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Carl and Richard break out the microphone during Karaoke night (don’t worry) at the DoubleTree bar in Murphreesboro, TN, to talk to staff and attendees of the devLink Technical Conference (August 22-23).

Carl and Richard talk to Thiago Silva about the new features of Reporting Services for SQL Server 2008.

Richard and Carl talk to Microsoft Executive S. Somasegar about his experiences at Microsoft from his early days working on systems like OS/2, NT, Windows 2000 to overseeing the Developer Division of Microsoft.

Dan Simmons is back with Stephen Forte, a member of the EF Advisory Council, a group of outsiders who were brought in to help shape future direction for the EF. You might be surprised at who else was on the council, and what they are thinking about for the next version.

Emran Hasan has a recommendation for those looking to hire on a “senior PHP developer” – beware.

With the rise of PHP developer as career, many are trying to get their share in the pie. Lately I’ve met a number of developers who have worked for more than one/two years in developing PHP applications in various companies and they consider themselves as “senior” developers.

Key things to keep an eye out for are the “more talk, less code” they tend to do and the lack of dedication to the tasks at hand. These bad developers then follow up with the typical blame to the junior developers, noting that it was them being difficult that caused all of the “real” problems.

Latest PEAR Releases:

• Pager 2.4.7

• HTML_QuickForm_altselect 1.1.0

Job postings for the past week:

• Job Posting: Ibuildings Seeks Test Engineer (Netherlands)

• Job Posting: Viveli, Inc Seeks Software Engineer/Computer Programmer (Chicago, IL)
• Job Posting: Schematic Seeks PHP Developers (New York, NY; Atlanta, GA; Los Angeles, CA)
• Job Posting: Kavi Seeks Product Development Engineer (Portland, OR)
• Job Posting: Dynamic Logic Seeks Sr. PHP Developer (New York, NY)

Christopher Jones points out a free event that Oracle is having at its Headquarters (in Redwood Shores, CA) – “Experience Oracle, PHP & Ruby/Rails”.

Oracle is running a free workshop at its Headquarters on August 25th. This is a call for developers interested in developing applications in PHP, Ruby/Rails, Java, .Net or even wanting to use Oracle’s free SQL Developer tool or learn web development with Oracle’s APEX product.

They’ll be providing lunch and the information, you just show up and soak it all in. You can find more information about the event here (and register to reserve your spot).

On his blog, Roshan Bhattarai shares a few tips on keeping your application safe by filtering user-submitted data.

Yesterday, I saw one of my friend was working on the the contact form and was filtering the user input data(posted variables) individually. He was using a function in PHP to filter the input and using tedious approach while calling the filtering function for each variables with coding each of them in single line . Today, I’m going to show you how can you filter the posted variables easily using callback function in PHP.

He shows how to create a filter_data function (for removing HTML embedded in the data) and how to implement it around your data. It could be extended pretty easily to do more than one filtering method to protect your information even more.

Tobias Schlitt has posted about this year’s FrOSCon conference happening August 23rd and 24th near Bonn.

One of the most amazing German OS events is right in front of the door. Since the organizers of the FrOSCon expect a massive ammount of visitors, they ask everyone kindly to register on their website. If you did not do so, yet, take your heels and do so!

He mentions some of the “PHP VIP” that’ll be there including Marcus Boerger, Derick Rethans and Rasmus Lerdorf as well as the dedicated PHP track they’ll have this year. You can find out more information about the conference from the PHP@FrOSCon website.