I’m consistently amazed on a weekly basis by the community-produced content that I see. Here’s this week’s highlights…

• Great advice from an impressive list of PHP masters: http://mashable.com/2010/10/21/php-tips-for-beginners/

• Rob Allen describes a bug with the SQLSRV driver that he ran into (and the workaround): http://akrabat.com/php/sqlsrv-v2-and-long-field-names/

• Keith Casey provides practical advice about unit testing: http://devzone.zend.com/article/12701-Unit-Testing-Strategies

• A new blog post on PHPDeveloper.org: API Testing with Frisk: http://blog.phpdeveloper.org/?p=294

• Five more PHP design patterns: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-php-designpatterns/index.html?ca=drs-

• What is good software architecture (in a nutshell)? http://test.ical.ly/2010/10/26/what-is-a-good-software-architecture-in-a-nutshell/

• Octavia Andreea Anghel describes parsing XML with the DOM extension for PHP 5: http://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/DOM-XML-extension/Octavia_Anghel102710.php3

• If you are not familiar with how SSL works, this is a must-read: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/plankytronixx/archive/2010/10/28/crypto-primer-how-does-ssl-work.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0

• Lorna Mitchell looks at a deprecated method in pecl_http: http://www.lornajane.net/posts/2010/Deprecated-Methods-in-Pecl_Http

• Sean Coates gives his impressions of the first Brooklyn Beta conference: http://seancoates.com/blogs/brooklyn-beta

• Ian Barber provides a round up of Search Solutions 2010: http://www.ibuildings.co.uk/blog/archives/1602-Search-Solutions-2010.html

• Lukas Kahwe Smith talks about JSON in Symfony 2: http://pooteeweet.org/blog/0/1850#m1850

• A new site devoted to PHP development on Windows Azure: http://azurephp.interoperabilitybridges.com/

May your Halloween be full of tricks (not mean tricks, of course) and lots of treats!

Thanks.

-Brian

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