PHP Series – Wrapping up

After writing and rewriting this post several times I have gave-up on posting it here a WordPress. It became huge and totally unreadable for a blog.

Anyway I wouldn’t let the series without an ending or a wrap of how everything was going to be tied up together and thinking on this I have organized the whole series, written a couple more articles, including this one, revised the codes and wrapped all together in a book.

I hope you enjoy this book as much I have enjoyed writing the posts that originated it.

Book: PHP Series – The encore beginner version

Got this coupon from Lulu.com: spreading the word  – enter code ‘ IDES ‘ at checkout. 10% off.

Dynamic Design

I was searching for a Jquery plugin today when I bumped into this Blog. What did call my attention on this blog was the mouse over event that is on the header (the guy cartoon) of the blog.

With  very little, it brings a very cool dynamics to the site, making it much more interactive.

Besides being a great place to search Jquery stuff, this has a top A interactive design. Check it out: http://marcgrabanski.com

Do you know how far Japan is on Mobile from us ?

Well if you can’t eve imagine, check this post:

http://www.mobilecrunch.com/2009/08/20/infinitatv-makes-sure-you-stay-on-top-of-japans-mobile-tech-scene/

iSaw

In a World where gadgets are the must have in all means, this one is a real breakthrough, iSaw, the first USB powered chainsaw.

I’m not usually sold by this kind of things, but this is amazing. Imagine being able to simply destruct that annoying phone that have been ringing all morning at your side by simply plugging in the iSaw at an available USB port. The uses are endless.

Off course it’s a … well .. check the site … I won’t tell the surprise, just click the orders link: http://www.usbchainsaw.com/

My rating for this product:

Play-doh: Towards Better Object Modeling Webcast Video is now Available

One of the best webcast I have seen so far is now available to be downloaded and watched at PHP Artchitech site.

The webcast: Play-doh: Towards Better Object Modeling - with M. Weier O’Phinney have about 1 hour duration and points perfectly how to better construct objects and model your applications.

Matthew is one of the Zend Guru’s, so take one hour to watch it.

To watch the video: http://mtadata.s3.amazonaws.com/webcasts/20090724-playdoh.wmv

To watch the previous videos and register for the next webcasts go to:

http://www.phparch.com/conferences/webcasts

Have fun.

Maintaining Sessions when using CURL

Julian just post an entry on his blog with an interesting article about maintaining sessions when using CURL.

Check it out: http://www.smooka.com/blog/2007/07/24/maintaining-php-sessions-when-using-curl/

It’s easy to speak

A good friend of mine (my best man actually) just sent me this:

http://www.planb.com.br/falarefacil/

It’s a phrase generator based on a theme (in Portuguese). You enter a theme, let’s say, Twitter, and it will generate a simple phrase that you can use on your Twitter, WordPress, etc.

The whole concept is to draw attention from Brazil‘s corporations in a great marketing campaign for the PlanB company, responsible for this site.

Check it out, even if you don’t know Portuguese, enter a theme, play with it and see the phrases being built. Major fun.

Great web design, great system and a lot of fun.

Fine tune your Firefox

This video from show some great tips and tricks to fine tune your Firefox. It’s already not fair for the other browsers to know that Firefox is already the faster browser, and with some fine tunning, it feels like a jet.

The guy on the video reminds me some old teachers I had, but the legends are much fun. Besides that, all the tips he gave to fine tune your Firefox works very well. Check it out.

http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/itdojo/?p=815&tag=nl.e101

PHP Extreme Odd situations

A friend of mine just sent me this site – http://www.phpwtf.org/. It’s insane good. Shows some good situations of when PHP leave you wondering WTF (sorry no better way to describe this).

Here is a great example from it:

<?php
// I just need four NULLs to demo this.
$a = array_fill(0, 4, NULL);
$a[0]++;
++$a[1];
$a[2]--;
--$a[3];
var_dump($a);
?>

and this is the result

array(4) {
[0]=>
int(1)
[1]=>
int(1)
[2]=>
NULL
[3]=>
NULL
}

If you want to see the full article and some more info about this particular issue, visit: http://www.phpwtf.org/

Did you know 3.0

This is a must see video from Youtube.  Amazing information and data.