A few months ago I had the opportunity to attend AdobeMAX. While I was there at Adobe’s invitation, I took it upon myself to chat with smart people from all over the community. One of the more interesting people I tracked down was Christian Cantrell.

Recently Matthew Weier O’Phinney, Supreme Allied Commander of Zend Framework, posted on his blog “Aspects, Filters, and Signals, Oh, My!” In it he references an article published in php|architect magazine. We dug the article up and give you a link to it for free.

The hype of 2010 was clearly NoSQL.

Today, the PHP community mourns the passing of a friend. Three weeks ago Richard Thomas, community member and friend to all who knew him passed away.

For those of you just joining us, we just wrapped the CodeWorks 2010 Tour. While I’ve written a recap elsewhere, I wanted to take some time to acknowledge and thank the User Groups.

If you’ve been following along the last couple months, you know that a number of us were recently on the CodeWorks 2010 tour. In ten days we hit five cities and met user groups all over the place. All in all, it was a blast – we all have writeups coming – but you’re not here for our analysis.. you’re hear for our slides.

Ever wondered how well Microsoft SQL Server works with PHP? It turns out that it works quite well—and we’ve got a brand-new whitepaper to help you navigate the ins and outs of its use.

The wonderful PHP Northwest 2010 conference took place last weekend in Manchester, UK, and our Marco Tabini was present to keynote Lorna Jane Mitchell’s keynote “Teach a man to fish.” Here’s the transcript from the event (powered by Blue Parabola’s upcoming live-blogging system Broadr).

By popular demand, we have extended the early-bird special for our upcoming CodeWorks tour until Monday, October 4th in order to give everybody an opportunity to sign up for one (or more!) of the tour stops for the low, low, low price of $75 (or even cheaper if you get in with groups of five […]

Experiments that question our conventions can help us understand those conventions better.