There is no big news in the PHP Community since long time, a news that make newspapers and magazines talk about PHP, an innovation that will change the world ! Does the scripting language war is over ? Someone could inform us at least who won.
This month will held the Zend/PHP Conference & Expo and next month there is the Forum PHP in Paris. Almost same conferences, same topics, same people talking here and there. Sice last year, nothing new happened ! PHP5 is there with strongest OOP support and lot of new features … and what’s next ? PHP4 is still the most used, and migration have been very very slow !
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A friend send me this schedule, which I found very interesting so download your copy and print it. And happy ramadan for everyone.
Using a fresh install of PHP, it’s always a problem for newbies specially if they’re working offline there is a need to deal with big files. And if I start working with phpmyadmin I don’t prefer to visit mysql console just to run my dump file. So in case you need to tweak your PHP to upload big files there is three parameters to change in php.ini
- upload_max_filesize
- memory_limit
- post_max_size
Why I’m posting this ? because I always change the first one upload_max_filesize and forget to tweak the others. Now I have to remember …
I was looking for something at the Novell website and strangely nothing is working fine, first time, second time, until I checked http://forge.novell.com/ and found this
Novell website was hacked by iranian group, this is the message they left on the Novell servers :
Atomic energy is our right
even with threating us NO one can rule us not to use atomic power , it is our right and we ( all iranian people ) are united in this matter
we are being industrialized and being industrialized means need for more energy and this energy should come from somewhere
we want from iran government than quit NPT as soon as possible and close the UK embassy in iran where all of these problems come from
Amazing, how politics can influence on cyber culture and make such people act really weird ! Even that Iran have the right to use Atomic energy, hacking website isn’t a solution to claim it ! It is the loosers way.
I agree that I have missed this one : Microsoft tryed to recruit Eric S. Raymond the founder of Open Source. A good joke that will make your day haha
From: “Mike Walters (Search Wizards)”
To: Eric,
I am a member of the Microsoft Central Sourcing Team. Microsoft is seeking
world class engineers to help create products that help people and businesses
throughout the world realize their full potential.
[…]
The answer of Eric is better to read :
Continue reading Microsoft tries to recruit Raymond
Dan Zambonini, posted on O’Reilly Network about the total cost of using PHP. In conclusion :
This sounds more negative than I imagined it would have. It’s not meant to be - I’m very happy with the progress PHP has made over the last few years (finally, native Unicode support is coming!).
Short answer
PHP Cost $0.00
Long answer
Dan pointed to two times to recruitment, personally I never faced this problem. Maybe because I’m more in touch with the PHP community ? Filtering CVs costs money of course, but I used to know a lot of developers so in case there is a job offer it’s very easy to send CV to the right persons. It’s better than advertising and then filter thousands of offers, if you get thousands ?? cause I’m not sure ! Good PHP developers are rare these days, and they are almost all known. I think filtering CVs will be more difficult with Ruby, .NET or J2EE, I saw CVs with lot of certifications etc and when you talk whith the guy and see his work he’s a newbie who still have difficulties to type on keyboard.
Continue reading The total cost of using PHP !?
