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Tuesday 05 January 2010, 00:09
2009 just ended, and since we've only just commenced work in 2010, there's still time to look back at 2009 and see what events have shaped the way we work with PHP and what happened in the general PHP ecosystem. PHPdeveloper.org has a nice overview from a community perspective. I'll cover some community aspects briefly as well, but will focus on the broader PHP ecosystem, including its adoption in the enterprise and industry participation... read more »
Disruptive events and information flow
Monday 21 December 2009, 08:20
This weekend The Netherlands (and many other countries too, but for the purpose of example I'll stick to NL) experienced something that happens only every few years. We had up to 25 centimeters of snow, which is unusual for us, so it disrupts life significantly. On sunday, buses and trains were canceled, destinations became unreachable, and at Schiphol airport alone, over 700 people had to spent the night because it was impossible to get anywhere.
Snow continued to fall Sunday ... read more »
Snow continued to fall Sunday ... read more »
137 CMS Systems
Thursday 17 December 2009, 14:48
At the moment, Wikipedia's list of content management systems features 137 unique CMS products. 59 of these are written in PHP.
And that's only the ones that Wikipedia finds 'notable', which means these are the ones that have significant usage or large enough communities to be mentioned. There's at least twice the amount that aren't notable, and if we count all the CMS systems that many web developme... read more »
And that's only the ones that Wikipedia finds 'notable', which means these are the ones that have significant usage or large enough communities to be mentioned. There's at least twice the amount that aren't notable, and if we count all the CMS systems that many web developme... read more »
New white paper: Introducing Service APIs
Thursday 10 December 2009, 10:35
Every company starts with a single website or web application, but as a company's online presence grows, many different applications and sites are deployed. With a traditional approach of treating each of these applications as separate solutions, a number of problems occur:
Service APIs can help you reuse a set of common functionality, which is implemented ... read more »
- Inconsistencies in common functionality
- High maintenance costs
- Long time-to-market
Service APIs can help you reuse a set of common functionality, which is implemented ... read more »
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