Beth Tucker Long

Elizabeth Tucker Long is the Editor-In-Chief of php|architect magazine as well as a trainer and occasional guest blogger for php|architect. She also runs Treeline Design - http://www.treelinedesign.com, a web development company, and Playlist Event Music - http://www.playlisteventmusic.com, a DJ company, along with her husband, Chris, and son, Liam.

Articles by this author

Accessibility

by Beth Tucker Long · October 5, 2011

I was recently reminded of a talk I heard back in 2008 at php|works in Atlanta. Eric David Benari gave a great talk on usability and accessibility for sites, and even though this was quite a while ago, the talk topic remains relevant today. One of the main things that I got out of that [...]

The Cloud Couldn’t Be Easier

by Beth Tucker Long · April 19, 2011

Zend has just announced their latest partnership with RightScale, a leader in cloud computing management, to provide you with a new Platform as a Service (PaaS) offering. This is not just your typical PaaS, though, this will provide a “solution for deploying and managing business-critical PHP applications with high availability, elasticity and portability in the cloud.”

Mobile Development with PHP

by Beth Tucker Long · April 11, 2011

Adobe Flash Builder 4.5 will soon be available (release is currently scheduled for early May) to the PHP development community. Version 4.5, though, is not just the latest version of Flash Builder, it is the beginning of a partnership between Zend and Adobe. Flash Builder 4.5 is under the Adobe umbrella, but will come with Zend Studio 8 bundled in and will have the full backing of Zend. You will now be able to create mobile applications using the Adobe Flash platform and PHP in one integrated application. Both Flash Builder and Zend Studio have been built on the Eclipse platform, so you will be able to build Flex and PHP side-by-side.

Function Contest

by Beth Tucker Long · February 17, 2011

Custom PHP functions can solve problems, save you time and now, they can even get you free stuff!

New SQL Server driver released

by Beth Tucker Long · April 26, 2010

Microsoft recently announced their new PDO driver for SQL Server. The goal is to make it easier for developers to support multiple databases with their applications and to make it easier for popular PHP applications to offer a SQL server option.

Possible vulnerabilities found in PHP session IDs

by Beth Tucker Long · April 9, 2010

A new advisory warns that a lack of entropy is making session hijacking easier, but only under certain circumstances. Core developer Ilia Alshanetsky gives us the straight dope.