Thursday, October 30. 2008Review: PHP5 CMS Framework Development "PHP5 CMS Framework Development", a book written by Martin Brampton, explores how to approach the typical requirements of a PHP5-based Content Management System and underlying framework.After contributing for a while to projects like Joomla! and Mambo, Martin took on the role of a lead developer of Mambo 4.6.1. The six months spent leading the project gave him a good understanding of its functionalities and limitations. Martin left Mambo (before they announced to drop support for PHP4 last September) to write his own CMS and "evolve out of the Mambo history", by taking advantage of PHP5 OO enhancements. The result is Aliro: a CMS, a framework and an extension project with traits and genes of the Mambo family. Aliro code is used throughout the book to support and illustrate his presentation. Continue reading "Review: PHP5 CMS Framework Development" Monday, October 27. 2008Windows Azure and PHP This week I'm at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference (PDC2008) in Los Angeles in sunny California (yup, being a CTO is a tough job!). I was invited to this conference by Microsoft (thanks Bram!) because Microsoft is opening up to the PHP community, and I must say that so far they haven't disappointed me. Read what I've learned about what Microsoft is doing with PHP so far. Continue reading "Windows Azure and PHP"
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Sunday, October 26. 2008Quality People
At Ibuildings we are constantly on the lookout for high quality people, who want to get involved in a variety of complex projects (and maybe some simpler ones). Although quality is hard to define, recently we have not just been looking for a long list of skills and experience, but also candidates who have the potential to play with the big boys, people who feel they can, one day, contribute at the highest level.
This has been an interesting exercise, although frustrating, sorting out the wheat from the (sometimes megalomaniac) chaff. The idea is that we are trying to 'spot' people early in their career, who have the right attitude and capacity for learning. Why am I blogging this? Well, as we are currently a growing business, we need good people NOW. But also, in the longer term, we want to be aware of the good people out there in the community, and to be on mutual radars even if it doesn't look like we need people at that very minute. It seems that on our 'PHP' projects, good Javascript skills are needed more often than not these days, and some of it is extremely complex and demanding. Are you one of those 'people with potential' out there? Speak to us, get on our radar, and one day the timing might be right for us both. Wednesday, October 22. 2008Some thoughts on CouchDB A few weeks ago Jan Lehnardt of CouchDB came by to Ibuildings UK and gave a talk about the project. CouchDB is a database that's designed to be highly scalable, in terms of, well pretty much everything really: the amount of data it can handle, and the number of CPUs the distributed server can efficiently use in parallel, the number of concurrent clients. (Note though that CouchDB sits at version 0.8.1 at the moment, and many of the scalability features either haven't been implemented, or haven't been tested.) What follows is a short description of how CouchDB works, including the unusual MapReduce-powered database query technique, as gleaned from the talk and a few days' worth of playing with it.Continue reading "Some thoughts on CouchDB" Wednesday, October 15. 2008Ibuildings @ the PHPNW conference We're proud to announce that Ibuildings is the premier sponsor of the PHPNW conference that takes place on November 22nd in Manchester in the UK. The conference features speakers such as Derick Rethans and Rob Allen (see the schedule for more speakers), and at 50 GBP it's very good value for money for PHP developers. Continue reading "Ibuildings @ the PHPNW conference" Tuesday, October 14. 2008Future of Web Apps 08
We just spent two fantastic days at the Future of Web Apps conference in London. There were so many PHPers around, most of whom we'd never met before, and it was so cool to hear about your current projects - there seems to be so much going on at the moment, despite the economic downturn! When we weren't playing with Microsoft Surface or riding the Sun "surfboard", we heard the founder of Digg bashing PHP - or at least announcing that they are moving some of their software into Python. The rumour says this is because of a need to use real threading and some other features that PHP cannot provide at the moment, and in that case - for those components - it's the right decision (it's as important to know when to use PHP, as it is when not to).
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