The Zend Certification Exam is a step in the right direction for PHP developers looking to enhance their resume and prove their skills. It is becoming accepted by recruiters worldwide and in some cases, demanded by corporations seeking employees. Achieving this certification is no easy task, though. It requires working experience with PHP, as well [...]
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Will Fitch
Apr 24
|22:43
PHP 5.3 introduces a much requested feature for object-oriented programmers: namespaces. At the time of this writing, version 5.3 of PHP was in development, but is planned on being released in the near future. One of the purposes object-oriented programming is to remove ambiguous development and data access items. This basically means identifying common functionality [...]
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Will Fitch
Apr 23
|21:40
With the increasing use of web services and communications via HTTP, XML has become an industry standard for sending and receiving data among systems. Every language seems to have multiple ways to parse XML, each more complicated than the other. This presents a problem for developers. The majority of the time, developers need to read/write [...]
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Will Fitch
Mar 27
|23:05
I have finally got my new servers! I am still in the process of configuration, but this is the basic setup: Web / Mail Server Dual-core Xeon 2 GHz 8GB of RAM RHEL 5 64-bit Database Server Dual-core Xeon 2 GHz 2GB of RAM (I know, it will eventually get upgraded) RHEL 5 64-bit This [...]
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Will Fitch
Mar 27
|22:55
The zip code web service will be under maintenance until April 3rd. I am completing a total overhaul on my blog, so please hang in there with me.
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