PHP Innovation Award

180. Will PHP development Migration to Git improve non-Core Developer Contribution Interest? - Lately in PHP podcast episode 22

Posted on: 2012-04-05

The PHP development migrated to a Git repository. With the integration with GitHub it became easier for non-core developers to submit pull requests with bug fixes and new feature improvements to PHP.

Will this new possibility make it PHP core developers accept more contributions from non-core developers? That is one of the main topics discussed by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert in the episode 22 of the Lately in PHP podcast.

They also talk about the upcoming PHP 5.4.1 release, as well about the repercussion of a recently article that aims to encourage more PHP developers to embrace Object Oriented Programming, and the top packages of the PHP Programming Innovation Award edition of 2011.

Listen to the podcast or read the transcript to learn more about this and other interesting PHP topics.

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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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143. Is PHP really loosing popularity for Python and C#? PHP Innovation Award of 2010 - Lately in PHP podcast episode 9

Posted on: 2011-02-28

The winner of the PHP Programming Innovation Award was announced. Rochak Chauhan was invited for an interview to talk about his award on episode 9 of the Lately in PHP podcast, hosted as usual by Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert.

The three also discuss the latest developments of the TIOBE programming languages ranking. The latest numbers seem to suggest that languages like Python and C# are gaining popularity supposedly at the expense of an apparent loss of interest on PHP.

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116. PHP Innovation Award 2009 results

Posted on: 2010-02-18

The results of the PHP Programming Innovation Award of 2009 were computed and the winner is Sam Shull.

This article presents an interview with Sam, so we may learn more about him and his work with PHP.

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113. PHP Zeitgeist: What PHP developers have been looking for in the last decade?

Posted on: 2010-01-06

PHP Zeitgeist is a new initiative to show the trends on what PHP developers have been looking for year after year. It is somewhat similar to Google End of the Year Zeitgeist.

This article explains in detail what is this initiative and how you can take advantage of the information that it provide to keep up with the latest trends in the PHP development market and improve your career.

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107. PHP in Arabic

Posted on: 2009-11-15

The use of Arabic in Web sites has been growing in a significant way in the latest years.

This is an idiom that requires special care due to the nature of its writing.

This article presents an interview with Khaled Al-Shamaa, the leader of Ar-PHP, a project that aims to simplify the lives of developers that want to build Arabic sites using PHP.

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93. Winner of PHP Programming Innovation Award of the year announced

Posted on: 2009-04-21

The winner of PHP Programming Innovation Award of 2008 was announced.

Now there is also a ranking of the innovation award of all time that considers the score of each author since the award started in 2004. There are also new rankings of author countries for each year and all time.

Cesar Rodas won the 2008 award. Here he gives an interview telling about many good things that happened since he won last year. He also shares his secrets to contribute so many innovative classes appreciated by the users that voted on them and made possible to win the 2008 award.

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75. And the award winner is...

Posted on: 2008-02-21

No, this is not the Oscar winners announcement. It is the announcement of the PHP Programming Award winner of 2007.

Here it is published details about the top ranked authors or 2007, the prizes that they got from the sponsors, and an interview with the winner, so we can know more about him and his work with PHP.

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74. A PHP killer feature - Streams abstraction

Posted on: 2008-01-31

This article explains what are stream handlers and how they simplify PHP developers lives by allowing PHP applications to easily read and write data from containers, like remote Web pages or e-mail messages, as if they were files.

A real world example is presented to demonstrate how you can access messages in a POP3 mailbox and how it can be used to automatically process messages from the site users requesting support.

The article also presents more examples of cool stream handlers classes submitted to the PHPClasses site by several authors.

Unrelated to this topic, the PHPClasses site is announcing the availability of a Twitter activity stream that may be used to keep track in a single place of the submissions like: the latest classes, reviews, blog posts and trackbacks.

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73. Top 10 PHP Programming Innovators of 2007

Posted on: 2007-12-20

The PHP Classes site has introduced a new ranking that aims to distinguish the developers that have submitted to the site the most innovative PHP components in each year.

This article also mentions the latest enhancements to the PHP professionals directory, like the professional profile page access statistics that are now sent also by e-mail.

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