The CakeFest site as been updated to announce pre-registration and other information about CakeFest #2, which will be held in Buenos Aries, Argentina at the beginning of December.

As of this post, the speakers haven't been selected (want to give a talk? The Call for Papers is still open through June 13th, 2008!) but you can find out more about the conference and the location on the conference website.

• Going Native With mysqlnd by Andrey Hristov and Ulf Wendel
• Understanding CLI by Dirk Merkel
• Web Scraping by Matthew Turland
• Product review: SQLyog MySQL GUI-Enterprise Edition by Eddie Peloke

...and the three usual columns - /etc, Security Corner and exit(0) from Marco Tabini.

You can get more information about this issue and on ordering it (or a year's subscription) from this page on the php|architect website.

• PHP Essentials
• PHP Certification Combo
• Professional PHP
• Building Rich Internet Applications With PHP 5 and AJAX

Classes start at around $770 USD and, as an extra incentive, their iPod Touch promotion is still going on. Order any training class and get a free iPod Touch delivered right to your door. Only training purchased between September 18th and November 30th of 2007 are eligible, so be sure to get your order in in time!

Here's the latest statistics on the usage of PHP for December 2005:

• PHP 5.x usage grows up to 5% (at the same pace as months before). The release of PHP 5.1 seemed to have no effect.
• PHP 4.4.4 continues to enjoy strong use, despite the differences between it and older versions like 4.3.10 and 4.3.11.

Some of the other items they measure include: adoption by country, number of servers running it by country, and the adoption of PHP in Canada for the month. Note: the page is all in French, but the graphs are easy to understand...]]> Wed, 04 Jan 2006 10:39:21 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4555 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4555 php|architect has been released today - the December 2005 issue.

Included in this edition are the following:

• Special Feature: Where in the World is PHP? - an overview of how PHP stands currently (the sample article for this month)
• PHP Web Services - a look at them with a focus on SOAP
• Advanced SQLite Development - more than just the casual use

...and much, much more, including the cover story "An Introduction to Drupal". So, head over and grab your issue today - either through the savings you get through a subscription, or the grat price of a single issue!]]> Fri, 23 Dec 2005 11:46:12 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4539 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4539 a pointer on Nexen.net today that leads to the latest issue of the French PHP magazine, Direction|PHP.

In this issue, they talk about:

• Stored procedures and functions in MySQL
• Advanced Development with SQLite
• Logging and Monitoring with log4php
• and an Interview with Marc Delisle

Check out the full description for all of the contents in this issue. Plus, there's a link to the sample article for this month, "Logging and Monitoring with log4php".]]> Wed, 21 Dec 2005 13:41:09 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4506 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4506 this new post today with a look at the latest PHP statistics showing the usage up to November 2005.

Back in October, the overall use of PHP decreased slightly, but there's been an upward surge in November to compensate. The numbers for the domains using PHP rose to about 220,526 (for a total of about 22.2 million) and the number of servers using PHP rose by 11 (for a total of 12.8 million). According to Security Space, the popularity of the PHP module in Apache installations saw a bit of a decrease - 0.6 percent. Of course, it's still the most popular module for Apache users/installations. The TIOBE Programming Index gives PHP a slight decrese of 1.76 percent, but that changes nothing in its placement on the list - still holding at 4th.

You can check out the complete stats here...]]> Thu, 15 Dec 2005 07:05:45 -0600 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4402 http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/4402 December meeting posted today.

The December meeting sees the return of James Logsdon as a speaker. He will be speaking on object-oriented programming in PHP, and seasoned programmer and "newbie" alike should benefit from this discussion. The meeting will take place at the usual location at New Horizons Learning Center in Tucker, GA, and those who wish to grab pizza and drinks afterwards are encouraged to make their way to the Mellow Mushroom following the meeting.

The topic for this meeting is "OOP in PHP" - a look at all things object-oriented in the land of PHP. The meeting is December 1st at 7pm in Tucker, Georgia and will be held at New Horizions (as usual). For complete information on the meetup, check out their site...]]> Wed, 30 Nov 2005 07:19:51 -0600