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Friday, April 2. 2010What does the iPad mean for PHP companies?
Tomorrow is the big day that everybody and their mother have been talking about for the past few weeks. The iPad will finally be available, albeit only in a very select part of the world. Some have shunned the iPad as 'just a web browsing device' or 'a large iPhone, why bother?' and others have hailed it as the end of the laptop.
I see the iPad (and the non-Apple alternatives that already exist or are on the way) as a game changer. It brings new ways of consuming content and will reach audiences that the laptop has never reached. Similar to how the iPhone had a whole new audience that had no prior smart phone experience, the iPad will attract a new generation of web consumers. Whether it's simply reading email on the couch, or using recipes in the kitchen or new ways of reading magazines (Dutch page, but watch the English embedded video, it's awesome); we are moving into a new phase of web consumption. Continue reading "What does the iPad mean for PHP companies?" Thursday, December 10. 2009New white paper: Introducing Service APIs
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 only once into the service layer. They can also help integrate third party applications in a consistent and robust way, and work around possible performance limitations. This new white paper, written by Ivo Jansch, explains the steps required to successfully migrate to a service API, from functional analysis all the way to documentation. It gives examples of common problems in the media and travel industries which can be solved with a service layer solution. Download a PDF copy now (free, but we ask you to leave your contact details) Thursday, February 7. 2008Backward compatibility, bane of the developer
Recently 'A List Apart' posted an article about the new X-UA-Compatible switch that Microsoft will be implementing in Internet Explorer 8.
In short, you can target versions of the IE renderer with the switch; you can say: I want this page to be rendered like IE7 would render it and then IE8 (and IE9 and IE10 presumably) would render it similarly to IE7. Now this provoked a lot of reactions, and it got me thinking about one of the most painful subjects among developers (PHP and in general): backward compatibility. Continue reading "Backward compatibility, bane of the developer"
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Wednesday, October 17. 2007Zendcon is voorbij
Zo,
de Zend Conference, en ons tripje naar San Francisco, zit erop. Ik had beloofd nog even verslag te doen van de laatste dag. Komt ie! De laatste dag was maar een halve helaas, om mensen de gelegenheid te geven om 's middags nog terug te reizen. De dag begon met een keynote van Corey Doctorow. Alhoewel de presentatie niet echt iets met PHP te maken had, was het een onderwerp dat veel geeks aanspreekt: copyrights en DRM. Volgens Corey wordt kopieren alleen maar makkelijker in plaats van moeilijker, en wordt het tijd dat de muziek en filmindustrie met hun tijd meegaan. Quote: "Suing kids for downloading mp3's is not going to get them back into the record store". Corey pleit voor een nieuw soort kijk- en luistergeld systeem, waarmee je een bijdrage per maand kunt betalen om ongelimiteerd content te mogen kopieren. Ook is hij voorstander van de 'Creative Commons'. Hij had zeer overtuigende argumenten en het was jammer dat de muziekindustrie zelf niet in de zaal zat. Continue reading "Zendcon is voorbij"
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