Category Archives: PHP

Thematic, A WordPress Theme Framework

By Patrick Reilly | Published: November 24, 2009
Thematic is a free, open-source, highly extensible, search-engine optimized WordPress Theme Framework featuring 13 widget-ready areas, grid-based layout samples, styling for popular plugins, and a whole community behind it. It’s perfect for beginner bloggers and WordPress development professionals. http://themeshaper.com/thematic/
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WordPress Wins CMS Award

By Patrick Reilly | Published: November 18, 2009
For the very first time WordPress has been awarded the Overall Best Open Source CMS Award in the 2009 Open Source CMS Awards. This truly marks a paradigm shift in the public perception of WordPress, from blog software to full-featured CMS. No small contest, the Open Source CMS Awards received over 12,000 nominations and more [...]
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Lunch 2.0 with Bing!

By Patrick Reilly | Published: November 9, 2009
Well, it’s official. The folks over at SHIFT Communications, especially Marie Williams and team, have done it again… Done what you ask? Well, I’ll tell you — they have thrown a wonderful get together known to Bay Area folks fondly as Lunch 2.0. It was over at Powerset’s sweet office and was a wonderful chance [...]
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Microsoft Bing Party | Web 2.0 Summit 2009 | ZendCon 2009 | Ruby Skye

By Patrick Reilly | Published: October 22, 2009
So, Microsoft Bing had a huge party at San Francisco’s famed venue, Ruby Skye. Some of us, from the PHP Community were fortunate enough; to attend this exclusive party…  and as if that wasn’t enough in and of it’s self. Josh Holmes, and John Coggeshall thought hey, I have an idea –  (let’s take this [...]
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Monitoring Gearman over Telnet port 4730

By Patrick Reilly | Published: August 6, 2009
So, the only way to monitor the Gearman daemon is via telnet to port 4730. The current monitoring supported commands are really fairly basic. I could not locate any documentation on the support commands so had to, “literally look at the code to figure out the supported commands” (the below command documentation is copied from [...]
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Join the PHP Evangelism Team

By Patrick Reilly | Published: October 17, 2007
As, fellow members of the PHP Development Team we are all called to be developer evangelists to the PHP Community. So, what is our cause, our reason for being… how are we trying to change the “Web 2.0″ world? The goal of the PHP Evangelism Team is to bring together the right people, resources and [...]
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Why PHP?

By Patrick Reilly | Published: February 13, 2007
So, yesterday after reading Ben Ramsey’s post, “Business Case for PHP” I decided to join Stuart Herbert ’s Google Group for developing a business case for PHP. I am very interested in the outcome of the group’s research: * Concerns about PHP being open-source * Security concerns about PHP itself * Security concerns about software [...]
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Zend Framework Project Teams Need You

By Patrick Reilly | Published: February 13, 2007
Most components and subprojects need volunteers to help with documentation, unit test coverage, code reviews, improving integration with other ZF components, and enhancing architecture and design for the purpose of improving extensibility and ease of use with new components. If you see a subject area or component that interests you, please contact any project members [...]
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OSCON 2007 Call for Papers

By Patrick Reilly | Published: February 7, 2007
So, I submitted my 90 minute conference session proposal entitled, ” Improving Performance by Profiling PHP Applications”. I think I am going to focus on Advanced PHP Debugger (APD) for this session. George Schlossnagle was kind enough to offer to help explain APD; and the design decision behind it being an analog of C’s gprof [...]
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Zend Framework Preview 0.7.0

By Patrick Reilly | Published: January 19, 2007
Zend Framework is a simple, straightforward, open-source software framework for PHP 5 designed to eliminate the tedious details of coding and let you focus on the big picture. Its strength is in its highly-modular MVC design, making your code more reusable and easier to maintain. Although it’s currently in preview release, take a look—you may [...]
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