Ken Levy on Visual Studio Extensibility (VSX)
Carl and Richard talk VSX with Ken Levy who these days is all about community and showing developers how to extend Visual Studio.
December 31, 2007
Community News: Latest PEAR Releases for 12.31.2007
Latest PEAR Releases:
December 26, 2007
Jeff Prosise Goes Deep on Silverlight
Carl and Richard talk Silverlight with Jeff Prosise.
December 24, 2007
Joe Duffy on the Task Parallel Library
Carl and Richard talk to Microsoft’s Joe Duffy about the Task Parallel Library, which promises to make multi-threaded programming easier for us all.
Community News: Latest PEAR Releases for 12.24.2007
Latest PEAR Releases:
- Console_CommandLine 0.1.0
- Services_Amazon 0.7.1
- Testing_Selenium 0.4.2
- HTML_Table 1.8.2
- Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_Pager 0.1.3
- Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_HTMLTable 0.1.4
- Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_MDB2 0.1.11
- Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_DBQuery 0.1.11
- Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_XML 0.2.0
- Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_DBTable 0.1.7
- Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_CSV 0.1.6
- Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_Array 0.1.3
- Structures_DataGrid 0.9.0
- Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_XUL 0.1.3
- Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_Smarty 0.1.4
- Structures_DataGrid_Renderer_HTMLSortForm 0.1.3
- Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_DataObject 0.2.1
- OLE 0.6.1
- PHP_CodeSniffer 1.0.0
- Console_CommandLine 0.1.1
- Structures_DataGrid_DataSource_PDO 0.1.0
- Net_FTP 1.4.0a1
December 19, 2007
Richard Campbell Tells All!
It’s our 300th show! Can you believe it? Carl interviews Richard, who tells many stories of his experiences in electronics and computers. Don’t miss the funny stories!
RegDeveloper.co.uk: Build your PDF and Excel reports with PHP
On the RegDeveloper website, there’s a new tutorial posted that covers the creation of both PDF files and Excel reports from inside of PHP (with the help of the Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer PEAR component and the ClibPDF PHP Library (bundled with PHP 5.3).
Given the prevelance of PHP, Excel and PDF it’s fortunate there exists class libraries for the generation of PDF documents and Excel spreadsheets using PHP.
They start with the PDF generation and show the installation process for ClibPDF and an example of creating a document on the fly. Their example sets up a title, some content text and a table of information. Creating the Excel spreadsheet is even simpler with the Spreadsheet_Excel_Writer – installation via a PEAR channel and defining the worksheet, fonts and content are quick and easy function calls.
December 18, 2007
Jeff Palermo on ASP.NET MVC
Jeff Palermo introduces the nascent ASP.NET Model View Controler Framework. He easily explains the benefits, pitfalls, and techniques you can use to implement a MVC pattern in ASP.NET.
Job Posting: FOX Interactive Media Seeks Senior Front End Web Developer (Brisbane, CA)
As posted on Terry Chay’s blog:
| Company | Fox Branded Entertainment |
| Location | Brisbane, CA |
| Title | Senior Front End Web Developer |
| Summary |
Fox Branded Entertainment is responsible for developing high-profile web sites for select Fox television programs, including the official site for the top-rated series American Idol. We are seeking an experienced front-end web developer for a full-time position. Responsibilities include managing and performing daily development in a LAMP environment; building standards-compliant, cross-browser/platform compatible web pages; defining and overseeing technical architecture; evaluating and recommending emerging technologies; and performing website updates on a scheduled and ad hoc basis. Successful candidates should thrive ina process-driven team-based environment. THey must be capable of working collaboratively to determine technically superior solutions which meet business objectives. They should be highly organized and capable of managing multiple projects and priorities simultaneously, with a proven ability to meet deadlines. They should be willing and able to provide leadership and guidance to other team members as needed. Responsibilities:
Requirements:
If interested, contact Diana Schwartz 310.590.4570 or dschwartz at this site. |
| Link | More Information |
Rob Richards’ Blog: Book Review: PHP Oracle Web Development
Rob Richards has posted his own review of the Packt Publishing book “PHP Oracle Web Development” to his blog today.
Overrall I would have to say that PHP Oracle Web Development is a good book for a PHP developer needing to get up to speed quickly working with an Oracle database. [...] The only place I found the book lacking was the initial setup of the environment.
The environment they chose to go with was a Windows setup which caused him problem when he tried to compile with the oci8 extensions – libraries weren’t found where they were needed. His solution? Setting his ORACLE_HOME to the right location then all was well.