142. Featured articles about your classes
Updated on: 2012-02-09
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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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.



141. PHP 2010 review and 2011 expectations, PHP bug fix releases and Chrome OS relevance - Lately in PHP podcast episode 8
Updated on: 2015-04-04
Posted on: 2011-01-31
On episode 8 of the Lately in PHP podcast, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert review the most important happenings of the PHP world in 2010 and what they expect for 2011.
They also comment on the latest PHP bug fix releases and discuss why Chrome OS matters to PHP developers and Web application developers in general.
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They also comment on the latest PHP bug fix releases and discuss why Chrome OS matters to PHP developers and Web application developers in general.



140. Does Google Chrome OS matter?
Updated on: 2011-01-25
Posted on: 2011-01-25
If you are a Web developer that is a question that you probably have been asking yourself since Google Chrome OS buzz started.
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139. PHP Zeitgeist 2010: What PHP developers have been looking for in the last year?
Updated on: 2013-01-03
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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The PHP Zeitgeist 2010 edition was just published. This article presents an analysis about PHP developers search trends during 2010.



138. 2010: Yet another great year for PHP
Updated on: 2012-02-09
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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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.



137. Hardware Accelerated PHP, PHP 5.3.4, PHP 5.4 hold off, mod_PageSpeed and AJAX 2 - Lately in PHP podcast episode 7
Updated on: 2014-02-15
Posted on: 2010-11-30
On this episode of Lately in PHP podcast, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert discuss the proposal of using video card GPUs to accelerate PHP.
They also comment on the upcoming release of PHP 5.3.4 expected for mid-December, as well the PHP 5.4 hold off debate that has been going on due mostly to the lack of consensus between core developers.
Apart from those PHP issues, they also comment of accelerating Web pages using Google mod_PageSpeed Apache 2 module, as well about the new features of XMLHttpRequest Level 2 JavaScript object to implement AJAX applications.
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They also comment on the upcoming release of PHP 5.3.4 expected for mid-December, as well the PHP 5.4 hold off debate that has been going on due mostly to the lack of consensus between core developers.
Apart from those PHP issues, they also comment of accelerating Web pages using Google mod_PageSpeed Apache 2 module, as well about the new features of XMLHttpRequest Level 2 JavaScript object to implement AJAX applications.



136. AJAX 2: New possibilities offered by XMLHttpRequest level 2 specification
Updated on: 2010-11-23
Posted on: 2010-11-23
AJAX applications are often implemented using the XMLHttpRequest JavaScript object.
XMLHttpRequest is getting a new specification named Level 2. This post is just a quick note about another interesting article about what new specification brings and how you can take advantage of it in your AJAX applications.
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XMLHttpRequest is getting a new specification named Level 2. This post is just a quick note about another interesting article about what new specification brings and how you can take advantage of it in your AJAX applications.



135. Accelerate Web Pages Automatically using Google Mod_PageSpeed: Unusual Site Speedup Techniques Part 4
Updated on: 2010-11-17
Posted on: 2010-11-17
After several months of development, Google announces a stable release of mod_pagespeed, an Apache 2 Web server module that can automatically optimize the Web pages that are served by Apache without any changes to the actual scripts that generate those Web pages.
This article explains in more detail what is mod_pagespeedup and how you can use it to improve the speed of serving your site Web pages.
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This article explains in more detail what is mod_pagespeedup and how you can use it to improve the speed of serving your site Web pages.



134. Unusual Site Speedup Techniques debate, Named parameters and Annotations - Lately in PHP podcast episode 6
Updated on: 2010-11-01
Posted on: 2010-10-31
In this episode, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert discuss several unusual site speedup techniques presented in recent articles of the PHPClasses site blog.
They also discuss the (non-)inclusion of new PHP features discussed by PHP core developers like having named parameters in function calls and the support of Java-like annotations in PHP code.
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They also discuss the (non-)inclusion of new PHP features discussed by PHP core developers like having named parameters in function calls and the support of Java-like annotations in PHP code.



133. Accelerate scripts running multiple tasks in parallel using asynchronous programming: Unusual Site Speedup Techniques: Part 3
Updated on: 2015-01-18
Posted on: 2010-10-28
Asynchronous programming allows developers to write faster code by running multiple parallel tasks at the same time.
This contrasts with the traditional synchronous programming on which programs perform a task and do nothing else besides waiting for the task to finish before proceeding to the next task.
This article explains better what is asynchronous programming and how you can implement it in PHP to develop code that executes tasks much faster.
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This contrasts with the traditional synchronous programming on which programs perform a task and do nothing else besides waiting for the task to finish before proceeding to the next task.
This article explains better what is asynchronous programming and how you can implement it in PHP to develop code that executes tasks much faster.


