Zend Framework project releases GData component
The Zend Framework Project this morning released their new GData Client Library for interfacing with the Google Data APIs. The Google data APIs (GData) provide a protocol for reading and writing data...
View ArticleMS and Zend form long-term partnership
In a move that's come as a surprise to many people, Zend and Microsoft today announced they've formed a long-term partnership to improve the performance, reliability and stability of PHP on Windows...
View ArticleWDANZ Conference
I'll be speaking on E-Commerce at the WDANZ Conference in Christchurch next month. They've given me a slot on the first day at 12:30 between a security talk by John Martin from IBM, and Location Based...
View ArticlePHP5 Certified
I finally went out this morning and sat the Zend PHP5 exam (and passed!). It seemed a great deal easier than the original ZCE exam was... but then again that was 2004 and I've done a bit more...
View ArticleNZ PHP Users Group reaches 300 members
3 years and 10 months ago - back in May of 2003 - I met with one of my PHP development clients Stephen Thoms at Byzantium cafe in Ponsonby, and we decided to start a user group for PHP developers in...
View ArticleNews Update
As Sid points out, I've been away from here far too long. Hopefully this marks a (semi-permanent) return to blogging! First up we launched social networking on Eventfinder (the Symfony site I've been...
View ArticleEventfinder Favourites on your blog
We've added RSS feeds for your favourites on Eventfinder, which makes it easy to add a list of events you're going to be attending to your website or blog. Kudos to Stuart Maxwell for suggesting this...
View ArticleDel.icio.us switches to Symfony
The preview of the new version of hugely popular web 2.0 social bookmarking site del.icio.us has been available (to invited users) for a few weeks now. In the news this morning Yahoo! have confirmed...
View ArticleZend Studio “Neon” Beta
Like Marc Gear, I also got the email from Zend this morning announcing the new Zend Studio beta, codenamed Neon and based on Eclipse (the open-source Java IDE originally created by IBM). I've been a...
View ArticleSolving NZ’s Business Talent Crisis
This train of thought started as an email response to a post by Nat Torkington last month, in which he lamented the shortage of experienced and capable business staff in New Zealand - the "deal-making...
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