by Marco Tabini · January 2, 2012

By now, you’ve probably heard of the Stop Online Piracy Act (better known in internet circles as SOPA), a law that is currently making its way through the United States legislative process. As a rule, we normally shy away from political speech here at php|architect. On this particular topic, however, we feel that we should [...]

by Cal Evans · October 17, 2011

Recently, I attended a panel of local business executives discussing “the Cloud”. Overall, it was an interesting discussion. Since they all managed what we would consider “Enterprise Scale” operations, it was a different viewpoint for me as I spend much of my time talking to smaller scale operations or start-ups. As the discussion played out, [...]

by Bill Karwin · December 29, 2010

The hype of 2010 was clearly NoSQL.

by Bill Karwin · September 23, 2010

Experiments that question our conventions can help us understand those conventions better.

by Marco Tabini · July 22, 2010

Object-relational mappers are seen either as an abomination or as a life-saving tool. In the PHP world, they have appeared only in the last years.

by Bill Karwin · June 25, 2010

Ralph Schindler has started the ball rolling on requirements for Zend Db for Zend Framework 2.0.  He announced on the ZF Contributors mailing list:   Requirements have been solicited from both community members in various conversations, as well as looking through the issue tracker for feature requests that have been on the backlog due to [...]

by Marco Tabini · June 23, 2010

Participation in the open source community and projects can really give a boost to your career.

by Marco Tabini · June 14, 2010

As PHP turns fifteen, Marco takes a look forward at what our past means.

by Cal Evans · April 27, 2010

“Reflections on Management: How to Manage Your Software Projects, Your Teams, Your Boss, and Yourself” by Watts S. Humphrey is Addison Wesley’s latest book on managing the software development process. Click through and see what our own Cal Evans thinks about it.