Friday, February 12. 2010Productivity in PHP from a fun perspective
One of the reasons so many people choose PHP for their web development is that it's fast. Not necessarily in the gazillion-requests-per-second sense, but in terms of developer productivity. One sentence you'll hear me say regularly is: "PHP is not pretty, but it gets the thing done, and gets it done well" and even in my 'PHP in the Enterprise' evangelization, the productivity argument is one I often use.
Every once in a while things happen that prove this point, and this is a post about such proof. Continue reading "Productivity in PHP from a fun perspective"
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Tuesday, January 5. 2010PHP in 2009 - A year in retrospective
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.
Continue reading "PHP in 2009 - A year in retrospective" 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" Monday, August 10. 2009A look at the PHP job market
Last week, Cal Evans had an interesting post on this blog about an EDC study on the popularity of programming languages. In the comment section of that post, I had an interesting discussion with Bill Karwin, who suggested that when looking at the job market, PHP still seems less popular than other languages. It is not a surprise that Java and .NET have more jobs, considering they are general purpose languages while PHP's focus is on the web alone.
Later that week, I stumbled across an interesting press release by CV Screen on the job market in the UK. I'm not sure how easily this report translates to the rest of the world (comments are welcome), but since I can see similar trends in other countries, I thought I'd share it nonetheless. Continue reading "A look at the PHP job market" Tuesday, August 4. 2009PHP Rated Top Scripting Language by Evans Data Corp
In their recently released report "Users' Choice: Scripting Language Ratings", Evans Data Corporation (no relation to the author of this article) gave PHP the highest overall ranking of the languages they included in their survey.
The full EDC report can be downloaded here (requires free registration). Talking with 500 developers who actively use scripting languages, EDC ranked the languages on the following criteria. For each category, we've listed how PHP fared:
Continue reading "PHP Rated Top Scripting Language by Evans Data Corp" Thursday, May 7. 2009TestFest 2009
The PHP TestFest is a gathering by PHP enthusiasts that get together to write automated test cases for PHP. These test cases help prevent future incompatibilities and bugs in PHP. The event has grown global over the course of the years, with user groups everywhere in the world participating.
Continue reading "TestFest 2009" Tuesday, May 5. 2009PHP is NOW
PHP is at an inflection point. We are at a once in a lifetime place where several factors are coming together to help boost the profile of PHP up and above the "scripting language" label and into a serious tool for enterprise development.
Many developers inside the PHP community have looked at PHP as serious development tool for years. Major companies like Digg, Expedia, Yahoo and facebook are trotted out during every discussion of PHP to prove what a useful tool PHP is. However, companies like Ladbrokes, Channel Five, Fiat, Panasonic, and the BBC, all use PHP as not only their backend glue language but for serious, enterprise level, transactional workflow systems. In a growing number of large development shops, PHP has gone from "why" to "why not". Continue reading "PHP is NOW" Monday, January 19. 2009Dutch PHP Conference 2009 Call for Papers Amsterdam is calling, the Dutch PHP Conference 2009 Call for Papers is now open!Everyone here at Ibuildings is excited about the Dutch PHP Conference 2009. We've already started work on some of the exciting things we've got planned for this year. We want to encourage you to mark June 11-13 on your calendar and plan on attending. Continue reading "Dutch PHP Conference 2009 Call for Papers"
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Thursday, January 8. 2009Book Review: TYPO3 Extension Development
A couple of months ago I started working on a Typo3 project for a client, and at about the same time I was asked by the folks at Packt Publishing to review a book, so the choice fell naturally on "Typo3 Extension Development" by Dmitry Dulepov.
The book, published in September 2008, covers the entire extension development life cycle, from planning to uploading it to the Typo3 Extension Repository (TER). Continue reading "Book Review: TYPO3 Extension Development" 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.
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