Site News: Blast from the Past - One Year Ago in PHP

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:

• Ed Finkler's Blog: The MicroPHP Manifesto
  
• NetTuts.com: Creating an API-Centric Web Application
  
• Stoimen Popov's Blog: PHP Performance: Bitwise Division
  
• Paul Jones' Blog: The Aura Project: Now For PHP 5.4, With Beta Releases
  
• Chris Hartjes' Blog: Better Remote Code Development
  
• Hasin Hayder's Blog: Getting comfy with PhpStorm - one of the best IDEs so far!
  
• Rob Allen's Blog: Sublime Text 2 Snippet for PHP getter and setter generation
  
• XPertDeveloper.com: Get Facebook Page Detail Using Graph API and PHP
  
• Fabien Potencier's Blog: Create your own framework... on top of the Symfony2 Components (part 1)
  
• 7php.com: Building Your PHP Geek Cred To Publicly Be An Awesome PHP Developer
  
• Reddit.com: A Response to "The MicroPHP Manifesto"
  
• Community News: Videos of PHP North West 2011 Sessions Published
  
• Sharon Levy's Blog: PHP Version
  
• Kevin Schroeder's Blog: Connecting to the Zend Developer Cloud with PDT
  
• Kenny Katzgrau's Blog: The Top 10 CodeIgniter Sparks of 2011
  

Community News: Packagist Latest Releases for 01.03.2013

Recent releases from the Packagist:

• ner0tic/php-instagram-api (1.0.3, 1.0.2, 1.0.1, 1.0.0)
  
• proem/proem (0.10.0-alpha6, 0.10.0-alpha5, 0.10.0-alpha4)
  
• proem-components/bootstrap (0.10.0-alpha6, 0.10.0-alpha5, 0.10.0-alpha4)
  
• proem-components/dispatch (0.10.0-alpha6, 0.10.0-alpha5, 0.10.0-alpha4)
  
• proem-components/filter (0.10.0-alpha6, 0.10.0-alpha5, 0.10.0-alpha4)
  
• proem-components/routing (0.10.0-alpha6, 0.10.0-alpha5, 0.10.0-alpha4)
  
• proem-components/service (0.10.0-alpha6, 0.10.0-alpha5, 0.10.0-alpha4)
  
• proem-components/signal (0.10.0-alpha6, 0.10.0-alpha5, 0.10.0-alpha4)
  
• proem-components/http (0.10.0-alpha4, 0.10.0-alpha5, 0.10.0-alpha6)
  
• proem-components/util-loader (0.10.0-alpha4, 0.10.0-alpha5, 0.10.0-alpha6)
  
• proem-components/util-structure (0.10.0-alpha4, 0.10.0-alpha5, 0.10.0-alpha6)
  
• lncd/Oauth2 (0.4.1, 0.4)
  
• matthimatiker/molcomponents (1.4.4-alpha1)
  
• serverdensity/mendedstring (1.1.0)
  
• mv/mv-blog-bundle (v1.0.0-alpha)
  
• phpmyfaq/phpmyfaq (2.8.0-beta2)
  
• thorsten/phpMyFAQ (2.8.0-beta2)
  
• dragonee/silverplate-form (v0.8.2-p1)
  
• uzyn/cakephp-opauth (1.0.2)
  
• goutte/tree-bundle (v1.7.3, v1.7.2)
  
• aygon/jatun (1.1.0RC2)
  

7PHP.com: Interview With Musketeers.me On Taking Over PHP|Architect

On 7PHP.com today Khayrattee Wasseem has posted an interview with Musketeers.me about their recent move to being the owners of the php|architect brand and all of its products/events.

If you were having a sky-diving on planet Mars since the past months, or if you were too enthusiastic in getting lost within The Hobbit's World - wake up Sid! There's news concerning PHP Land! On "its" 10th birthday, last December 2012, your "PHP Magazine for PHP Professionals" (The one & only PHP|Architect) announced on its portal that it's brand, owned by BlueParabola, is being 'safely & soundly' handed over to The PHP Musketeers aka Musketeers.me for a smooth and more dynamic life.

In the interview they talk about things like:

• The motivation behind the acquisition
  
• Positives and negatives of the brand as they see them
  
• Future plans for the magazine and brand
  
• What they see as the overall goals for php|architect
  
• What kind of challenges they see in the road ahead
  

You can read the full interview here and find out more about this change on the php|architect site.

Maarten Balliauw: Working with Windows Azure from within PhpStorm

Maarten Balliauw has a new post today showing you how to work with your Azure site from inside the popular PHP IDE phpStorm.

Working with Windows Azure and my new toy (PhpStorm), I wanted to have support for doing specific actions like creating a new web site or a new database in the IDE. Since I'm not a Java guy, writing a plugin was not an option. Fortunately, PhpStorm (or WebStorm for that matter) provide support for issuing commands from the IDE. Which led me to think that it may be possible to hook up the Windows Azure Command Line Tools in my IDE.

He shows how to add a new "framework" to the IDE for the Azure CLI tools and how to get to a command line from inside the editor. From there you can execute any of the Azure CLI calls just as you would outside of the IDE (like his example, creating a new site called "GroovyBaby").

James Fuller: 2013 Programming Podcasts for the New Year

In a new post James Fuller has shared a list of programming podcasts he suggests you take a listen to as this new year starts off.

I have a long drive to work, and one of the things I do to pass the time regularly is listen to podcasts in the car. I really enjoy programming podcasts and conference talk recordings, and it's a really great way to educate yourself on the go. I wanted to throw a shout out to some podcasts that I haven't previously mentioned on the blog and hopefully turn on a few new listeners.

He's included six different shows in the list, some with a slant towards certain languages, but still valuable for developers in others:

• /dev/hell
  
• Giant Robots Smashing into other Giant Robots
  
• Programming Throwdown
  
• Javascript Jabber
  
• Hanselminutes
  
• Herding Code
  

Community News: Latest Releases from PHPClasses.org

• Signature Verifier
  
• SignatureVerifier
  
• PGBrowser
  
• Activities
  
• Wunderground Weather API
  
• cQRCode
  
• PHP Contact Form Script
  
• Distribution of multidimensional array data into columns
  
• Displays data from a multidimensional array
  
• PHP GUI API
  
• Random Image from Folders
  
• Binary Network
  

Community News: Packagist Latest Releases for 01.02.2013

Recent releases from the Packagist:

• mjohnson/uploader (4.0.0-rc2)
  
• iron-io/iron_mq (1.3.2)
  
• mjohnson/decoda (5.0.0-rc1)
  
• jyggen/curl (1.0.1)
  
• rcrowe/librato-annotation (0.1.2, 0.1.1, 0.1.0)
  
• nette/nette (v2.0.8)
  
• luracast/restler (v3.0.0)
  
• dayax/dayax (v1.0.0)
  
• maximebf/consolekit (1.0.3, 1.0.2, 1.0.1)
  
• ner0tic/php-api-core (1.0.8, 1.0.7)
  
• chilldev/view-helpers-bundle (0.1.1)
  
• serverdensity/mendedstring (1.0.0)
  
• clio/clio (0.1.6)
  
• proem/proem (0.10.0-alpha3)
  
• proem-components/bootstrap (0.10.0-alpha3)
  
• proem-components/dispatch (0.10.0-alpha3)
  
• proem-components/filter (0.10.0-alpha3)
  
• proem-components/routing (0.10.0-alpha3)
  
• proem-components/service (0.10.0-alpha3)
  
• proem-components/signal (0.10.0-alpha3)
  
• proem-components/http (0.10.0-alpha3)