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Developers: You Need to Attend. No Excuses!

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Day Camp 4 Developers

The one and only Cal Evans (twitter account) has put together an amazing group of five speakers to do an 100% online conference for developers to help improve their “soft skills”.  We all know you have the chops to code but do you have the skills to keep your career on the right path?  Five speakers will talk about everything from your résumé to your open source career.  It’s really something you can not miss.  Why?  Because there are five fabulous speakers, it’s all online and the recordings will be downloadable later, and its CHEAP!   Only $35!  Even if you can’t make it you should buy the ticket to watch the talks later.  If you don’t and miss out, the video downloads will cost more than the real ticket.  So no Excuses!

So don’t wait… go and register!

Creating Filler Content with Zend Framework

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Need filler content for your Zend Framework (ZF) application? Most clients never give the developer copy up front so it’s always hard show what the site is to look like without some random text. At the beginning of a new application when you are mocking up the html and layout, I like to use static views. I basically create a full static site with Lorem Ipsum content. I hated copying text over and over so I decided to create a quick view helper that will generate the content for you on the fly. You can find the view helper on github. Currently there are four different ways to generate the filler content.

  1. Paragraphs
  2. Words
  3. Bytes
  4. and Lists

You can find more information on optional parameters and how to use the view helper at github.

After the Deadline (AtD)

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Yesterday I had the great opportunity to here Raphael Mudge the creator of AtD present After the Deadline at DC PHP.  Below is a recording of the talk.  I hope to write some more about AtD after I play around with it more.

Review: Zend Framework: Surviving The Deep End, Chapters 1 & 2

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If you are looking for a Zend Framework (ZF) book and don’t want to spend money then you should check out this new free ZF book called “Zend Framework: Surviving the Deep End” by Pádraic Brady. The book is free distributed in PDF and HTML formats under creative commons at http://www.survivethedeepend.com/. As of today there are only two chapters, the Introduction and The Architecture of Zend Framework Applications.

Chapter one is pretty much an overview of frameworks including Zend Framework and 13 bullet points why you should consider Zend Framework. Very informative and the bullets get right to the point. Some minor tweaking and this chapter could possibly be a pretty good white paper for customers thinking about deploying ZF.

Chapter two get down to the nitty-gritty of frameworks and a little bit of history behind design patterns. A topic that can be very confusing and controversial between developers. Chapter two ends with a quick overview of the Model-View-Controller design pattern in which ZF uses.

Overall the two chapters were very informative.  I am looking forward to the rest of the chapters, including the full chapter about Models in MVC and some in depth ZF Code.  I suggest if you are looking to learn more about Zend Framework you add this to your list of bookmarks as it will be growing regularly.

ZendCon08 Slides – September 15th (Tutorials)

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Here are the slides and talks from ZendCon08 for September 15th (Pre-Conf Tutorials).

If your session is listed but has no link to your slides feel free to send me an email at ZendCon08Slides@kapustabrothers.com.

Tuesday’s are here, Wednesday’s are here, and Thursdays are here.

  • PHP Developer Best Practices (SlideShare) – Matthew Weier O’Phinney &Mike Naberezny
  • Introduction to Object Oriented PHP – Marcus Börger
  • PHP Security Crash Course – Part 1 – Kevin Schroeder
  • Zend PHP5 Certification Crash Course – Part 1 – Christian Wenz