php|architect – November 2009

Connecting Your Data With Facebook Connect

Share your data with the Facebook community, increase yourbrand, break through the clutter and maximize the paradigm shift.Buzz words are not the only thing that Facebook, the world’s mostpopular social network, provides. It offers a powerful method forbringing your application to the Facebook community. That method isConnect, a full feature API library.—by Stephen Hird

Building Mock Applications for Remote Services

Quality Assurance (QA) is one of the most important aspectsof the software development process, but QA and testing can beparticularly challenging when the product being built communicateswith remote systems. This article will show how we can mock remotebusiness functionality and make our products more easilytestable.—by Daniel Bargieł

Building a Social Media Mash-up with PHP and Flash Builder 4 Beta

Discover how easy it is to implement data services with theZend Framework and Flash Builder 4 beta.—by Dan Orlando

Integrating Social Media into Your Website with the Kickapps API

Have you wanted to add social media functionality to yourwebsite, but have not had the time and resources? By integrating aKickapps hosted community and utilizing their API, you can add arobust set of social media features to your CMS driven websitequickly and easily. This article will show you how to get up andrunning with the Kickapps APIs so that your users can use thesocial media functions they demand.—by Ron Dobley

JavaScript From a PHP Perspective

You’d be hard pressed to find a developer among us who istasked with writing nothing else but PHP code all day long. Even inthe largest development shops which have clearly defined duties andseparated departments, we’re often multi-language developers. Weuse PHP and MySQL to handle back-end processing tasks, and HTML,CSS, and JavaScript to build up dynamic front-end interfaces.There’s a lot we need to know just to do our jobs on a dailybasis!—by Timothy Boronczyk

Enterprise PHP: Flower Driven Development

In his “php|architect’s Guide to Enterprise PHP” book, Ivodiscusses various development methodologies such as Agiledevelopment, Test Driven Development and various others. In thismonth’s column, Ivo suggests a new paradigm to help developersimprove the end result of their projects Flower DrivenDevelopment.—by Ivo Jansch

Security Roundup: What Is It With Security?

We’re tired of hearing about security, and it’sshowing.—by Arne Blankerts

exit(0): De Artis atque Computationis

Have best practices made us lose our way?—by Marco Tabini