Symfony slides from PHP Quebec
Fabien Pontencier, Project Lead of symfony spoke at PHP Quebec this past week and has posted his slides in both French and English.
The one surprise to me on the last slide was the revealing of symfony-forge!
More and More Jobs Out There
Ok, now that I started thinking about it. I know of a lot of jobs available here in LA.
Flash Developer:
Great opportunity to work on super high profile Entertainment/Film/Music websites. Medium to Expert Flash developer wanted, but there might be work for a junior Flash person as well if you are really eager to learn in a fast paced environment.
If you’re interested, let me know.
Web Developer (all around web dev stuff, including PHP/Ruby goodness):
This position would rock, too bad I don’t have the free time to pursue it.
It’s for a major record label, sounds super fun.
PHP Developer:
We’re looking for some kick ass PHP guys at BETA Records. Lots of very cool stuff to get done, soon.
Looking For Work?
Somehow my phone number seems to have ended up on the job recruiting circuit. Ahh, reminds me of the good old days of 99.
Anyway, I’ll try to repost some of these opportunities as they come to me. No reason any PHP/Python developer should be starving these days.
If you’re interested in working on a high profile site/app, either middle tier (LamP|P|P or Java) , and you’d like to work in Pasadena, let me know and I’ll pass on the job description.
There’s a front end dev position as well.
For those that may be interested, but don’t know me personally or my direct contact info, I’d love to publish it here, but something tells me that’s how my number ended up in the recruiting pool in the first place 
(no disrespect to recruiters, just surprised to get cold calls on my cell phone)
If you’re interested, I can usually be found on irc, in the #phpc channel on freenode as jonbauer
Review - Foundations of PEAR
Foundations of PEAR - Rapid PHP Development
Do you use PEAR packages in your PHP web application? Have you inherrited a PEAR based project and debugging it is driving you mad? Do you prefer paper to online documentation? “Foundations of PEAR - Rapid PHP Development” may be a great reference for you. While there are lots of PEAR packages for all sorts of uses, this book focuses on the most powerful packages for website development.
The book is broken up into 10 package categories, Authentication, Utilities and Tools, Dates and Numbers, HTML, Images and Text, Database, Files and Formats, HTTP, XML, and Mail. In each category, anywhere from 3 to 10 packages are documented, each with sections on Common Uses, Related Packages, Dependecies, API, and Examples. Most of what is here can be found on the pear.php.net website, definitions of each public function or method, but the examples are original, and explain the often not-so-obvious practical implementation.
The book finishes with three example PEAR based projects, an Intranet Address Book Website, a Forum, and a web based Calendar. These projects are well documented and illustrate how the building blocks of PEAR packages can really give you amazing power as a PHP developer.
At 610 pages, “Foundation of PEAR - Rapid PHP Development“, is probably not the portable paperback you’ll find yourself curling up by the fireplace with, or tucking away in your back pocket. but if PEAR packages are the core libraries that run your application, this makes a good offline reference for your office library.
PHP Month of Bugs
If you admin any PHP boxen, you may want to pay attention to the PHP Month of Bugs.
Every day during March, new bugs will be posted. Some will be fixable or avoidable, some may require PHP to patch the distribution.
Greater attention to these issues will bring fixes and/or exploits.