As a followup to my previous article on Comet, php|architect just published my second article on real-time data: “Real-Time Data, New School Style”. Get it from the source.
On Thursday (28th july) Symfony2 will be officially released as stable. To celebrate this, King Foo will be organizing a launch party in Leuven. If you are a PHP developer and care (or just curious) about Symfony, come and join us at Bar Esperança. It’s on the second floor, right...
php|architect has published my article about combining jQuery with Zend_Json_Server into a simple monitoring dashboard to showcase JSON-RPC, a protocol using remote procedure calls, a bit like XML-RPC did. The powerful combination of both Javascript and the Zend_Json_Server component enables you to create responsive apps with near real-time data.
I am happy to announce that our book on building Zend Framework Web Services (published by PHP|Architect) is finally out! More info can be found here and you can grab a copy here. Enjoy (I hope) !
Last Friday I presented a talk on Comet and PHP during the official track of the Dutch PHP Conference 2011. Since Slideshare did not convert my slides as it should, I decided to add the links in the slides here… for your convenience. You can also download the full OpenOffice...
We needed a somewhat more advanced Excel file generation toolset for one of our customers and decided to take Ilia Alshanetsky’s Excel extension for PHP for a spin. The extension exposes LibXL‘s power. LibXL allows for generating and editing XLS files, and extracting data from them. There are some code...
The recording of a webinar I gave about “Using Jenkins/Hudson for Continuous Builds” is available online at Zend’s webinar page. Jenkins, the successor of Hudson, can be used to continuously build and deploy your code and database upgrades. Continuous builds can be used to have snapshots of a work in...
Yesterday, I tried a first attempt at presenting some info on ‘Building Web Services with Zend Framework’. Feedback is collected here and the slideshow is embedded below. Building Web Services with Zend Framework (PHP Benelux meeting 20100713 Vlissingen) View more presentations from King Foo.