So you need a new developer in your team… Fed up of unworthy candidates turning up to the interviews? Tired of not knowing which other stones to turn? Finding your ideal player might sometimes feel like an impossible task, but here are some tips that will bring your search to a happier end.

A potential security issue in the Dojo Toolkit has brought to the public two new releases of Zend Framework, along with 80 bugfixes for the PHP components.

“To be, or not to be: that is the question:” is the memorable quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet played in the 1600s. Programmers, today, have a similar dilemma.

When should a programming framework be used?

Continuing with their lightning-fast development, the Lithium team releases Lithium 0.8.

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.