have listed what I believe to be the most successful, funny, and best posts ever written on SEOmoz. Enjoy!
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On his blog, Andreas Gohr has posted about various charting applications on the web (in his search for a way to show off the stats for DokuWiki) and looking specifically at the Google Charts.

Because such [popularity] data is much better to comprehend when accompanied by some nice graphs, I had a look at the Google Chart API today.

He also mentions three wrapper libraries that help your apps interface with the Charts API. Of course, he also includes some graphs of the popularity stats showing things like web server usage and PHP versions.

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Hasin Hayder has posted another in his series looking at the relatively young PHP framework, orchid. HE digs a little deeper this time and looks at the Model functionality it has.

As promised, orchid comes with real flexibility which lets you design your application in less time. […] In this installment, we will learn how to achieve maximum speed and benefit by using the built-in model library of orchid with a toppings of the active record library.

He shows how to connect to the database backend through the framework (along with some dos and don’ts) and how to pull this connection into the Model functionality. His example inserts information into a “comics” table and shows how to pull it back out (with a call to the find() method).

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Zend Technologies is looking for some more PHP rockstars.. If you are interested let me know (john at end dot com). If you aren’t interest but know some *good* recruiters in the SF Bay Area for this sort of thing I’d appreciate it as well!!

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As mentioned by Richard Heyes, there’s a new blog post from Larry Garfield talking about the death of PHP4, how the community has responded to it and some of his own thoughts on the matter.

The problem is the source for that “everyone” [is still using PHP4] claim. The most widely referenced stats are the Nexen stats, and according to them 70%+ of the world still uses PHP 4. Horrors!

He takes a closer look at the stats and comes up with a slightly different sort of conclusion that the stats can’t really measure. They can show the server-based usage measurements of PHP4 vs PHP5, but they can’t show the number of developers behind each of them.

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Zend Certification is an important step for a PHP developer. It is a very good chance to evaluate your skills, show your experience to your co-workers and potential customers. Certification benefits (briefly described at http://www.zend.com/en/services/certification/) keep up interest in everything about the certification: what it is, how to prepare for it, how to pass it, what happens after you pass it.

The primary information source about the certification is the Zend.com site, especially its Certification service section.

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