Personal blog of Yzmir Ramirez

In this post on his blog, Mauricio Cuenca shows how can we have several Zend Framework projects living on a same web space in a shared host.

The PHP Development team announced this morning that PHP 5.3 RC1 is ready for public consumption. Not only does PHP 5.3 include a number of basic enhancements, it has a number of new features as well!

Last November Smashing Magazine posted an article titled ’10 Advanced PHP Tips to Improve Your Programming’, which was met with many negative comments. It seems that many of the tips were either incomplete, or directly giving bad advice. To remedy this, they have asked Chris Shiflett and Sean Coates to write a rebuttal article which they have done. This new article goes into detail of each of the previous 10 points, explains the issues with the previous suggestions, and then gives solid advice on what should be done.

As you probably know by now, March 24th is Ada Lovelace day. Simply put: the day to put a little spotlight on the female tech colleague you admire most. Without the risk of looking like a suck-up, you can turn your whole blog into an ode to that someone special on your team. The idea is to write about only one person, but there we run into my main weak point: you have to pick your favorite. After thinking long and hard, I decided I just knew too many women who would deserve an ode. In this post, I’ll bend the rules a bit, and instead of one full post about one woman, I write a small section about every woman I know in the PHP community. Where known, I’ve added a link to their blogs, and if you google around a bit, I’m sure you can find a full ‘Ada’ post about each and every one of them. Since I can’t choose which I like most, I will instead order them alphabetically. This is definitely not a complete list, but just the ones that keep the highest profiles in the PHP Community

Microsoft, Ibuildings, and Leaseweb have joined forces to create a contest, and are offering some big prizes for it. To participate, you need to develop an application on Windows/IIS7 using PHP and submit it to the contest. The winners will then be announced at the closing keynote of the Dutch PHP Conference 2009. Only catch is that it is open to programmers in Europe/UK only.

So the adage, “Sometimes newer is not always better,” is true when it comes to software. I find myself getting used to older software and don’t necessarily need all the newer features.

Sometimes I buy a version or two older than the newest to save some money, but that’s another article.

Now obviously Windows has a built-in extraction tool, but I will harken back to WinZip days…that’s why I go here to download the older version of Winzip – Version 7 is my favorite.

You can goto Oldversion.com and download a whole-host of older applications.

For those people who have ever used mysqldump to backup a database, you may have seen all sorts of weird comments like /*!40101 SET NAMES utf8 */; or /*!40000 ALTER TABLE `members` DISABLE KEYS */; — Ever wonder what those mean and how you might use them? Read on to find out.

Jeffrey Way has been making a series of video articles to teach people how to get started with PHP. He has focused on having short 10 minute episodes that are easy for beginners to digest, and has published 13 of these videos so far.

The folks behind the Eclipse PDT IDE have been working hard to get PHP 5.3 support built into the editor. They are getting very close to the goal, but could use some help from the community in writing some tests.

CampaignMonitor has a great article they host summarizing the CSS in email clients.  If you ever find yourself needing to know what CSS styles you can or cannot use when creating emails this is the definitive source.  They update this page often as new versions of the browsers are released.