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115. Design contest second turn

Posted on: 2010-01-18

The PHPClasses site design contest moved on to a second turn. This article explains how it works and what can you do to help picking the best design for the site.

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114. PHP User Groups ranking

Posted on: 2010-01-14

The PHP Users Group ranking is an initiative that is aimed to highlight PHP user groups that have more active members.

This article explains how it works and what can you do to lead your local PHP user group to have more and better activities for the benefit of the PHP community in general.

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113. PHP Zeitgeist: What PHP developers have been looking for in the last decade?

Posted on: 2010-01-06

PHP Zeitgeist is a new initiative to show the trends on what PHP developers have been looking for year after year. It is somewhat similar to Google End of the Year Zeitgeist.

This article explains in detail what is this initiative and how you can take advantage of the information that it provide to keep up with the latest trends in the PHP development market and improve your career.

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112. Site design contest results announced

Posted on: 2010-01-04

The results of the first turn of the Design Award contest were announced.

A second turn will follow because none of the contestants got at least 50% of the votes.

This article tells about how the contest went so far and explains how the second turn will work.

It also mentions some of the upcoming site features that have been in development, now that the design contest developments have practically ended.

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111. Vote on your preferred design proposal

Posted on: 2009-12-17

The period for submit proposal for the design contest has ended. Now is time to choose on which you prefer. This article explains the design voting and commenting process.

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110. Screencast of how to create and submit a design theme proposal

Posted on: 2009-12-08

This article presents a screencast that demonstrates how to create and submit a new theme proposal for the site design contest.

It should be useful for all those willing to submit a proposal but could not understand clearly how to take the most of the design editor tool provided by the site.

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109. Site design contest is getting started

Posted on: 2009-12-01

The PHPClasses site redesign contest is finally getting started.

The deadline for submission was November 30, but by request of a few authors, it was postponed to December 15.

Meanwhile, several design proposals were submitted and available for commenting.

This article tells more about these and other details.

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108. Distributing PHP processing with Gearman

Posted on: 2009-11-23

Gearman is a tool for distributing processing jobs over one or more machines.

This article explains how to use Gearman in PHP applications to handle better the load of busy sites or applications that need to execute heavy jobs.

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107. PHP in Arabic

Posted on: 2009-11-15

The use of Arabic in Web sites has been growing in a significant way in the latest years.

This is an idiom that requires special care due to the nature of its writing.

This article presents an interview with Khaled Al-Shamaa, the leader of Ar-PHP, a project that aims to simplify the lives of developers that want to build Arabic sites using PHP.

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106. Get early access to the new site features

Posted on: 2009-10-29

The PHPClasses site is launching a new initiative to let every user know in advance about new features that are being implemented.

This article explains how you can keep up with latest features and even influence their implementation.

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