Josh Sharp

At the moment, our company is looking for another junior web developer.

Months before the iPhone was released, the web was on fire with hype and speculation.

I've just been browsing the PHP6 meeting minutes to see if anything exciting is coming up in the next release.

I think it's safe to say that a lot of us think big.

Just a quick tip — hopefully this will help anyone having the same issue as I was.

For those of you who aren't aware, Apache provides a very nifty module called mod_rewrite which (can you guess?)

This one has always had me wondering how everyone else did it, so I figured what better way to find out than to put up a quick poll.

Well after the last post on this topic, it seems like frameworks are one of those topics that divide the PHP community.

Now, if you're an open-source developer, you probably break into a sweat whenever working with Microsoft products is mentioned.

Good grief.

I wanted to share with you a couple of points I learnt while at the conference.

Web Directions South 07 was my first ever web conference, and what an excellent introduction it was.

There are plenty of tutorials around on how to create shiny web 2.0 style buttons, but I thought I'd lend my two cents on the method I use.

Web applications are becoming increasingly common.

Web-two-point-oh.

A very nifty feature of PHP 5 is the ability to create dynamic or "magical" functions.

I've been exploring Facebook for the last month or so, and I must confess I'm a little bit hooked on the whole social networking thing – it did start as Web 2.0 research though, honest.

My esteemed colleague Tristan Kenney (possibly NSFW) and I will be attending Web Directions South in Sydney this year.

Hello.

Zend are the company behind the development of PHP itself, as well as a lot of professional PHP tools, such as the Zend Optimiser, which optimises and caches code (as the name implies).