This Week’s Link List (December 31, 2010)
I considered publishing a “best links of 2010” list here, but alas, there was too much good content in just this week to overlook…everything from another JumpIn Camp report and another ZCE exam experience to free Windows/SQL Azure passes and new Azure/PHP articles…plenty to keep you busy over the New Year’s weekend…
- Julian Egelstaff of Freeform Solutions about things he learned at JumpIn! Camp: http://www.port25.ca/2010/12/22/things-i-learned-at-jump-in-camp/
- xPDO 2.0.1 is now publicly available: http://www.xpdo.org/downloads.html
- Ever run into false positives when using PHPUnit and mocked object calls? This may shed some light on why: http://phpprotip.com/2010/12/expected-exceptions-annotations-mocked-object-calls-oh-my/
- You can now get a 30-day pass to play with Windows Azure and SQL Azure for free (no credit card required): http://www.windowsazurepass.com/?campid=BB8443D6-11FC-DF11-8C5D-001F29C8E9A8
- Thijs Damen shows how to resize images with PHP: http://thijsdamen.nl/php-thumbnails-resize-images-with-php/
- Cal Evans reviews "You want to do what with PHP?" (by Kevin Schroder): http://blog.calevans.com/2010/12/28/book-report-you-want-to-do-what-with-php/
- Vikram Vaswani posts the first of two posts about using the Stack Exchange API with PHP: http://devzone.zend.com/article/12829-Using-the-Stack-Exchange-API-with-PHP-part-1
- Shameer provides a practical look into lambda functions and closures in PHP 5.3: http://shameerc.com/2010/12/php-53-practical-look-into-lambda.html
- Wordpress warns of a critical flaw and recommends upgrading to 3.0.4 immediately: http://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2010/12/30/wordpress-warns-of-critical-flaw-update-to-3-0-4-immediately/
- Chris Jackson describes how he debugged a CSS issue with IE9: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/cjacks/archive/2010/12/28/debugging-a-css-issue-with-ie9-m-246-tley-cr-252-e-edition.aspx
- This is a fun list of "less obvious PHP tricks": http://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/eq338/less_obvious_php_tricks/
- Jas Sandhu has written several new articles about getting started with Windows Azure and PHP: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2010/12/27/quicksteps-to-get-started-with-php-on-windows-azure.aspx
- This year has seen lots of hype about NoSQL. This is yet another look (although cursory) at when NoSQL is (and isn't) the right solution for a given problem: http://phparch.com/2010/12/29/the-nosql-hype-curve-is-bending/
- Sign up for the IIS Community Newsletter Wiki to get information you want published in the IIS Community Newsletter: http://weblogs.asp.net/steveschofield/archive/2010/12/26/share-iis-and-related-information-via-iis-community-newsletter-wiki.aspx
- Sjoerd Maessen writes about his experience in preparing for and taking the PHP 5.3 Zend Certified Engineer (ZCE) exam: http://www.sjoerdmaessen.be/2010/12/30/passing-the-php-5-3-zce-exam/
Happy New Year!
-Brian