Doug Hill has proposed a new project that he hopes to get the community behind - 60 Days:

60 Days is an idea I had while trying to decide what to do with the domains I have sitting around doing nothing — (well nothing but being a nagging reminder that I'll never have time for every idea that pops into my head, and that domain names cost money to keep).

The goal of the project is to take a domain you're not currently using (and you know you have some out there) and making something - a "real world project" - on it in 60 days. the catch is that, for each domain you use for the effort, it has to be a different PHP framework. Keep an eye out for the January 1 launch date for more details.

Over on the ThinkingPHP Blog, Felix Geisendorfer has posted several items to his blog in a his series of Ten Days of Free Dessert with some useful tips about using the CakePHP Framework.

I'm announcing the "10 Days of free Dessert!". This basically means that I'll post at least 1 useful and easy to adapt CakePHP tip begining tomorrow for the next 10 days. I will try to pick things you might not have heard before and that didn't get a lot of loving from the docs team so far.

Here's the listing so far:

• The 7 Crucials of CRUD
• Become Friends with the Inflector
• Generate a Random Password
• Keep Your Cake Fresh (use SVN HEAD)
• Keep a Custom Configuration File
• MySQL & UTF-8
• Conventions over Ego
• Render Custom Errors
• Graceful Error Handling
• Default Models, Components, and Helpers
• Welcome back, Friendly URLs
• Debugging requestAction
• A Simple Config Model The New XML Class

Each of the posts contains a description of the feature and some code to show how it's done. It's a great, handy little series of posts for any CakePHP developer to keep in their toolkit to pull from later on.

Over on the ThinkingPHP Blog, Felix Geisendorfer has posted several items to his blog in a his series of Ten Days of Free Dessert with some useful tips about using the CakePHP Framework.

I'm announcing the "10 Days of free Dessert!". This basically means that I'll post at least 1 useful and easy to adapt CakePHP tip begining tomorrow for the next 10 days. I will try to pick things you might not have heard before and that didn't get a lot of loving from the docs team so far.

Here's the listing so far:

• The 7 Crucials of CRUD
• Become Friends with the Inflector
• Generate a Random Password
• Keep Your Cake Fresh (use SVN HEAD)
• Keep a Custom Configuration File
• MySQL & UTF-8
• Conventions over Ego
• Render Custom Errors
• Graceful Error Handling
• Default Models, Components, and Helpers
• Welcome back, Friendly URLs
• Debugging requestAction
• A Simple Config Model The New XML Class

Each of the posts contains a description of the feature and some code to show how it's done. It's a great, handy little series of posts for any CakePHP developer to keep in their toolkit to pull from later on.

Davey Shafik has already gotten some of his experiences down in blog post form from the php|tek conference today, actually starting with the day previous in his Day 0 and Day 1 posts.

In the Day 0 post he just mentions arriving at the conference and getting things ready, but Day 1 sees him giving his "Future Deployment of PHP Applications" talk and his upcoming "Migration to PHP 5.1".

He also mentions videoing the presentation from today ("Deployment" talk) and is hoping to get a Flash video of the presentation up for all to see post-conference (a great idea for non-attendees).

Davey Shafik has already gotten some of his experiences down in blog post form from the php|tek conference today, actually starting with the day previous in his Day 0 and Day 1 posts.

In the Day 0 post he just mentions arriving at the conference and getting things ready, but Day 1 sees him giving his "Future Deployment of PHP Applications" talk and his upcoming "Migration to PHP 5.1".

He also mentions videoing the presentation from today ("Deployment" talk) and is hoping to get a Flash video of the presentation up for all to see post-conference (a great idea for non-attendees).

In the next day of the series from php|architect in their 7 Promotions for 7 Days, they're now offering any PDF issue for the low price of $0.99 USD.

January 5th—today we bring you the first of our "secret" promotions... and it's another great one!

For today only, you can purchase a copy of any issue of php|architect in PDF format for just $1.29 CAD ($0.99 US*).

This represents a discount of more than 70% over our regular price—and there is no limit on the number of issues you can purchase. Buy one, buy two, buy them all and pay just $1.29 CAD each!

To take advantage of the offer, simply log into/create an account on the php|a site, and click the "Buy" next to the issues you want. Very simple and very cheap - take advantage of it while you can!

In the next day of the series from php|architect in their 7 Promotions for 7 Days, they're now offering any PDF issue for the low price of $0.99 USD.

January 5th—today we bring you the first of our "secret" promotions... and it's another great one!

For today only, you can purchase a copy of any issue of php|architect in PDF format for just $1.29 CAD ($0.99 US*).

This represents a discount of more than 70% over our regular price—and there is no limit on the number of issues you can purchase. Buy one, buy two, buy them all and pay just $1.29 CAD each!

To take advantage of the offer, simply log into/create an account on the php|a site, and click the "Buy" next to the issues you want. Very simple and very cheap - take advantage of it while you can!

The start of this week marks the beginning of the "Promo Week" over at php|architect, with deals on all sorts of great things including discounts off of the Zend Certification and discounts on their training courses.

The holidays are a time to spend with the family... but the New Year is a time to get some of the best deals from php|a!

Once a year—and only once a year—we bring you a series of special one-day-only deals on all our products and services that you will not want to miss!

Today is the start of the promotion, and the deal today involves a $50 (USD) discount off of the Zend Certification exam. Here's a few of the others (that aren't surprises):

• Wednesday, Jan. 4th - a free PDF
• Friday, Jan. 6th - 50% off of training classes
• Sunday, Jan. 8th - PDFLib Book launch offer
• Monday, Jan. 9th - a php|tek special offer

So, keep your eyes here for the surprise promos through out the week!

The start of this week marks the beginning of the "Promo Week" over at php|architect, with deals on all sorts of great things including discounts off of the Zend Certification and discounts on their training courses.

The holidays are a time to spend with the family... but the New Year is a time to get some of the best deals from php|a!

Once a year—and only once a year—we bring you a series of special one-day-only deals on all our products and services that you will not want to miss!

Today is the start of the promotion, and the deal today involves a $50 (USD) discount off of the Zend Certification exam. Here's a few of the others (that aren't surprises):

• Wednesday, Jan. 4th - a free PDF
• Friday, Jan. 6th - 50% off of training classes
• Sunday, Jan. 8th - PDFLib Book launch offer
• Monday, Jan. 9th - a php|tek special offer

So, keep your eyes here for the surprise promos through out the week!

php|architect magazine has some great new promotions that they've started to close out this year (and start up the new one) with a bang.

The holidays are a time to spend with your family... but the new year is the time to take advantage of our once-a-year "promofest"!

Starting January 3rd, 2006, and continuing until January 9th, we'll be announcing a new one-day-only promotion every day.

The promotion will culminate on January 9th with a special discount on all conference packages to celebrate the announcement of the official schedule.

Some of the promos will include: subscription discounts, special pricing on books, huge training price cuts, and even the release of a brand new book - "Beginning Pdflib". So, keep an eye out and watch for those promos!