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Laura Thomson's Blog: PHP Best Practices at ApacheCon

Thu, 01 Nov 2007 10:06:00 -0500

Laura Thomson points out that she and Luke Welling will be presenting their "PHP Best Practices" talk at the upcoming ApacheCon (in Atlanta, Georgia starting November 12th).

This is a half day tutorial which we try to tailor to what people want to hear about on the day. We'll get into the nitty gritty of writing clean, fast, secure code.

Registration for this year's event is still open and there'll be other PHP-related talks including Christian Wenz's look at web services and Chris Shiflett's "Writing Secure Web Applications with PHP".

Laura Thomson's Blog: On Open Source: PHP Video Podcast

Mon, 22 Oct 2007 09:33:00 -0500

As part of their presentation, Luke and Laura recorded a video podcast for Informit covering the current state of PHP. It was shown at this year's posted both parts for your downloading pleasure.

This is part of Informit's podcast series On Open Source: Part 1, Part 2.

I rant about frameworks, Luke talks about PHP security, and we offer advice for young programmers. I hope you enjoy it, it was fun to record.

For more open source related podcasts, check out the Informit page for topics like software freedom, Microsoft, monetization and SourceForge.

Zend Developer Zone: PHPers Among the Top 8 Hottest Manbloggers on the Web

Mon, 27 Aug 2007 10:38:00 -0500

The Zend Developer Zone has posted about some of the opinions of Vanessa concerning some of the "hottest manbloggers" on the web. Included in her list are to PHPers - Chris Shiflett and Luke Welling.

Vanessa has realized what women like Laura and Christina already knew. PHP guys are smokin' hotties. To prove this she listed both Chris Shiflett and Luke Welling as two of the top 8 Manbloggers on the web.

For those that are wondering, here's some shots: Chris Shiflett, Luke Welling.

Here's a link to Vanessa's post too.