Advanced PHP Programming: George Schlossnagle

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06.09.04

Advanced PHP Programming: George Schlossnagle
Been meaning to say this for a while now but George Schlossnagle's book - Advanced PHP Programming is excellent. This isn't meant as an extensive review but rather some thoughts, in reverse order to the books contents page...

- The coverage of Zend internals and extending PHP is the best I've seen (PHP has been badly in need of this) and was my reason for buying it. Not only is the "how" of extending PHP explained; there's also detailed discussion of the Zend engine, the PHP execution lifecycle and so on, I believe based on George's experiences with apd. Even if you're not planning on writing your own PHP extension, there's some valuable insight which can help influence the design of your PHP apps, particularly where performance is concerned. Knowledge of C is assumed (otherwise it would be a very big book), so be warned, but think George has succeeded in proving this misappropriation of the Tao Te Ching wrong (someone please kill it). While I'm on the subject of PHP extensions, there is another book, Building Custom PHP Extensions serves as a useful reference (probably not updated for PHP5 yet though) but lacks insight and explanations.
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Reactivity Seeks To Make Web Services Development More Secure
Reactivity, a supplier of appliances “that power rapid, secure deployment of mission-critical Web services,” unveiled the Reactivity Gateway-D [JGK1], “the industry's first desktop XML firewall appliance specifically designed to boost the productivity of Web services developers.”

Reactivity provided these details:

The Reactivity Gateway-D delivers all the functionality of Reactivity's flagship XML Firewall in a PC-based appliance that provides the easiest way for Web services developers to leverage the functionality and services of the XML Firewall while creating and testing XML Web services.
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Database developers and administrators gain tool for Linux enterprises
Database tool vendor AquaFold today announced the availability of its latest version of Aqua Data Studio. The software gives database administrators a single interface to all major relational databases and allows them to service heterogeneous database environments, a growing concern for database developers and administrators managing enterprise systems today.

"AquaFold's customer base is about 10 - 15 percent Linux," says president Niels Gron. He adds, "We enable companies to migrate among operating systems on their own terms -- database administrators can use our tool across all platforms and move a department or group of departments to Linux, using a single common interface."
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.Net course taught over internet
A new videoconferencing course for .Net developers who live outside the main centres kicks off tonight.

The New Zealand .Net User Group is aiming the course at developers who can't easily attend user group meetings in larger cities. Organiser Chris Auld says about 50 developers from Australia and New Zealand have signed up for the course, after 170 applications were received.
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Are developers stealing code?
Developers who keep a copy of code that they wrote in one job and then reuse it for a subsequent employer seem blithely unaware of the legal implications

Most software developers regard 'code-borrowing' -- reusing existing software in their own work -- as an acceptable practice, despite the legal minefield it could create for their employers, says research due to be published later this week.
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IBM zAAPs zSeries With Java
IBM Corp. is betting that a new technology called zAAP will give Java developers a compelling reason to write applications on the mainframe.

Although the company has offered zSeries editions of its WebSphere product line since 1998, a widespread perception that developing applications on big boxes is not cost-effective has kept most Java developers from using them, said Les Wyman, an IBM systems architect for the zSeries. Many customers ran back-end databases on the mainframe, but they chose to offload the development process to smaller, front-end boxes, he said.
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