Dallas-area residents Cali Lewis and her producer/husband Neal Campbell spoke to attendees of WordCamp Dallas last Saturday, telling them of their struggles and dreams launching GeekBrief.tv, how they use WordPress to administer several blogs and their plans for their upcoming Big Trip. My takeaway from this session is twofold: Neal spoke about his “laser-like” determination to [...] ... Original Post Dallas-area residents Cali Lewis and her producer/husband Neal Campbell spoke to attendees of W ... Tags: neal campbell, wordcamp, geekbrief, wordpress, php Less

Original Post Tags: paul reinheimer, php, php|architect, sean coates Related posts PRO::PHP Newscast for 2008/01/24 (0) P3: 2008.02.07 (0) P3: 2008.03.20 (0) Newscast for December 8, 2007 (0) Newscast for 2007.12.20 (0) ... Original Post Tags: paul reinheimer, php, php|architect, sean coates Related posts PRO::PHP Newscast for 2008/01/24 (0) P3: 2008.02.07 (0) P3: 2008.03.20 (0) Newscast for December 8, 2007 (0) Newscast for 2007.12.20 (0) ... Tags: php, paul reinheimer, sean coates, php|architect, php|architect's pro php podcast Less

WordCamp Dallas‘ 2nd session came from John Pozadzides, who gave the session entitled 45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog. (Despite anything you may hear on the video, I later ruled that, because John spent extra time answering questions from the audience, that he actually was successful in presenting all 45 tips within 45 minutes.) Toward [...] ... Original Post WordCamp Dallas‘ 2nd session came from John Pozadzides, who gave the session entitled 45 Ways to Power Up Your Blog. (Despite anything you m ... Tags: all podcasts, php, wordcamp, john pozadzides, wordpress podcast Less

Chris Jones and Kuassi Mensah, Oracle's dynamic duo for evangelizing Oracle and dynamic languages, provide an update. Less

Mixed topics today Adobe works with Google, Yahoo and others to make Flash apps crawlable. Reddit.com open sources their codebase "Smart" robots.txt files - do you use them? Bruce Eckel article on concurrent Python with Twisted Railo - open source ColdFusion Cognifty - new PHP framework Upcoming conferences - Ruby Hoedown, CodeStock, PHPWorks Follow WebDevRadio on twitter (http://twitter.com/webdevradio) Visit http://www.webdevjobs.com for web development job listings WebDevRadio on Twitter :: Follow WebDevRadio on Twitter! WebDevRadio FriendFeed :: Join the WebDevRadio room on FriendFeed! PHP Job Hunter Handbook :: Buy my new book for PHP Job Hunters Cognifty.com :: New PHP framework Ruby Hoedown :: Ruby Hoedown in Alabama Aug 8,9 Codestock :: Codestock conference in Knoxville, TN August 9 Concurrent Python article :: Article from Bruce Eckel on Twisted, Python and Flex Railo :: The alternative CFML engine Lovable Loser :: Music provided by Bob Maus Smart Robots :: Article on how to program your robots.txt file for search engine crawlers File Download (29:17 min / 23 MB) Less

duration 17:46 In issue #19 we speak with Michael Boyink of Boyink Interactive, who provides Internet consulting and design to clients of all sizes. Michael is known for his online ExpressionEngine training both on his site, and his EE training site, Train-EE.com. This interview covers the basics of building a site with ExpressionEngine, a commercial Content Management System {CMS}. We also discuss site architecture, specifically for ExpressionEngine. ExpressionEngine is a content management system, designed by EllisLab. It is available in a free “Core Version”, and in both “Personal” and “Commercial” versions after paying a one-time fee. The current version is 1.6.3. Version 2.0 has been announced for “some time in the summer of 2008″. ExpressionEngine is intended to be a simple, yet powerful content management system; for instance, it requires no knowledge of PHP, (but allows you to use it, if you want) and has extensive online documentation and a very active community of users and developers, with regular participation of the company’s lead programmers and other key personnel. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT… This interview is the first in our re-design series over at Creative Component. Follow the blog as we go through a very public site design. Less

duration 17:46 In issue #19 we speak with Michael Boyink of Boyink Interactive, who provides Internet consulting and design to clients of all sizes. Michael is known for his online ExpressionEngine training both on his site, and his EE training site, Train-EE.com. This interview covers the basics of building a site with ExpressionEngine, a commercial Content Management System {CMS}. We also discuss site architecture, specifically for ExpressionEngine. ExpressionEngine is a content management system, designed by EllisLab. It is available in a free “Core Version”, and in both “Personal” and “Commercial” versions after paying a one-time fee. The current version is 1.6.3. Version 2.0 has been announced for “some time in the summer of 2008″. ExpressionEngine is intended to be a simple, yet powerful content management system; for instance, it requires no knowledge of PHP, (but allows you to use it, if you want) and has extensive online documentation and a very active community of users and developers, with regular participation of the company’s lead programmers and other key personnel. SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT… This interview is the first in our re-design series over at Creative Component. Follow the blog as we go through a very public site design. Less

Almost everyday, I do something with WordPress, particular with themes. That’s because I like to mess around with it, experiment and really dive into all it has to offer. For most of us, we upload this to a web host, create a dummy account or dummy folder and work from it there. I do that a fair bit but sometimes, you just don’t want to FTP in and out. Who knows, sometimes your Internet connection may be down or you just want to unplug while you get things done for a while. But how do you unplug when your work is online?  Hmm…. Why, run a web server on your own computer of course! I love, love, love using Uniform Server for my own development because compared to other methods, it is super easy and always works - at least for me. Never failed. I have been getting my hands dirty with PHP sites since 2002 and working with WordPress since 2003-2004. Ever since, I’m always on the lookout for good packages to run a web server on my own computer so it would be easier to work on scripts before taking them live. If you ever tried manually installing Apache, PHP and Linux on your computer you’d know that it is truly geeky. A throwback to those school days when the computer was still purely text (and the green screen you know?) Ugh. I don’t want to learn to run a web server or manage a database just so I can develop a theme.  That’s why Uniform Server is a beautiful thing. It is small enough you can run it directly from your USB stick. Yup. Take your work with you - no Internet required. It’s also amazingly easy to run. Just download the package, run the setup. Double click a file to start the server and voila! Instant server. Installing WordPress now becomes super easy too. No FTP - just copy your files over and set up the database as usual. Piece of cake. Try it you’ll fall in love with it. Check out the video. You’ll see how I get the server running. http://media.techbasedmarketing.com/video/uniform-server2.flv   Share This Less

Brian was kind enough to review both of his presentations which go in to great detail about the scaling issues he's faced both with DealNews.com and the Phorum forum software project (which recently turned 10 years old!) Phorum :: Brian's Phorum project, one of the stalwarts of the web forum scene. :) Brian Moon's blog :: Brian's weblog File Download (54:18 min / 36 MB) Less

Brian was kind enough to review both of his presentations which go in to great detail about the scaling issues he's faced both with DealNews.com and the Phorum forum software project (which recently turned 10 years old!) Phorum :: Brian's Phorum project, one of the stalwarts of the web forum scene. :) Brian Moon's blog :: Brian's weblog Presentation slides :: Brian's presentation slides from the MySQL User Conference File Download (54:18 min / 36 MB) Less

Got a chance to talk to Sigurd Magnusson from the SilverStripe CMS project last week. Sigurd was kind enough to answer some questions about the project's history, current status as an open source project and some upcoming features. We touched a bit on code testing and some other stuff towards the end as well. SilverStripe :: SilverStripe CMS home page File Download (15:28 min / 10 MB) Less

Got a chance to talk to Sigurd Magnusson from the SilverStripe CMS project last week. Sigurd was kind enough to answer some questions about the project's history, current status as an open source project and some upcoming features. We touched a bit on code testing and some other stuff towards the end as well. SilverStripe :: SilverStripe CMS home page File Download (15:28 min / 10 MB) Less

I had a chance to catch up with the Symfony guys at the MySQL User Conference a few days ago. We get some background on the Symfony project, and a glimpse as to where things are going in the near future. This was my first 'from the floor' recording - I think the levels are *OK*, but please bear with me - Fabien sounded better in person :) I think I got a small 'exclusive/breaking news' at the time, but I wasn't able to get the podcast up until now. Symfony :: Symfony Project home page File Download (10:44 min / 7 MB) Less

I had a chance to catch up with the Symfony guys at the MySQL User Conference a few days ago. We get some background on the Symfony project, and a glimpse as to where things are going in the near future. This was my first 'from the floor' recording - I think the levels are *OK*, but please bear with me - Fabien sounded better in person :) I think I got a small 'exclusive/breaking news' at the time, but I wasn't able to get the podcast up until now. Symfony :: Symfony Project home page File Download (10:44 min / 7 MB) Less

Original Post Episode 012: "Security 2.0" Speaker:Chris Shiflett Topic:Security 2.0 Release Date: 04/08/2008 Welcome to The ZendCon Sessions. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2007 in Burlingame, CA. We hope you enjoy today's session as we listen to Chris Shiflett present "Security 2.0". The ZendCon Sessions are distributed under a creative commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License, Please honor this license and the rights of our authors. If you like the ZendCon Sessions, why not consider attending the next ZendCon? Dates, locations, speakers and just about anything else you would want to know about ZendCon can be found on our website, www.zendcon.com If you like this episode, check out The ZendCon Sessions homepage for more sessions. Tags: Chris Shiflett, php, security, zend, zendcon Related posts The ZendCon Sessions Episode 1:The State of PHP Security (0) The ZendCon Sessions Episode 9: QEDWiki and Zend Framework (0) The ZendCon Sessions Episode 6: Project Management Methods to Maintain IT Standards (0) The ZendCon Sessions Episode 4: IBM DB2 with PHP 5.2 and AJAX (0) The ZendCon Sessions Episode 3: PayPal: New Solutions for PHP Developers (0) Less

Original Post Episode 37: Zend Framework 1.5 Release Special Guests: Wil Sinclair and Brad Cottel Release Date: 04/03/2008 License: Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 Today we are going to talk to Wil Sinclair and Brad Cottel. Wil is the manager of the Advanced Technologies Group at Zend. We will be talking about the newly released Zend Framework 1.5. Show Notes for Episode 37 Zend Framework Do you have a question about what was discussed in today's episode? Do you have a comment about the episode or it's content? Post a comment and let us know. If you want a list of all the episodes of PHP Abstract, checkout The PHP Abstract Podcast home page. Be a part of the fun Got something to say? Have a new PHP trick you want to share? Have a new PHP product you want to share with everyone? Drop us an line at devzone@zend.com. If we like what we see, we may invite you to join. (Oh yeah, and we pay $75 per episode for those mercenaries among you who don't want to do it just to give back to the community.) PHP Abstract is on Twitter! Want immediate notice when episodes are released? Follow PHP Abstract on Twitter. Tags: Brad Cottel, php, php abstract, Wil Sinclair, zend, zend framework Related posts Zend Framework: Getting Started Screen Casts (0) The ZendCon Sessions Episode 9: QEDWiki and Zend Framework (0) PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 35: An Advanced Look at APIs (0) PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 34: Streams Abstraction (0) PHP Abstract Podcast Episode 33: Book Review: PHP Web 2.0 Mashup Projects (0) Less

Original Post Episode 011: "The Grown-Up Company's Guide to Development" Speaker:Brian DeShong Topic:The Grown-Up Company's Guide to Development Release Date: 04/01/2008 Welcome to The ZendCon Sessions. This episode of The ZendCon Sessions was recorded live at ZendCon 2007 in Burlingame, CA. We hope you enjoy today's session as we listen to Brian DeShong present "The Grown-Up Company's Guide to Development". The ZendCon Sessions are distributed under a creative commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 License, Please honor this license and the rights of our authors. If you like the ZendCon Sessions, why not consider attending the next ZendCon? Dates, locations, speakers and just about anything else you would want to know about ZendCon can be found on our website, www.zendcon.com If you like this episode, check out The ZendCon Sessions homepage for more sessions. Tags: Brian DeShong, php, zend, zendcon Related posts The ZendCon Sessions Episode 9: QEDWiki and Zend Framework (0) The ZendCon Sessions Episode 6: Project Management Methods to Maintain IT Standards (0) The ZendCon Sessions Episode 4: IBM DB2 with PHP 5.2 and AJAX (0) The ZendCon Sessions Episode 3: PayPal: New Solutions for PHP Developers (0) The ZendCon Sessions Episode 2: Best Practices for Sending Mail from PHP (0) Less

Quick notice that I'll be interviewing Patrick O'Keefe from managingonlineforums.com about his upcoming book. We've got a drawing going on for a copy of the book, and also for a copy of the 'Dreamweaver 8 - Missing Manual' book. Send a question to me for Patrick about online communities via comments@webdevradio.com to be entered in to the drawings. Get your entries in by next Friday morning (April 11, 2008). In this episode I misspoke and referenced Patrick's book as 'Managine Online Communities' - I apologize for the discrepancy. Managing Online Forums :: New book about online community building Michael Kimsal blog :: My blog - post about PDO Music from Bob Maus :: Bob Maus music used in this show File Download (13:04 min / 11 MB) Less