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Jul 20, 2009

Roll Your Own CW09 Schedule with Our New DreamSchedule Generator!

Conferences are always busy—there are people to meet, new subjects to learn, gadgets to envy, and so on. Among all the f...

Jul 20, 2009

Welcome to CodeWorks, Nate Abele!

Nate Abele is the lead developer of the CakePHP framework, an internationally ignored author and speaker, and has come...

Jul 17, 2009

Ben Ramsey Comes to CodeWorks 09!

Ben Ramsey is a Senior Software Architect at Schematic, where he is a leader in the Open Source Platforms Group, design...

Jul 15, 2009

The Recording for Friday's Webcast is Now Available

In last week's free webcast in our CodeWorks 09 Free Webcast Series, Microsoft's Sumit Chawla showed us the great progre...

Jul 7, 2009

Don't Miss Friday's Free Webcast!

Our Summer Webcast Series is in full swing! Following the success of Matthew Turland's presentation on SPL in PHP 5.3, w...

Jul 3, 2009

Missed Our SPL Webcast? View the Recording!

If you missed our New SPL Features in PHP 5.3 webcast, which Matthew Turland from Blue Parabola hosted last Friday, we h...

Jul 2, 2009

HTML 5: What You Need to Know

Speaking of HTML 5 is not an easy task when so much of our time is still wasted designing mark-up code that works across...

Jul 2, 2009

Opinion: Estimate != Sales Quote

Accurately estimating the time it will take to build a project seems to be a problem in IT shops worldwide. One of the r...

Jul 1, 2009

Is it Time to Stop Masking Passwords?

Protecting passwords from unauthorized snooping is, probably, one of the most basic tenets of security—after all, if som...

Jun 29, 2009

Sign up for CW09 Before July 6th, and Your Ticket Could be Free!

Sure, the early-bird price doesn't end until July 15th, and with it you could secure a seat for CodeWorks in your town...

Jun 29, 2009

CodeWorks 09: The Schedule is Live!

The schedule for CodeWorks 09 —our incredible fall conference tour that will visit seven cities throughout the United St...

Jun 26, 2009

Confessions of a Hiring Manager: Get my attention, Get a Job

Clutter is the disease of American writing. We are a society strangling in unnecessary words, circular constructions, po...

Jun 25, 2009

Stop Telling People to Optimize, and Start Teaching Them to Program

I came across a post on the Google Code blog today titled “PHP performance tips” from their “Let's make the web faster”...

Jun 25, 2009

New From php|a: 5 Great PHP T-Shirts

If you have ever attended a php|architect conference, you probably know all about our great t-shirts. Until now, these w...