313. PHP and JavaScript Innovation Award Report September 2015 Edition - June 2015 nominees
Updated on: 2015-10-22
Posted on: 2015-09-17
This is the September edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of June 2015.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Updated on: 2015-09-15
Posted on: 2015-09-15
Blog: PHP Preemptive Cache package blog
Package: PHP Preemptive Cache
One way to improve the performance of slow scripts is to use caching techniques to minimize the time to retrieve data that takes a long time to compute.
Read this article to learn how to apply the Preemptive Cache class in practice to optimize the performance of scripts that retrieve data from databases.
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Read this article to learn how to apply the Preemptive Cache class in practice to optimize the performance of scripts that retrieve data from databases.
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Updated on: 2015-09-14
Posted on: 2015-09-14
A recent proposal for PHP 7.1 aims to create a new extension named PCO (PHP Cryptography Objects) for data encryption, decryption, signing, etc.. It will be like what PDO (PHP Database Objects) is for database access.
The discussion about the PCO extension was one the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 63 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on other PHP 7.1 features in discussion like having visibility modifiers for class constants, shorter closure function declarations, and having random value generation functions throwing exceptions.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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The discussion about the PCO extension was one the main topics commented by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins in the episode 63 of the Lately in PHP podcast.
They also commented on other PHP 7.1 features in discussion like having visibility modifiers for class constants, shorter closure function declarations, and having random value generation functions throwing exceptions.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these interesting PHP topics.
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Updated on: 2022-01-15
Posted on: 2015-09-09
Blog: Shopping Cart package blog
Package: Shopping Cart
Many sites need to sell products online. There are many PHP e-commerce platforms but when you need something simple and easy, such platforms may be too much to adapt for your needs.
Read this article to learn how to implement a shopping cart that you can easily customize using PHP and a MySQL database to let your users view and pick the products they want to buy with fast user interface based on AJAX.
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Read this article to learn how to implement a shopping cart that you can easily customize using PHP and a MySQL database to let your users view and pick the products they want to buy with fast user interface based on AJAX.
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Updated on: 2015-09-08
Posted on: 2015-09-08
Blog: PHP Preemptive Cache package blog
Package: PHP Preemptive Cache
Sometimes we have to deal with PHP code that takes longer to run than it should. When that happens we tend to keep trying to figure the causes and take every opportunity to improve the code. Sometimes it is not enough to clean up or refactor the code.
Read this article to learn techniques to detect what PHP code is causing your application to run so slow.
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Read this article to learn techniques to detect what PHP code is causing your application to run so slow.
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Updated on: 2015-09-07
Posted on: 2015-09-07
Blog: PHP Sweepstakes package blog
Package: PHP Sweepstakes
In the first part of this article it was covered the problem of computing the dates of periodical events and nuances that can make the solution more complicated.
Read this article to learn how to use the PHP Sweepstakes package to solve a real world example of the problem.
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Read this article to learn how to use the PHP Sweepstakes package to solve a real world example of the problem.
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Updated on: 2015-09-01
Posted on: 2015-09-01
Blog: PHP Sentiment Analyzer package blog
Package: PHP Sentiment Analyzer
In the first part of this article we learned about the theory of analyzing a text to determine the sentiments expressed by the user that wrote it.
Read this article to learn to how to implement a sentiment analysis application in practice based on the PHP Sentiment Analyzer class.
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Read this article to learn to how to implement a sentiment analysis application in practice based on the PHP Sentiment Analyzer class.
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Updated on: 2015-08-31
Posted on: 2015-08-31
Blog: PHP Sweepstakes package blog
Package: PHP Sweepstakes
Sometimes it is necessary to calculate the days of periodical events, like for instance sweepstakes, contests, regular publications, etc..
In general, it is an easy problem to solve. However when the events span multiple days and must not occur in holidays, the problem becomes less trival to solve.
Read this article to learn how you can use the PHP Sweepstakes class to compute the days of regular event taking in account these nuances that may complicate the calculations.
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In general, it is an easy problem to solve. However when the events span multiple days and must not occur in holidays, the problem becomes less trival to solve.
Read this article to learn how you can use the PHP Sweepstakes class to compute the days of regular event taking in account these nuances that may complicate the calculations.
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Updated on: 2015-08-31
Posted on: 2015-08-27
This is the August edition of the Innovation Award podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the outstanding features of all the past month nominees and winners PHP and JavaScript packages, the prizes that the authors earned, starting with the nominees from the month of May 2015.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video, or read the transcript to learn why the nominated packages were considered to be innovative.
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Updated on: 2015-08-25
Posted on: 2015-08-25
Nowadays working with a version control application like Git is mandatory for all software developers, even those that work alone in private projects that are not going to be published anywhere.
In the first part of this article we covered the basic benefits of working it explaining some of the most commonly used features, some very well known, others not so much.
Read this part the article to learn how use Git in projects the involve collaboration between multiple developers, how to take advantage of existing Web platforms that support Git, and how to migrate from older version control applications like SubVersion.
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In the first part of this article we covered the basic benefits of working it explaining some of the most commonly used features, some very well known, others not so much.
Read this part the article to learn how use Git in projects the involve collaboration between multiple developers, how to take advantage of existing Web platforms that support Git, and how to migrate from older version control applications like SubVersion.
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