Do you shudder at the mere mention of .NET code? In reality, many businesses have .NET systems and as PHP developers, we need to be aware of how to integrate successfully with these systems. This article examines the Phalanger project and how it can be useful for this type of cross-language integration. –by Joel Clermont

Applications and websites targeted to work on mobile devices and deliver useful information to on-the-go users are quickly becoming a necessity rather than a luxury. This article discusses lessons learned by the developers of the mobile website at Texas A&M University. –by Jeff Carouth

You have been developing applications in PHP for some time, and you’ve experimented with rolling your own frameworks as well as the big, more established, frameworks such as Zend Framework, CodeIgniter, CakePHP and Kohana. You’re always open to new concepts, frameworks and approaches to development, though. Hey, aren’t we all? I sure know that I am. Well, let’s create a great project with the new Yii Framework. –by Matthew Setter

There are probably a hundred good reasons or so why you should check out the NOLOH framework today, but we thought we’d save you a little time and just mention some of our favorites. NOLOH’s Notables are those brave and daring features which make it sharply and uniquely stand out in the saturated world of frameworks. –by Asher Snyder and Philip Ross

Limb is the oldest PHP 5 Framework. It is older than Zend Framework, Symfony, Cake, etc. (the first release was in 2004). The current version, Limb3, was designed not only for websites, but also for different web applications. It contains many flexible components that can be combined in different ways, which is easy for agile development. –by Maxim Antonov

It’s that time of year again. That’s right. It’s Christmas, the time for giving and receiving. It’s also the time of year that most of us spend reflecting upon our past (closing year) and planning for the future (following year). So merry Christmas! I hope that your past was fruitful and your future is bright. In this column, I would like to reflect on the current year for Drupal and tell you why Drupal could be an excellent Christmas present this year.
–by Adrian Webb

Half-baked technology can lead to full blown issues. –by Arne Blankerts

Understanding how to do something is only half the battle. You can never truly know something until you understand why as well. –by Marco Tabini

We’ve come a long way since last year, what do you think? –by Elizabeth Tucker Long

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