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83. Slide presentations of talks about classes

Posted on: 2008-11-14

Authors may now submit slide presentations about their classes and have them rank higher in the users rated packages ranking.

Also if you live near the Seattle, Washington area in the United States, you may also want to attend an informal PHP meetup next week, to which several well known PHP developers will also attend.

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82. PHP Object-Relational Mapping: ORM or ROM?

Posted on: 2008-10-09

This article talks about what is Object-Relational Mapping (ORM). It also talks about PHP ORM solutions that can make you more productive by allowing the development of your PHP database driven sites progress faster.

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81. Site design theme editor

Posted on: 2008-09-01

The site is launching an editor that allows designs to propose new site design themes.

This is the initial beta version of the site design editor, but it already allows any designer to try different presentation designs.

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80. 9th anniversary announcements

Posted on: 2008-07-31

This article talks about the latest improvements in the site PHP specific job board.

It also presents a new idea that will allow any site user propose a new design for the site to help improving the its presentation and usability.

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79. New PHP dedicated job site

Posted on: 2008-06-18

The PHPClasses site is launching a new job board dedicated to announce jobs specifically for PHP professionals.

This new PHP job site allows companies to reach a large number of professionals with specific PHP skills eventually taking less time and money to find qualified professionals to fill their job openings.

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78. PHP certification: is it worth it?

Posted on: 2008-05-27

This post focus on the question of whether it is useful for PHP developers to obtain a certification.

Maurício Garcia is a reputed PHP professional from Brazil that gives presentations about Zend PHP certification that help people to decide whether is it really worth taking the exam and how to get prepared to take it.

Maurício has given an interview that answers many questions that may help PHP developers decide whether it is worth obtain the PHP Zend certification and to prepare yourself to pass the exam. The complete interview is published in this article.

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77. Google App Engine needs PHP support

Posted on: 2008-04-11

Google App Engine was launched but it does not support PHP. This article presents some ideas that can help Google adding PHP support sooner rather than later.

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76. Top 10 tips to get better PHP jobs

Posted on: 2008-03-31

This article presents top tips that may help you getting better PHP jobs.

Also related with the quest of getting better PHP jobs, the PHPClasses site is launching a new search engine with the goal to help employers finding PHP professionals by skill.

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75. And the award winner is...

Posted on: 2008-02-21

No, this is not the Oscar winners announcement. It is the announcement of the PHP Programming Award winner of 2007.

Here it is published details about the top ranked authors or 2007, the prizes that they got from the sponsors, and an interview with the winner, so we can know more about him and his work with PHP.

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74. A PHP killer feature - Streams abstraction

Posted on: 2008-01-31

This article explains what are stream handlers and how they simplify PHP developers lives by allowing PHP applications to easily read and write data from containers, like remote Web pages or e-mail messages, as if they were files.

A real world example is presented to demonstrate how you can access messages in a POP3 mailbox and how it can be used to automatically process messages from the site users requesting support.

The article also presents more examples of cool stream handlers classes submitted to the PHPClasses site by several authors.

Unrelated to this topic, the PHPClasses site is announcing the availability of a Twitter activity stream that may be used to keep track in a single place of the submissions like: the latest classes, reviews, blog posts and trackbacks.

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