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PHP/LAMP trends for 2011

It’s 1st jan 2011, time for predictions and trends As economic trend is upward, 2011 holds many promises and everyone is hoping that it won’t turn us down.

Opensource  technology has been playing important world in aspects of computing — from personal to enterprise.

In my opinion, we should see following technology ( opensource or otherwise )  related . . . → Read More: PHP/LAMP trends for 2011

PHP IDE – Eclipse Vs. Zend Studio

Many many not know that Eclipse has PHP version of IDE and it is pretty nice. In fact, Zend team has helped develop it. If you haven’t tried it, you should.

Zend also offeres its own veresion of IDE, which is called Zend Studio, which is also based on “Eclipse” platform only.

Elipse is . . . → Read More: PHP IDE – Eclipse Vs. Zend Studio

PHP in the Cloud

Of course, PHP is not behind in joining the “Cloud Wagon”. It’s about time.   If I have to choose two hottest technologies for next 5 years. They are going to be “Cloud” and “Mobile”. And combination of both will be killer one.   PHP has made a good start in Cloud and much more to . . . → Read More: PHP in the Cloud

PHP Design patterns

For many (Including myself ), “Design Patterns” or “System Design” is one of the favorite topics. It is core of any application. One mistake made in design phase can be very expensive at later stage. It requires good amount of experiene and skills to design a good application/system. And book doesn’t teach everything.

 

Definition

. . . → Read More: PHP Design patterns

Web 2.0 runs on JQuery

It won’t be exaggeration to say that most of web 2.0 websites run on jQuery! Seriously, they do !

All Ajax developers know and love jQuery. It is also favourite for new learners as it is so easy to pick up and follow.

Pretty amazing that a framework introduced just 3 yeras back ( . . . → Read More: Web 2.0 runs on JQuery

Migrating WordPress to new server

You never know, when you need to do it. You want smooth transition, if ever need it.

I wanted to setup my development environment for wordpress publishing system. My both servers were Linux. Following steps assume both servers are  Unix/Linux.

Here are few things and step to keep in mind.

Make tar ball of . . . → Read More: Migrating WordPress to new server

WordPress – most flexible and powerful CMS out there

Yes, it may be redundant to mention it. All know about it

Still it is worth mentioning that out of all CMS out there, wordpress is one the most  powerful, fast and flexible CMS.

Not to mention the VERY large developer community available around wordpress, which keep the magic going on.

The plugin . . . → Read More: WordPress – most flexible and powerful CMS out there

SugarCRM – nifty opensource CRM package

This blog will be incomplete without covering CRM.

When we talk about CRM, it is such a wide topic to cover that it deserves a separate blog on just CRM and that may be also  not sufficient.

CRM covers many functions of business and in fact, people may interpret meaning of CRM differently

This . . . → Read More: SugarCRM – nifty opensource CRM package

Facebook connect with Auth component of CakePHP

Facebook is everywhere, isn’t it ?

Slowly, it is becoming source for single sign-on as more and more website try to authenticate using Facebook. It is surely convinient and provides safer experience for users as they don’t have to create account on every website. Other providers like Google and Yahoo also have same feature.  . . . → Read More: Facebook connect with Auth component of CakePHP

CodeIgniter – Good light-weight LAMP web development framework

CodeIgniter is another good PHP Web application framework and this blog will be covering it in detail. I have shorted few good  MVC frameworks for PHP and CodeIgniter is one of them.

About CodeIgniter

CodeIgniter is an open source web application framework for use in building dynamic web sites with PHP. “Its goal . . . → Read More: CodeIgniter – Good light-weight LAMP web development framework