PHPDeveloper.org http://www.phpdeveloper.org Up-to-the Minute PHP News, views and community en-us Fri, 29 Aug 2008 19:47:33 -0500 30 <![CDATA[Inside Open Source: Matt Westgate on Drupal Theming]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/8538 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/8538 On the Inside Open Source blog today, Jason Gilmore mentions an upcoming event the Drupal-ers out there might want to check out:

Co-author of Pro Drupal Development Matt Westgate will be giving a live webinar on how to customize Drupal themes. The webinar is slated for September 9 at 7pm GMT, so mark your calendars!

You can find out more information about the webinar on the Groups.Drupal website.

]]> Tue, 28 Aug 2007 07:55:00 -0500 <![CDATA[Rob Allen's Blog: PHP UK Conference 2007]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/7341 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/7341 Those that didn't get a chance to check out this year's PHP UK Conference can get a little taste of what it was like from Rob Allen's perspective in his latest blog post today.

Included in the happenings he mentions were the talk that Cal Evans of the Zend Developer Zone gave on mashups, Kevin Henney's look at Object Orientation, and Rasmus Lerdorf's look at PHP5 performance/security. He also mentions meeting up with Dagfinn Reiersol (author of PHP in Action) to "talk shop" a bit about writing books.

You can check out all of the details about the conference that was over on their website including summaries of the talks that were given during this jam-packed one day event.

]]> Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:04:00 -0600 <![CDATA[Zend Developer Zone: Davey Shafik and Ben Ramsey on the Zend Certification Exam Study Guide]]> http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/6455 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/6455 On the Zend Developer Zone today, there's an interview with the co-authors of the recently released book from php|architect, the Zend Certification Study Guide.

The new Zend Certification Study Guide is out and the initial reviews look good. Since this was a topic of interest to me (mainly because I've yet to take the test) I decided to dig a little deeper. I fired up my recorder and called Davey Shafik and Ben Ramsey, the authors of the new guide, to talk to them. Here to give you a little of the back story is our conversation.

They talk about:

  • the release of the book
  • some of the contents of the chapters (including the sample chapter on security)
  • Davey's experience with the exam/Ben's use of his PHP4 certification in his work
  • and the practice tests that php|architect is offering to get developers prepared.

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