The CakeFest site as been updated to announce pre-registration and other information about CakeFest #2, which will be held in Buenos Aries, Argentina at the beginning of December.

As of this post, the speakers haven't been selected (want to give a talk? The Call for Papers is still open through June 13th, 2008!) but you can find out more about the conference and the location on the conference website.

Magento is an ecommerce platform on PHP which is quite feature rich. This platform is based on the Zend Platform. You can take a look at a Magento store and the admin demo over at their demo section.

He mentions some of the features it has including analytics, catalog management, order management, payment integration with Paypal/Google Checkout/Authorize.net and some SEO optimizations.

You can find out more over on the project's website and download your own copy or peruse the forums to get to know the community around this popular app.

One of the most annoying things on the Internet for me is when I click on a link to an Adobe PDF file. For me this is annoying to the extreme because the PDF file is openened directly in your browser because of the Adobe PDF Plugin that almost all browsers have installed. [...] For me an ideal solution would be to offer me choices.

His solution uses mod_rewrite in an .htaccess file to push the visitor to a PHP file. This file grabs the filename they want and pulls in the content, pushing it back out the other side with the "attachment" header that forces a request box on the browser.

ActiveState is pleased to announce the creation of the Open Komodo Project, a new initiative to create an open source platform and promote open standards. The Open Komodo Project will support the open web and web standards, fill a need for developer tools in the open web technology stack, and drive further innovation for Komodo IDE and Komodo Edit.

They want to create a framework for development that integrates with other software (like Firefox) and makes development of both simple applications and complex, rich applications simple. Check out the full press release for more information or just head straight to the project's homepage to get started.

My client is a small, dynamic online publishing company of travel sales and specials. The position is in a fast, energetic environment working with marketing, editors/producers, and ad sales. Their website and newsletter has millions of readers and are growing rapidly! Benefits include health, dental, 401(k), and three weeks vacation.

This position requires knowledge of both front-end and back-end technologies. You will be intimately involved with defining processes and must be able to work well with others during all stages of the development cycle.

Requirements:

• Experience with PHP 5, specifically OO aspects of the language
• Experience with Linux and Apache
• Understanding of JavaScript, HTML, and the DOM (AJAX)
• Understanding of object oriented design
• Experience with both MySQL and MS SQL Server
• Love of open source development and standards-based development
• Strong communication skills
• Able to multi-task
• DBA skills highly desired
• Experience with N-Tier architecture desired
• Internationalization experience is a plus
• Experience with Ruby on Rails is a plus

If you are interested in this position and are authorized to work in the USA, please submit your resume, OO PHP 5 code sample and salary requirements to beau@open-source-staffing.com

Other information:

• Paid Relocation
• 70-100k DOE

As a PHP Developer you are working in a variety of self-steering Project teams. You will take an active part in developing, building and implementing custom built applications for a variety of customers and a diversity of products and services. Customer satisfaction is key in doing our business right the first time and we expect you to have the same mind setting.

Within the application product range we offer for example websites, components and custom built (web based) applications. Also DOP makes use of a full suite of Open Source/Open Standards Software such as CRM, administrative/logistics tools and a full range of web shop applications. All with custom built front-end interfaces, databases en external connections as required. Finally maintenance and expanding of existing (ASP) applications is part of the job description. This is a position in our Leusden-based office.

What are we looking for?

• Intellectual and working capacity on Bachelor level. Demonstrable by completed or nearly completed degree on Bachelor's level or acquired by traceable (self study/hobby/working) experience;
• You are able to showing some of your (self study/hobby/working) combined PHP/MySQL/(X)HTML/CSS projects;
• You are keen on the Open Source Community. Possibly you are already an active member of Open Source Communities?;
• Candidates with an understanding of one or more of the following techniques: Linux, Kubuntu, Subversion, AJAX, Joomla!, Symfony, PHP5, Zend Studio, Table-less lay-lout and Tux;
• Experience with PostgreSQL or Oracle is a plus;

What do we offer?

• An informal working culture;
• Professional self-steering project teams;
• Development with Zend Studio;
• Possibility of acquiring your Zend (PHP5) certificate;
• Growth and guidance to becoming a genuine PHP Guru;
• Working in a forest environment with our own swimming pool;
• Remunerate according to knowledge and level of experience.

Are you feeling appealed to working in this professional but informal Open Source/Open Standards Organization with a bunch of geek colleagues and interesting products? Please contact us. We will gladly have an appointment with you giving you the possibility to talk to your future team members.

Open-source software company Zend Technologies, hoping to double its revenue this year, says it will narrow its focus to big business and Web 2.0-style start-ups, according to incoming CEO Harold Goldberg.

The article talks about the obvious routes (selling products to large facilities, governments, etc) but also in partnerships (IBM) and other yet to be discovered paths.

The idea of this project is quite simple, I was thinking that offering this service to anyone who requests it could be a very nice idea. Offering to run the scan is the only way I could ensure that people are not using this scanner against any website.

Basically, his idea is to offer this service free of charge, but still restrict it to avoid malicious use. It would involve validation via an md5 hash to ensure that the website has been authorized to run it. Check out the blog entry for more details on how the scan would be run.

The goal of this article is to provide some perspective on reasons why one might choose one over the other.

Unfortunately, it doen't really do anything of the sort. The article only serves to describe the two options - features, history, tools needed to use then - without ever giving any real reasons or situations where you might want to use one over the other. Their only real opinion on comparing the two is the "cost of the initial investment" or "comfort with using Open Source software".

Is anyone else out there as tired of these articles as I am?

In this second part of a three-part series on blogging with PHP and MySQL, we will be looking at the actual blog. The blog will be simplicity itself. I have created a style sheet that will help in making the blog look clean and neat. The blog will be based purely on a open blog system.

This time, they'll be looking at creating the database tables and making two key files in PHP - the main index.php page and the comments.php to allow visitors to share their opinions. They dont give any kind of integration example with the previous part, though. They just expect you to understand and know how to tie the login script in with these new pieces.