You can still vote for your favourite project in our PHP on Windows contest—and you could be the lucky winner of a one-year subscription to php|a!

As part of the TEK·X webcast series, we invited noted author and open source contributor Matt Butcher to speak about a topic he know more than a little about, Drupal.

The popular document-oriented database hits version 0.11.0, and this time shows up without “alpha” or “beta” status.

Version 1.4.0 has been released to production, bringing with it new security features and many other enhancements to MongoDB.

Talking about the NoSQL movement is like talking about a “NoC++” movement: people not using C++ have very little else in common with each other. For instance, some people say that NoSQL is obviously all about ACID (atomic, consistent, isolated, durable) vs. BASE (basically available, soft-state, easy). Other people say it’s all about scalability, whereas […]

The introduction of namespaces in PHP 5.3 is bringing a new concept in the PHP world, and knowing how to leverage the new features is important for writing concise and readable code.

Seems that everyone has a few USB flash drives nowadays. The question is, what do you have on that flash drive? And what apps could you have, but maybe haven’t thought of putting on your drive?

Twitter is a powerful medium, and following the right kind of people for your interests is crucial.

I talk with managers all the time from large companies to small 3-5 person shops. Regardless of the size of the team, all managers want one thing. They want to know how to make their developers more productive. In my many years off working in IT as both a developer and a manager, I have come to the realization that there is one tool you can give a developer, regardless of the language they work in, that will make them more productive. Warning managers, you won’t like the answer.

In honor of Ada Lovelace day, we have asked core MongoDB developer Kristina Chodorow to be our guest blogger today—and she came through in fine style.