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Gyorgy Fekete's Blog: Web Development in Mac OS X - Complete Guide
by Chris Cornutt July 11, 2008 @ 10:22:56
Gyorgy Fekete has provided what he calls a complete guide to PHP development on Mac OS X in a recent blog entry.
Finally, I switched entirely to Mac. It is a little frustrating that there is not a complete resource on how to set up a web development enviroment on Mac OS X. The majority of tutorials are outdated. I will try to write this guide as complete as possible.
The guide provides basic installation instructions for PHP, MySQL (XAMPP or MAMP), the configuration of these two packages, throwing XDebug in to help with your debugging, installing Subversion and picking out your IDE of choice. He also suggests a somewhat optional step - setting up a Windows virtual machine to be able to test things out cross-platform without the need for a separate machine.
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Job Posting: Newsvine Seeks Web Developer (Seattle, WA)
by Chris Cornutt May 26, 2008 @ 11:13:42
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Newsvine |
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Seattle, WA |
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Web Developer |
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The Newsvine Team is looking for an experienced, self-motivated, and passionate front-end developer to join us in building products and services for the Newsvine platform. Your primary responsibility will be to design and develop site features and functionality in a multi-tier web environment using PHP, CSS, JavaScript, and the YUI JavaScript library. Additional responsibilities include daily site support and maintenance. The ideal candidate is able to work on small teams under tight deadlines with little supervision. A computer science degree or equivalent is a plus, but experience, skill, and attention to detail are more important.
The ideal candidate will have a strong command of the following knowledge areas:
- X/HTML, CSS, DOM, and JavaScript
- PHP or similar scripting language
- Mastery of web standards and cross-browser compatibility
Preferable Job Qualifications:
- Experience working on large-scale, high-availability web sites
- Successful industry experience using latest DHTML and ajax technologies
- Experience with SQL and relational database implementations serving as the backend to production web applications
- Experience with, or an interest in, working with the YUI JavaScript library
- Familiarity with Subversion a plus
The job will be based out of the lovely Newsvine offices in Seattle, down by the waterfront pictured here. If you're interested, please send an e-mail and resumé to "newsvinejobs at newsvine.com".
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David Hansson's Blog: The immediacy of PHP
by Chris Cornutt April 04, 2008 @ 11:21:10
As Matthew Weir O'Phinney points out, David Hansson (of Rails fame) has posted a few comments on what he calls the "immediacy of PHP".
I love the fact that it's all just self-contained. That the language includes so many helpful functions in the box. [...] PHP scales down like no other package for the web and it deserves more credit for tackling that scope.
and to that, Matthew comments:
It's nice to see leaders of projects like Rails having this same attitude. It's a breath of fresh air in the competitive market of web development frameworks.
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Slashdot.org: Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP
by Chris Cornutt February 29, 2008 @ 12:05:00
Michael Ross has written up (and gotten posted to Slashdot) a review of a book from APress "Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP":
Because learning and using most of these technologies can be rather challenging to a Web developer, perhaps the best way to get started doing so is by using all of them to create a single Web-based application, with no pretense at mastering any one of them. This is the approach taken in Quentin Zervaas's book, Practical Web 2.0 Applications with PHP."
The book (see its web page here) covers lots of different technologies and seeks to be pretty comprehensive and, at around 570 pages, crams as much between its covers as it can. He goes through some parts of the book specifically but glosses over some for the sake of the length of the review.
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PHP in Action Blog: Tips for web testing
by Chris Cornutt February 13, 2008 @ 08:09:46
On the PHP in Action Blog, there's a this post that shares some tips for testing your web applications with some simple tests.
I just started listing the techniques I've learned when writing tests to exercise the web interface of a PHP application. This is from my experience and my personal preferences; it's not the final word or necessarily right for everyone.
He suggests:
- Use SimpleTest's Web tester if you can
- Test the web output using regular expressions
- Use element IDs or names to test links, forms and fields
- Log HTTP requests in the application
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