Enterprise PHP

How Many Perl, PHP, Python and Ruby Developers Are There ?

2009-06-22T07:23:43Z

Davey Shafik posted recently a very interesting article making the case for PHP. It's not about comparing programming languages capabilities, but especially concerning access to people and market penetration. Davey pointed to an old post that gives an estimation of Perl, Php, Python and Ruby Programmers availability according to most popular search engines. I updated the estimation so we can have most accurate results. The table below illustrates the results found, I have just truncated Bing results to 1M to have more readable chart, after all I don't believe there are 50M resumes indexed by Microsoft - and that's another topic.

	PHP	Perl	Ruby	Python
Google	788000	57000	14100	26300
Yahoo	541000	377000	41500	82400
Bing (MSN)	59700000	10200	18400	4900

Programmer's Resumes in Search Engines

Quality Assurance in PHP Projects

2009-06-15T12:51:40Z

Stefan Priebsch and Sebastian Bergmann, are writing a book on "Quality Assurance in PHP Projects". The book will be published in English and German at the same time later this year. The idea for the book is that Stefan Priebsch and Sebastian write the introductory as well as the concluding chapters while other authors contribute case studies for the middle part of the book.

An excellent idea that will provide amazing information and experience in quality assurance within any PHP project. It's interesting to see how different developers approach differently quality assurance in their PHP projects. The book target intermediate and advanced developers who are looking for Unit Testing best practice to help making stable and successful projects.

No need to mention that Sebastian Bergmann is the creator of the PHPUnit in addition to many others open source tools. Sebastian Bergmann and Stefan Priebsch are both Co-Founders and Principal Consultants with thePHP.cc that we have previously announced here. You can find abstracts of some case studies on the project website.

Zend Released Zend Server and Zend Server Community Edition

2009-04-08T08:29:52Z

Zend Technologies announced today the availability of Zend Server for High Performance, Reliable, and Secure Deployment of PHP-Based Web Applications, in addition to the FREE Zend Server community edition for Developers and PHP Application Users.

The new Zend Server is a complete Web application solution that includes PHP, native install, an enhanced code accelerator, and advanced monitoring and problem diagnostics for applications designed for deployment on a single server. In addition, Zend Server automates software updates, hot fixes, and security patches on both Linux (native RPM and DEB based repositories) and Microsoft Windows (MSI), for quick and easy installation in less than 5 minutes. Zend Server supports the most popular databases, including Oracle� Database, MySQL, and Microsoft� SQL Server, as well as leading operating systems from Red Hat Enterprise Linux and Ubuntu/Debian to Microsoft Windows Server and more.

Zend Server CE is a completely free version of Zend Server that runs on Linux, Microsoft Windows, and Mac OS X, specifically tuned to address the needs of non-critical server deployments and for developer desktops/laptops everywhere. Zend Server CE comes with the same high-performance opcode caching and easy-to-use PHP administration capabilities as the commercial Zend Server.

Zend Server Pricing starts at $1,195 for an annual product subscription. More information and download www.zend.com

thePHP.cc, Fighting the Crisis with IT Quality

2009-03-05T17:12:57Z

In times of tight budgets, quality is a key success factor to reduce risks in IT projects. Three successful IT consultants and trainers have joined forces and founded thePHP.cc, The PHP Consulting Company.

thePHP.cc helps businesses and enterprises to reduce IT costs in the long term with Open Source technologies and PHP in particular.

thePHP.cc supports their clients in improving their employee's qualification to overcome skills shortages.

The three founders of thePHP.cc have long-standing experience in consulting, coaching, and training and are sought-after speakers at international IT conferences. They previously helped clients such as Cisco and Digg as well as government agencies.

Brand new knowledge base management software released - KnowledgeBase Manager Pro

2009-01-30T07:47:37Z

Website Scripts have recently released the Pro edition of their PHP Knowledge Base Manager. Knowledgebase Manager Pro is an web-based system developed to support and enhance the organizational processes of knowledge creation, storage, retrieval, transfer, and application.

It is featured with user and group management support, allows unlimited publications for your knowledgebase content, supports multiple ways of visitor feedback gathering, provides high safety of your data with built-in automatic database backup system, article versions history, and allows recovering of deleted articles. We made use of modern Ajax technology and followed Web 2.0 design and usability trends to make Knowledgebase Manager Pro knowledge base management software fast and convenient.

You can check the feature tour for more about the product features, and try out their online demo here

VS.Php 2.6 Release Focuses On The Enterprise Developer

2009-01-26T09:36:47Z

Miami, FL, January 25, 2009: Jcx.Software announced today the release of VS.Php 2.6 for Microsoft Visual Studio 2008. VS.Php is the PHP integrated development environment (IDE) for Visual Studio developers. This version includes a number of features for the enterprise developer including:

Seamless integration with Microsoft Internet Information Services 7.0 (IIS 7), which allows developers to host their PHP project on their local IIS server. VS.Php configures PHP, Fast CGI and XDebug automatically. It also provides unique configuration for each Php project hosted in IIS, allowing developers to utilize custom settings in the php.ini for each project.
Support for very large projects with over 10000+ files. VS.Php is now optimized to load large projects quickly.
Project-wide IntelliSense, providing the developer with quick access to all classes, functions, methods and constants defined in the project. VS.Php provides two tabs in the IntelliSense pop-up, one for frequently used entries and another for project wide entries.
The ability to drag and drop files within the solution view, which allows the user to quickly copy or move files within the project. Also, the user can drag files to the references node for quick access in IntelliSense for the symbols defined in the file.
The latest version of Zend Framework, Php 5 and XDebug.

Jcx.Software continues their commitment to provide the best PHP development experience for enterprise developers. "With added support for handling very large projects and project-wide IntelliSense, VS.Php is a powerful tool for enterprise developers. We are pleased to leverage Visual Studio's ability to handle very large projects in the latest version of VS.Php." said Juan Rivera, Jcx.Software Founder.

Interspire Knowledge Manager 5.0 Released

2008-10-07T08:31:36Z

Interspire have just announced the availabilty of their Knowledge Manager solution version 5.0, previously known as ActiveKB (reviewed here). Mitchell Harper, Interspire Product Manager, wrote in product announcement :

This new version marks a significant step in our product strategy, turning the product from a simple web-based, self-service FAQ system into a fully-featured, enterprise-grade knowledge management tool which can be used to reduce customer support, share company-wide knowledge and reduce staff training costs.

New features in version 5.0 include:

Microsoft SQL Server & LDAP support - Easily integrate Interspire Knowledge Manager with your existing Windows-based Active Directory network and databases.
Complete workflow support - Setup content publishing rules and processes which allow knowledge workers and their managers to efficiently publish and approve knowledge items.
Integrated news posting and syndication - Post news items, information and upcoming event details directly to the front page of your knowledge base.
Index and search inside attachments (Word, PowerPoint - XP/2003/3007, PDF, etc) - Attachments can be uploaded and are automatically indexed and can be searched through your knowledge base.
Staff contribution reports - Assign contribution quotas to knowledge works and view reports outlining their contribution in the last day, week, month or custom date range.
and many more features

You can check also our support section powered by version 4.5 of Interspire Knowledge Manager under http://support.phpmagazine.net/. Product tour and demo of Interspire Knowledge Manager 5.0 are also available.

Intruder Consulting Counts On SourceGuardian To Safeguard Its Products

2008-08-10T09:52:39Z

Intruder Consulting, a telecom company based in Mexico, relies on SourceGuardian encryption software to safeguard its VoIP products. Intruder�s aCube software was extremely vulnerable to piracy by clients who had only leased the software for a specific term or who had not bought the entire system. The PHP files and database could easily be copied to another server.

SourceGuardian secures aCube�s PHP interface to prevent clients from running the application unless they have purchased the whole system, and it encrypts the PHP files, protecting the program by locking it to specific MAC addresses. In order to avoid losing important lease revenue, Intruder is preparing to use yet another feature of SourceGuardian �to ensure that clients who bought the software on a lease term pay their leases on time, or the interface will not work anymore,� says Intruder Consulting CEO Anton Krall.

SourceGuardian, which won a North East UK Export Award in 2004, is now used by thousands of professional web developers, programmers and companies worldwide. Adrian Teasdale, founder of Inovica Ltd., the UK company that developed SourceGuardian, says, �We are very proud to have created a product that assists companies around the world in protecting their valuable intellectual property.�

ZZEE PHPExe, Compile PHP Scripts into Windows GUI Exes

2008-07-10T20:00:51Z

ZZEE has released ZZEE PHPExe 1.0 for Windows, a program that compiles PHP, HTML, Javascript and other web files into Windows GUI exes. Now programmers can rapidly develop Windows GUI applications by employing the familiar PHP web paradigm. Developers can use the same code for online and Windows applications with little or no modification.

Simple GUI interface of the compiler makes it easy to create and maintain projects. ZZEE PHPExe also integrates an encoder, so end-users see neither the compiled-in web tree, nor source of PHP, javascript and other files. The runtime which includes a webbrowser, a webserver and PHP 5 is as small as 2.1 Mb. Compiled applications run on Windows Vista / XP / 2000.

Zend And Brain Alliance Enter in Partnership For the Finnish Market

2008-06-28T08:28:29Z

Today, Zend Technologies and Brain Alliance Solutions Ltd entered into a partnership and marked the first partnership of the PHP company in Finland. The new partnership entitle Brain Alliance solutions Ltd to resell Zend's products and deliver Zend's PHP related training courses in the country.

Zend's products include Zend Studio for Eclipse, an integrated development environment, Zend Guard to encrypt source code written in PHP, Zend Platform which is a platform for critical and scalable web services, and Zend Core which is a certified stack of PHP.

"With partnership, we strengthen our position as a PHP focused solution provider. And we can offer larger scale of solutions and services to our customers." says Jukka Hassinen, the CEO of Brain Alliance Solutions Ltd. "It has been nice to see that the use of open source technologies such as PHP and Zend Framework has grown in Finland. Our clients have indicated their interest to get training related to PHP and Zend Framework.� says Mr. Hassinen who went to Israel to make the partnership contract with Zend together with consultant Mikko H�m�l�inen, at the same they met the one of the founders of PHP, Zeev Suraski.

Cube Evolution Chooses SourceGuardian To Protect Its Software

2008-06-24T11:35:48Z

NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, UK - June 24th, 2008 - SourceGuardian, an encryption product developed in-house by Newcastle-based Inovica Ltd., keeps Cube Evolution�s Web Content Management System from falling into the wrong hands. When Cube Evolution created its CMS software, CEO John Dudley realized the product was vulnerable to programming theft.

Any customer who purchased the system could easily see the source code and take any of the programming language. Customers could also make changes to the code that could potentially cause the product to malfunction, which could have resulted in the company�s support department becoming overwhelmed with calls.

After evaluating available encoding solutions, Cube Evolution chose SourceGuardian, which provided the company with a solution that protects its CMS software from both theft and alteration. �SourceGuardian has reassured me that my current and future ideas are safe from prying eyes, but also can be correctly licensed,� Dudley says. �It also provides me with the option of producing demonstration software, safe in the knowledge that it will only work for the specified time.�

Zend & IBM expands partnership to bring unprecedented database scalability to the PHP platform

2007-08-09T10:33:50Z

Zend announced today that they are expanding their partnership with IBM aimed at fueling the growth of production-ready PHP applications in the enterprise. The new agreement includes :

Enhanced IBM DB2 Express-C capabilities in Zend Core for IBM, the certified PHP solution from Zend Technologies
New support for DB2 Connect technology providing access to highly scalable i5/OS and z/OS DB2 data servers
Unified, single-source support for the integrated PHP and DB2 solution stack
Support for System i Linux partitions and the System i attached BladeCenter and System x Servers

To support very high workloads, Zend Core for IBM now includes DB2 Connect technology that makes it easy for customers to build enterprise class PHP applications that harness the power and scalability of DB2 hosted on IBM System z (z/OS) and System i (i5/OS ) servers.

You can read more in the Zend press release.

SendStudio NX Released and Reviewed

2007-06-25T07:14:27Z

Interspire have just released last week their popular SendStudio NX, a new version of their email marketing software with lots of new great features. Most notable new feature in this release is the ability to send unlimited email marketing campaigns with private label without any extra fees, to make it a unique complete turnkey solution, in addition to professional HTML email design templates bundled with the application package to create successful email campaigns easily.

I have installed a copy of the latest SendStudio NX at ITACTU.com website and spend two days trying all different features of the email marketing software while our team was assisting the MIX07 Paris. I find the new version very professional and complete turnkey email marketing solution, that don't require any programming knowledge to manage and send professional email campaigns.

From the beginning the install of the application is made easy with wizard, just enter the license key, database information and SendStudio is installed and ready to use. I enjoyed the help manual available with the software, very detailed at different levels: technical usage and email marketing tips. The online help make using the software too much fun, what you have to do is just to follow the steps, which are very well explained, to create and send your first email campaign.

Jcx.Software Releases Vs.PHP 2.3 For Windows Vista

2007-06-04T06:02:15Z

MIAMI, FL, JUNE 4, 2007: Jcx.Software today announces the release of VS.Php 2.3 for Visual Studio 2005, a PHP integrated development environment (IDE) for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005. VS.Php 2.3 adds support for Windows Vista and Visual Studio Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio 2005. VS.Php 2.3 new features focus in providing developers with the ability to work easily on existing PHP applications hosted on remote sites.

VS.Php 2.3 also upgraded the support for deploying local projects faster and more efficiently. It also added support for deploying files using FTP over SSL. Another key feature in VS.Php 2.3 is the ability to import projects from a remote server. The wizard lets the developer download the entire Php application from a remote server and allows working on the project locally. The developer can choose to deploy the files back to any remote server.

IBM System i Community Galvanizes Around PHP

2007-05-02T12:41:16Z

Zend Technologies, Inc., the PHP company, announced the broad adoption of Zend products by an ecosystem of independent software vendors (ISV) and customers that make up the IBM System i community. PHP, the open source development language used to create over 20 million websites, is backed by a global community of over 4.5 million developers. Attracted to its ease-of-use and flexibility, users of the flagship operating system for System i, i5/OS, are using PHP to modernize legacy applications and create new web applications.

Over the past year, Zend and IBM have worked together to make Zend's popular PHP products available for V5R3 and V5R4 versions of i5/OS. Zend Core for i5/OS is a fully tested and enhanced version of open source PHP; Zend Platform for i5/OS is a PHP production environment that improves application management and performance; and Zend Studio for i5/OS is a PHP Integrated Development Environment (IDE) that includes all of the components necessary to support the lifecycle of PHP applications created on i5/OS.