php[architect]

by Stephen Hird

Share your data with the Facebook community, increase your brand, break through the clutter and maximize the paradigm shift. Buzz words are not the only thing that Facebook, the world's most popular social network, provides. It offers a powerful method for bringing your application to the Facebook community. That method is Connect, a full feature API library.

by Daniel Bargieł

Quality Assurance (QA) is one of the most important aspects of the software development process, but QA and testing can be particularly challenging when the product being built communicates with remote systems. This article will show how we can mock remote business functionality and make our products more easily testable.

by Dan Orlando

Discover how easy it is to implement data services with the Zend Framework and Flash Builder 4 beta.

by Ron Dobley

Have you wanted to add social media functionality to your website, but have not had the time and resources? By integrating a Kickapps hosted community and utilizing their API, you can add a robust set of social media features to your CMS driven website quickly and easily. This article will show you how to get up and running with the Kickapps APIs so that your users can use the social media functions they demand.

by Timothy Boronczyk

You'd be hard pressed to find a developer among us who is tasked with writing nothing else but PHP code all day long. Even in the largest development shops which have clearly defined duties and separated departments, we're often multi-language developers. We use PHP and MySQL to handle back-end processing tasks, and HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build up dynamic front-end interfaces. There's a lot we need to know just to do our jobs on a daily basis!

by Ivo Jansch

In his "php|architect's Guide to Enterprise PHP" book, Ivo discusses various development methodologies such as Agile development, Test Driven Development and various others. In this month's column, Ivo suggests a new paradigm to help developers improve the end result of their projects Flower Driven Development.

by Arne Blankerts

We're tired of hearing about security, and it's showing.

by Marco Tabini

Have best practices made us lose our way?