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Vol 7, Issue 12

November 2008

Articles
8

Send in the Clouds

by Colin May

If you've been keeping up with recent technological advances, you can't have helped but notice the near constant mention of the phrase "Cloud Computing". Colin May delves behind that phrase to find out what, if anything, cloud computing should mean to PHP developers.

Channel Servers: Distribute Your Code

by Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson

Long-term PEAR contributor Helgi Þormar Þorbjörnsson gives a guided tour of the PEAR packaging system, and explains why using it for non-PEAR projects is such a good idea. In this, the second of a two-part series, Helgi demonstrates how to set up your own PEAR channel server.

Metaprogramming with PHPDoc

by Dan Bettles

"Real programmers don't need docs." Most of us probably feel that way about documentation; that it's an unnecessary evil forced on us by simple convention. Dan Bettles suggests that you might see things differently if the act of documenting your code meant you had less work to do.

Oak

by Thomas Glyn

Developer Thomas Glyn once found a catalog of patterns abandoned in a drawer. He felt they were interesting enough to publish—and we agreed.

Editorial: exit(1)

Column

by Steph Fox

Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish!

Enterprise PHP: Developing the Developers

Column

by Ivo Jansch

Ivo Jansch and a special guest discuss ways in which development teams can keep their knowledge up to date and help grow their skills.

/etc: PHPWomen

Column

by Lorna Jane Mitchell

If you've been to a PHP conference lately, you'll have seen the t-shirts—but would you wear one? Lorna Jane Mitchell believes you should.

exit(0): Will It Blend?

Column

by Marco Tabini

Marco explains why more is sometimes less.

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