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179. PHP Programming Innovation Award Winner of 2011

Posted on: 2012-03-28

Richard Keizer from the Netherlands is the winner of the PHP Programming Innovation Award winner of the 2011 edition.

Despite Richard has been very busy with his own projects, he finally made time to give an interview about his participation in the award, as well about other nominated classes of other authors that he thinks are worth mentioning.

Richard also discusses a few very interesting features that he would like to see in the PHP Classes site to make it more useful for developers that submit nice contributions to the site and users that benefit from them.

Read this article to learn more about Richard work and his great ideas to make PHP Classes an even better PHP community site.

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176. Good Friends Bring More Friends to Make the Site Better

Posted on: 2012-02-28

Since 2002 the PHPClasses site has a feature that allows giving credit to friends of the site that bring more new users to the site.

This feature has been enhanced and now it is easier to lead more new users to the site and get even more recognition for that.

Read this article to learn how to take advantage of the new features and help making the site even better with the help of new contributors that you may bring to the site.

Learn also how to make other suggestions to improve the site further.

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172. PHP Zeitgeist 2011

Posted on: 2012-01-18

The PHP Zeitgeist is an initiative that allows us to understand what were some of the main new trends and concerns of the PHP developers in the past year.

Read this article to learn about what new things PHP developers have been searching more in 2011 and what are their needs that probably still need to be fulfilled.

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169. Encouraging the Authors to Do Better

Posted on: 2011-12-22

The site just launched a new feature that hopefully will encourage the authors that contribute to the site to do better and eventually get more feedback and recognition from the users that take advantage of their work.

It is basically a personalized report message that is sent by e-mail regularly with information about how each author is doing, as well insights that give them ideas on how they can do better.

Read this article to learn more about this initiative as well others there were implemented this year to make this a better site for authors and users that participate in it.

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161. More Exposure to Innovative PHP Developers

Posted on: 2011-10-25

Sharing innovative classes definitely pays. The PHPClasses site was just updated to give even more exposure to PHP developers that have shared innovative classes.

Read this article to learn in more detail about how PHP developers are getting more attention to their innovative contributions and how you can benefit from this initiative to also get more attention to your PHP work.

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159. Top PHP Developers in Every Country

Posted on: 2011-09-27

A new feature was just launched that allows seeing which are the top PHP developers in each country of the world that have contributed to the PHPClasses site.

Read this article to learn how the top authors ranking by country works and what you can do to feature and climb in these rankings.

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142. Featured articles about your classes

Posted on: 2011-02-23

The PHPClasses site is introducing a new feature that allows class developers to post special articles about their classes which become featured in the main PHP Classes blog.

The idea is to give more visibility to the work of the class developers by exposing to a greater audience certain articles about their classes which may be interesting to users of the site that are not yet users of those classes.

Only certain posts will get the featured article privilege. This posts explains how it works.

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139. PHP Zeitgeist 2010: What PHP developers have been looking for in the last year?

Posted on: 2011-01-03

PHP Zeitgeist is an initiative similar to Google Zeitgeist for presenting information about what PHP developers have been looking for in the latest times.

The PHP Zeitgeist 2010 edition was just published. This article presents an analysis about PHP developers search trends during 2010.

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138. 2010: Yet another great year for PHP

Posted on: 2010-12-23

2010 was an year full of interesting happenings for the PHP development and its community of developers.

This article presents a balance of what were the most important happenings in the PHP community in 2010, as well a reflection of what we can expect for 2011 for PHP, as well for the PHPClasses site.

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124. 11th birthday and a new site upcoming

Posted on: 2010-06-25

Today was the PHPClasses site 11th birthday. Despite there was no special celebration, it is time to review the developments of the past year.

This article covers also the plans for the upcoming developments, including the launch of a new site derived from the PHPClasses site, which will certainly address the needs of many Web developers.

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