Month: February 2015

The New Era of PHP: Using Composer for Dependency and Package Management

anil
PHP Composer package management guide image

“A lot of PHP libraries, frameworks, and components are there to choose from and your project will likely use several of them — these are called project dependencies. Till now, PHP did not have a good way to manage all these project dependencies and even if you managed them manually, you still had to worry about autoloaders.Composer is not a package manager though it deals with “packages” or libraries, but it manages them on a per-project basis, installing them in a directory inside your project. By default it will never…

Most 8 Tips To Prepare For A Panel Interview

anil

The recruiter sounds very excited on the phone: “I’ve scheduled you for a panel interview with our managers next Tuesday a.m. I look forward to meeting with you. Do you have any questions for me?” You hear “panel interview” and you freeze. Handling one interviewer at a time is a task, so a panel interview is not exactly the best news. But hold on, before you sweat the phone out of your hand. Understand a bit more about panel interviews to know how to ace them. A panel interview is…

Now PHP 7 Moves Full Speed Ahead

anil
PHP 7 development updates illustration

Next major version of server-side Web development language planned for release in the next year.. PHP 7, a major update to the server-side scripting language due next year, will offer performance improvements and more capabilities, along with deprecation of some existing features.The release will be anchored by performance enhancements derived from the phpng branch of the PHP tree. Officials from PHP tools vendor Zend Technologies discussed the progress of phpng and PHP 7 at the company’s ZendCon conference in Silicon Valley this week. “[The upgrade is] really focused on helping…

Important 5 Hard And Soft Skills That Will Get You Hired

anil

When it comes to job searching, the internet giveth and the internet taketh away. It’s easy to find job listings, but arguably tougher than ever to stand out from the crowd of qualified applicants. However, if you have the right skills — and know how to draw attention to them on your resume — your chances of being noticed by a recruiter are pretty darn good.       Top professional social network LinkedIn recently published its annual rankings list, The 25 Hottest Skills That Got People Hired in 2014,…

PHP Developers, Take Note: Zend Server 8 Arrives On The Amazon Cloud

anil

Zend Technologies today is announcing the arrival of the latest version of the Zend Server application platform on the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Marketplace.That should come as good news to developers who work in PHP and prefer to run their applications on the biggest public cloud around.Zend Server 8 is a PHP application server with tools for deploying, monitoring, and debugging PHP-based apps. PHP, for its part, is one of the most popular server scripting languages on the Internet, used on more than 80 percent of Web servers.The version coming…

How to Push your Drupal Site’s Events to your Phone with Pushover

anil
Drupal Pushover integration for notifications image

In this article I am going to show you how you can integrate Pushover with your Drupal site. I will illustrate a couple of examples of how you can use Pushover to notify yourself as soon as something happens on your site. The code I write in this article is also available in this repository so you can just clone that if you want to follow along. What is Pushover? Pushover is a web and mobile application that allows you to get real time notifications on your mobile device. The way it works is…

Simple blog PHP script for your blog

anil
PHP blog script development tutorial image

If you need a blog on your website, you’re at the right place.  Simple Blog PHP script could be easily installed into your existing(current) website. Your website visitors can read your post and leave comments in it. Any publication of a new comment is spam protected using captcha verification. Administrators have their own password protected page, where they can create, edit or delete their posts. Simple Blog PHP supports these features: any language support simple css setup through admin with unlimited visual combinations under your control option to use meta title…

Wear what you want with android wear

anil
Android Wear fashion and style guide image

Deciding what to wear is a really personal thing—it’s one of the ways you show people what you’re about. Wearable technology is no different, so Android Wear offers a wide selection of apps and watches to suit your taste. It’s about expressing who you are, however you want, right on your wrist.                                                   Today there’s even more ways to show your style with Android Wear, including dozens of new watch faces (powered by an official Watch Face API), a full collection of devices on Google Play, and lots of other improvements based on…

You can save your wireless bill by using 3 ways

anil
Save wireless bill money tips illustration

Smartphones are expensive, and so are the bills that inherently accompany them. People everywhere pay high prices for the simple services of talk, text and data. But there are options out there for your wireless bill, options that could help to save you money. It’s a given that these won’t work in every scenario, but perhaps one of them will work to help you save a few dollars on your next wireless bill. Let’s take a look at three ways that could help you save on your wireless bill. 1.…

How to Upgraded Font Awesome

anil

HTML KickStart now uses Font Awesome version 4.2.0! A lot of people have been asking for this upgrade. I was a little hessitant to upgrade because of the new CSS naming convention in Font Awesome (FA). The older version of FA used a nice verbose “icon-name” CSS class, I like that better. The new class is “fa fa-name” and I don’t find this very human readable. However, the benifits of over 200 more new icons and keeping FA up-to-date far outweights the downside.  You may have also noticed that I…