Zend Technologies Launches Unlimited Subscription Model for Businesses Using PHP; Signs Major Enterprise Customers in U.S., Europe

DoNanza, the world's leading work-from-home job search engine, released its quarterly trends statistics report for the second quarter 2010. The report is based on the analysis of millions of work-from-home projects, aggregated from all over the web, indexed by the DoNanza search engine. According to the report demand for HTML5 Developers increased while demand for Flash developers decreased; however it's noticeable that the number of Flash-related projects is still 11 times higher than HTML5 projects.

In mobile market, it's amazing to see how the competition between Android and Apple become crucial. In the report, and in only three months, iPad overtakes Android in Mobile Development Projects. It's also interesting to notice that the average budget for iPhone-related projects is 30 percent higher than Android projects, which may be the result of only 28 percent of iPhone apps being free, compared to the Android market with 57 percent of its applications being free.

In programming languages demand, PHP dominates the websites development market. The request for .Net developers is decreasing dramatically even though the average budget for .Net projects remains the highest among the other programming languages. This is a result of the lack of developers, unlike PHP where the number of programmers available is much higher.

Enjoying your Summer ? What about taking an RIA with PHP and Ajax online course ? Marco Tabini just sent an email about an upcoming 19 hour, on-line, live, instructor led class titled "Rich Internet Applications with PHP and Ajax".

The course start on August 6th-20th, 2010 and include :

* Proper (X)HTML programming
* Web service creation and management
* REST, XML-RPC and SOAP
* JavaScript primer
* Asynchronous operations
* Debugging
* Using JSON for data transfers
* Managing events with JavaScript
* Security

You can register for the class here.

Steema Software have just announced the new free, open source version for non-commercial use, of TeeChart for PHP, the native Charting component library for PHP developers. The new version is downloadable with full PHP source code included, meaning that no loader or plug-in are necessary in order to make it work, thus helping developers with the task of posting the scripts to their hosting servers. This also permits customisation of any part of the code if required.

Key features :

- Includes a palette component for Delphi for PHP programming environment.
- Export formats include: JPEG, GIF, PNG, Native Tep, WBMP. Charts may be streamed directly to the browser to avoid maintenance of temporary files.
- Flash / Flex Chart format is now available for some Series types, including animations.
- Add and setup Multiple Axes or add them at runtime. Virtually unlimited Axes may be added and independently configured.
- The PHP Chart is packed with functionality to produce high-class financial Charting applications. Open-High-Low-Close Series, Candle, Volume and MACD, ADX, Stochastic, Bollinger, Momentum, Moving Average and many more statistical functions.
- Codefree tools to offer Annotation, Colour banding with transparency, Custom Lines, Page numbering, Background image display.
- TeeChart's Custom Canvas gives you full access to any part of the Chart for unlimited customisability.
- Available for PHP 5 and above.

More information at www.steema.com/teechart/php

Zend Announces the 'Zend on Windows Server' Rebate Program

Derick have just announced the availability of Xdebug 2.1 with full PHP 5.3 support, and drop support for PHP versions below 5.1. Key features in this release include :

- Error Collection : to collect all notices, warnings and error messages that Xdebug generates from PHP's error_reporting functionality so that you can output them at a later point in your script by hand
- Header Setting Interception : intercept all functions that set HTTP headers such as with header() and setcookie(). Very useful in cases you need to test certain functionality that sets headers somewhere deep in your code.
- Variable Assignment Tracing : The new setting xdebug.collect_assignments allows you to record changes to variables in scripts to trace files.
- "Scream" Support : The scream PECL extension disables the @ (shut-up) operator to actually see all notices, warnings and errors that PHP generates.
- Additions for Stack Traces : added CSS class to html generated by Xdebug, in addition to a new setting xdebug.file_link_format which allows you to turn any file/line link in Xdebug's output to be decorated to a link with a specific format.
- Remote Debugging : new setting xdebug.remote_connect_back allows Xdebug to try to make a debugging connection to the IP address from which the browser request came from.
- Overloaded var_dump : xdebug.overload_var_dump can be used to turn off Xdebug's default behavior of overriding PHP's var_dump() function with the xdebug_var_dump() function that uses pretty HTML for formatting a variable structure.

More details on Derick's post, Download from xdebug.org. Released under a modified PHP License v3.

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