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How to Create a Software Product Business Continuing to Be a Developer (1 day ago)
Posted on: 2016-09-07 Summary: What developers like most is to write code. Creating your own software product business gives you a lot of freedom to work any time you want, anywhere you want, work with the technologies you like, but some developers are afraid that once they start a business they may need to stop writing code and give up on the joy of being a developer.
Fortunately it does not have to be this way. You can create your own software product business and still continue to work as a developer.
Watch this video to learn about different solutions to continuing to be a developer while you work on your own software product business.Notable PHP package: morgen (2 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-09-06 Summary: Developers that have tried to create applications that should run both on the Web, Android and iOS devices know that you need to have a different sets of application image icons that looks well on different resolutions.
This package provides a solution by automatically generating icon sets for different devices and sizes.
It supports generating icons from a SVG source graphics if you can run a program like Inkscape to convert images from SVG to the PNG format.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.Notable PHP package: ITE Collection (7 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-09-01 Summary: PHP is very good at dealing with arrays of values. It provides interfaces that can let developers create classes that can manipulate lists of values using the regular array syntax and functions.
Often the code for manipulating different types of values is the same for different classes that implement array interfaces.
This package provides a trait that can manipulate collections of unique values that can be either arrays and objects. The trait may be reused by other classes that implement similar collections of other types of values.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.The Best Way To Find a Developer Job in 2016 (8 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-08-31 Summary: Times have passed and the way you get hired jobs as software developer or even other positions has changed.
In the past you used to find jobs and and apply by sending resumes. Or worse you would get chased by annoying recruiters.
Nowadays companies like Hired have inverted the process and made it such way that instead of you applying for jobs, companies apply to find talented professionals.
Read this article to learn how Hired implements this modern hiring process and how you can join to benefit from getting better job opportunities.Notable PHP package: PHP SSH Connection Session (9 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-08-30 Summary: SSH is a protocol to communicate with a remote server via a secure connection that allows to execute commands on a remote machine.
However, the length of the commands that can be executed is limited.
This package provides a workaround for this limitation that consists in creating a shell script to execute long commands and execute it using the bash shell.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.5 Phases to Create Software Products that Will Be Perfect for Your Customers (10 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-08-29 Summary: Many software products failed because their developers did not start by listening to their customers problems.
Learning about the customers problems is the first of 5 phases of a method called Design Thinking. When well applied this method can lead to the creation of products that are perfect for their customers.
Watch this video to learn how you can apply this method to design your software products in a short period of time and get what customers really need even before you start writing a line of code.PHP and JavaScript Innovation Award Report August 2016 Edition - May 2016 nominees (13 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-08-26 Summary: This is the August edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of May 2016.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative, as well the current rankings of the Innovation Award Championship by author and by country.Notable PHP package: PHP Builder Pattern Generator (14 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-08-25 Summary: The builder design pattern allows to dynamically create objects in a way that the same process of construction can allow multiple representations of the object that can be changed over time according to the needs of a project.
This package implements the builder design pattern with a concrete builder class that generates code for classes dynamically to implement a representation of the object class being built at run time.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.Notable PHP package: CakePHP 2.x Container (16 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-08-23 Summary: Dependency injection is design pattern often used implement functionality on one class using objects from external classes without hardcoding the dependency between the two classes.
Several PHP frameworks implement their own dependency injection containers but since each one implements it in a different way, a generic container interface was defined to allow to call components of one framework to be called from by components of any other framework.
The package implements a component with the generic dependency injection container interface so application services and other types of applications not based on CakePHP can be easily used with CakePHP.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.How to Create Your Own Software Product Business Without Quitting Your Day Job (17 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-08-22 Summary: Many developers want to create their own software product business but they still need money to support themselves, and so cannot quit their day jobs.
Watch this very short video to learn about a simple tip on how you still can create your own business without having to quit your current job.Notable PHP package: PHP UDP Hole Punching (20 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-08-19 Summary: When you want to connect to a remote machine that is connected to a group of peers but you do not know its address, one common solution is to connect to central server and ask the addresses of the peers to communicate with them.
This technique is used by NAT servers (Network Address Translators) that are often running on router machines in order to route requests to remote machines from local network computers.
This process is called hole punching because it uses an intermediary server to get the addresses of the remote machines, so the client can communicate with them.
This PHP package implements a server with one class that can keeps the list of connected client machines and returns the list of peer addresses and ports.
The client class connects to the server class to get the peer machine address list, so it can send messages to them using UDP packets.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.Will Lazy Statements Make PHP 7 Programming More Efficient ? Lately in PHP podcast episode 74 (21 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-08-18 Summary: A recent proposal is being discussed for PHP 7 feature called lazy statements. It would allow developers to assign values to variables based on code that is only executed when the variable is accessed for the first time, thus avoiding executing the code if the variable ends up never being accessed.
That was one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 74 of the Lately in PHP podcast hangout.
They also talked about the HTTPoxy vulnerability that affects some important PHP projects, as well the usual proposals for upcoming PHP versions like autoloading for global functions, different syntax for returning $this for classes that provide fluent interfaces, support for arbitrary method in the built-in PHP Web server, a new structured object notation for creating objects, etc..
They also mentioned features to be discontinued in PHP 7.1 like SSL 2 support and some extensions that will not ship with PHP 7.1 anymore.
This article includes a transcript of the podcast summary.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the summary transcript to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.Notable PHP package: PHP YouTube Movie Trailers (22 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-08-17 Summary: YouTube is certainly the most popular video hosting site on the Web.
It is used to publish all sorts of videos including trailers of many movies often way before they are released in theathers.
This package can access the YouTube site to perform searches for trailers of specific movies, so it can extract the video identifiers of the trailer movies. It generates HTML to embed those videos on other site Web pages.
Since it just scrapes the YouTube search result pages, it does not need to use an API key.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.How to Pick Partners for a Software Product Business? - Fix My Software Product Business (24 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-08-15 Summary: When creating a software product business most developers prefer to just deal with with the software development part.
However, somebody should take care of the marketing, sales, finances, human resources, etc.. The best way to cover for these business needs is to bring people specialized on these areas, so you can continue to focus on the software development efforts.
But how should you keep them interested working for your company? Should you hire them or make them business partners? How do you pick business partners that will not cause you trouble later?
Watch this consulting session video to learn how to answer these questions so your business grows in a healthy manner with great partners.Fast PHP Error Monitoring and Bug Fixing with Rollbar (25 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-08-14 Summary: Regardless of how good you are as a developer, you will always ship code to production that will have bugs or does not deal with situations that were unanticipated.
Therefore you always need to have a tool that can monitor the errors on the server side, so you can act promptly and fix issues as quickly as possible.
Read this tutorial to learn how you can use Rollbar to keep track of your PHP Web applications issues.Notable PHP package: PHP Detect Google Crawler (27 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-08-12 Summary: Google is the most popular search engine. Being well ranked on Google is important for many sites to get nice organic traffic.
Many sites try to serve content for Google crawler bots as fast as possible, so that increases the chances of the sites pages to rank well.
In theory it is easy to detect when the Google bot is accessing a Web page. It is usually a matter of detecting the user agent string sent with requests from the Google bot crawler.
However, there are crawlers and malicious bots that pretend to be the real Google bot faking its user agent string.
This class provides a more robust way to detect whether a request is coming from Google bot or not.
It just gets the HTTP client IP address and resolves its host name to verify if it really has one of the known Google bot domains.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.10 High Growth Companies Hiring PHP Developers (29 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-08-10 Summary: PHP is so popular that sometimes fans of other languages question if PHP is still that popular in the hope that PHP developers move on to the languages of their preference.
The fact is that PHP continues to be so popular that large companies have still great demands for qualified PHP developers.
Read this article to learn about some of the high growth companies that continue to look for great PHP developers.Notable PHP package: PHP Web Site Compare Files (29 days ago)
Posted on: 2016-08-10 Summary: Sometimes it is necessary to verify if the files of a site on the server are up to date and were not changed eventually by an attacker that took advantage of a security hole.
There are some solutions that compute hashes of all the files in the server but they do not tell whether the files different because they are not up to date with the latest development version or were changed eventually due to a security attack.
This class provides a solution that uses a different approach. It calls a script on the server that lists the existing files.
This way it can compare list of files on the production and the development environments, or even compare the files installed on different production or testing servers.
Read this article to learn more details about how this notable PHP package works.
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Innovation award results
Congratulations to Aleksey Nemiro!
| Rank | Class | Author | Score | Points | Prize | |
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| 1 | PHP Small Server Administrator Web panel for small Debian and Ubuntu servers |
Aleksey Nemiro | Russian Federation | 24.14% | 11 | |
| 2 | Jaxon Call PHP classes from JavaScript using AJAX |
Thierry Feuzeu | Cameroon | 17.24% | 10 | |
| 3 | Faster PHP IP2Location Faster method to find the location of IP addresses |
Chi Hoang | France | 13.79% | 9 | |
| 4 | Rabbit ORM ORM for CodeIgniter based on Laravel's Eloquent |
Fabio Mazzo | Brazil | 10.34% | 8 | |
| 5 | PHP String Socializer Replace text with hash tags and social media links |
Luciano Salvino | Argentina | 6.90% | 7 | |
| 5 | BladeOne Standalone template engine that compiles into PHP |
Jorge Castro | Chile | 6.90% | 7 | |
| 5 | CMS Airship Content management system with security features |
Scott Arciszewski | United States | 6.90% | 7 | |
| 5 | PHP Silex REST Multi Lazy Load Create REST APIs with module lazy loading |
John Diaz | Colombia | 6.90% | 7 | |
| 9 | Automator Shell Action Tools Process console input and environment variables |
Karl Holz | Canada | 3.45% | 3 | |
| 9 | Deferred Exceptions Queue exceptions and throws them afterwards |
magog | Russian Federation | 3.45% | 3 | |
| 11 | PHP IIN and BIN Identify card issuer and bank from numbers |
Yorch Ponce | Mexico | <1.00% | 1 |
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