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Monday, September 21. 2009PHP enters top 3 of most popular programming languages
The company TIOBE, founded in 2000, is involved heavily with Software Quality. They call themselves 'the coding standards company' and deliver tools to assess the quality of software by checking coding standards, among other things. Unfortunately, despite the fact that their website is written in PHP, they do not support PHP yet with their tools (at least as far as I can tell from their website), but they have one activity that is of interest to us in the PHP ecosystem: they collect statistics on the popularity of programming languages and have been doing this for a few years now.
In their latest analysis PHP has entered the top 3 of most popular programming languages, and that is something that both makes us proud and provides further proof that PHP is still growing and here to stay. Continue reading "PHP enters top 3 of most popular programming languages" Friday, September 11. 2009Oh Be Careful Little Eyes What You See
The children's Bible song starts off with the line "Oh be careful little eyes what you see". Regardless of whether you agree with the religious doctrine behind the song, the advice from the first line is, none-the-less, applicable to the PHP community these days.
The web has made it easy for anyone to become an instant pundit, regardless of their background. The tools exist so that anyone can quickly and easily publish anything and call it a fact. Nowhere is this problem more visible than in the software development community at large and the PHP community in specific. Continue reading "Oh Be Careful Little Eyes What You See" Monday, September 7. 2009Migrating a dev team to an OO team (Part 1)
For many years Object Oriented Programming was rare in the PHP world. Many PHP programmers don’t know OO simply because PHP isn't natively an OO language. But with PHP5, PHP really entered the world of objects.
Still many PHP programmers feel that OO is too much for PHP. They don't see the benefits of object oriented programming. This is the start of a series of blog posts to investigate the topic. Continue reading "Migrating a dev team to an OO team (Part 1)" Wednesday, September 2. 2009PHP North West 2009
10th October 2009 sees the second annual PHP Conference to be held in Manchester, PHP North West. As one of the organisers I've been watching the arrangements come together with growing excitement: this year we have a new venue, a schedule literally packed with excellent sessions, plenty of social activity, and some community-driven input on Sunday morning - I'll even be speaking myself this year. Some of the topics at this year's conference include various PHP frameworks, performance, Drupal, project management, and much more.
The conference is a regional event aimed at PHP developers of all levels as well as their managers, coming together and exchanging ideas around developing PHP within teams today. Our attendees range from those living locally or making a daytrip of it right across to speakers and attendees flying in from mainland Europe. We're very grateful to all our sponsors, they've stepped up to get involved even in the difficult economic climate and without them this entirely volunteer-organised conference simply couldn't happen. Continue reading "PHP North West 2009"
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