ReBlogged: PHP Job Market Webcast

Chris Shiflett: PHP Job Market Webcast: "PHP Job Market Webcast"

A webcast called The PHP Job Market is being offered this Wednesday by Zend. It focuses on the Zend Certification (it's one of the "ZCE Month" promotions), and it features guests that provide a few different perspectives. I'll be there to speak about my role on the Zend Advisory Board as an SME (fancy new acronym I learned that stands for subject matter expert). Other guests include a software architect and a director of open source recruiting. The webcast is hosted by PHP's own Marcus Whitney (of Pro PHP Podcast fame).

My involvement in the creation of the Zend Certification is completely independent of Zend, and I think this has been a healthy approach. I can appreciate that commercial entities have to financially justify their efforts, and I'm glad Zend recognizes the value in helping to legitimize PHP in the eyes of big business decision makers. Robert Peake has been bold enough to state:

I believe the existence of the Zend Certified Engineer Program may do more to further PHP in the enterprise than the release of PHP 5.

I initially had my own doubts about the success of a PHP certification, and I bet I wasn't alone - I think many of us in the open source community are quick to scoff such things. If you're still having doubts, I invite you to sign up for the webcast and listen to what the other guests have to say. You might be surprised.

:ZCE: 10 tips that every PHP newbie should know

Jeffery Vaska, writing a cool series about 10 Tips that every php newbie should know about it...
Jeffery says I wish I had known these 10 tips the day I started working with PHP. Instead of learning them through painstaking process, I could have been on my way to becoming a PHP programmer even sooner! This article is presented in two parts and is intended for folks who are new to PHP.

10 tips that every php newbie should know (Part one)
10 tips that every php newbie should know (Part two)

Celebrating the 1-year annevirsary of ZCE

Happy ZCE day! well its, not independent day, its just the 1-year annevirsary of Zend certification
Read more at Zend.com

:ZCE: The PHP Search Engine

PHP Search engine? ever thought it would exists?
Marco tabini PHP|arch publisher is real evil and he admit it! how honest and it seems we have to agree with him.

Macro Tabini has just announce the bron of PHP Search Engine, which will help PHP programmers to find more accurate information about PHP related articles, blogs, news, etc..

I'm sure this will help programmers who's preparing for ZCE.


PHP Search Engine site

read more at Marco tabini blog

:ZCE: Places to get practice PHP tests

Here are some locations you can test your PHP skills before taking the final zend exam...

http://expertrating.com/ ($10)

http://brainbench.com/ ($50)

Hudzilla.org (FREE)

Zend (FREE)

BlueShoes (FREE)

:ZCE: Short form of if-statement

Someone explain this to me
<?php

$n = 15;

$a = ($n % 2 ? 'odd number' : 'even number');

echo $a;

?>

Ok, I can understand its if statement,
eval ? DO_IF_TRUE : DO_IF_FALSE;

that was for today

:ZCE: Some links for light reading

Including files:
include,
include_once,
require,
require_once,
include_path
Including other files


PHP data types
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