Archive for June, 2007

Competition Reminder

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The PHP Programming Contest ends at 5pm GMT 1st July. Entries are starting to come in more quickly as time runs out and it is clear that everyone has been putting in a lot of work. As I write […]

30Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 1 comment | Continued

Zend UK Business Seminar

I have been invited to attend Zend’s UK Business Seminar in london on Monday. The seminar has some interesting speakers including Zeev Suraski , David Boloker and Clint Oram. Zeev is doing a talk on the evolution of PHP which should be very interesting. David Boloker is talking about PHP and Mashups and is the […]

29Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 0 comments | Continued

Preparation

We have two new staff members joining Assembleron on Monday and I have been extremely busy getting lots of things ready. On a mundane front this has meant things like contracts, keys and swipe cards to organize. On a development front this has meant seriously getting my house in order. This means making sure phpDocumentor […]

28Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 6 comments | Continued

Top 10 Programmers of All Time

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I was discussing with a friend recently who I thought were the most influential programmers of all time. My own experience is heavily rooted within the games industry because of my 10 years working in it so my list includes some industry heavy weights. I am sure people will disagree with […]

25Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 72 comments | Continued

PHP Competition Update

It is now less than a week before the PHP Programming Contest ends and the entries have started to come in. I am already very impressed with the effort that has been put in and judging is going to be very difficult.
Thanks to everyone who has helped promote the competition so far.

PHPDeveloper.org
Zend
Douglas Karr
DeveloperCast
Stuart Dallas
O2 BLOG
Marcin […]

25Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 2 comments | Continued

Solving Programming Problems

Since starting the PHP programming contest I have been thinking a lot about problem solving. And specifically problem solving within programming. Early on in most people’s programming careers problem solving is a large part of your day to day job. As you become more experienced you find that many programming patterns that you have used […]

21Jun2007 | Nick Halstead | 6 comments | Continued
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