Send in the Clouds

If you’ve been keeping up with recent technological advances,you can’t have helped but notice the near constant mention of thephrase “Cloud Computing”. Colin May delves behind that phrase tofind out what, if anything, cloud computing should mean to PHPdevelopers.—by Colin May

Channel Servers: Distribute Your Code

Long-term PEAR contributor Helgi ÞormarÞorbjörnsson gives a guided tour of the PEARpackaging system, and explains why using it for non-PEAR projectsis such a good idea. In this, the second of a two-part series,Helgi demonstrates how to set up your own PEAR channelserver.—by Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson

Metaprogramming with PHPDoc

“Real programmers don’t need docs.” Most of us probably feelthat way about documentation; that it’s an unnecessary evil forcedon us by simple convention. Dan Bettles suggests that you might seethings differently if the act of documenting your code meant youhad less work to do.—by Dan Bettles

Oak

Developer Thomas Glyn once found a catalog of patternsabandoned in a drawer. He felt they were interesting enough topublish—and we agreed.—by Thomas Glyn

Editorial: exit(1)

Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish!—by Steph Fox

Enterprise PHP: Developing the Developers

Ivo Jansch and a special guest discuss ways in whichdevelopment teams can keep their knowledge up to date and help growtheir skills.—by Ivo Jansch

/etc: PHPWomen

If you’ve been to a PHP conference lately, you’ll have seenthe t-shirts—but would you wear one? Lorna JaneMitchell believes you should.—by Lorna Jane Mitchell

exit(0): Will It Blend?

Marco explains why more is sometimes less.—by Marco Tabini