403. 7 Reasons Why Developers Need to Create their Own Software Product Businesses
Updated on: 2017-03-28
Posted on: 2016-06-20
Many developers are not happy with working for other companies. They do not have much autonomy to work on projects they want, they cannot work from home, they cannot work any time they want, and in the end they get paid a limited amount of money.
The alternative for these unhappy developers is to create their own software products and sell them to many customers. Unfortunately many developers do not know how to get started and become successful.
The good news is that this is the first of series of short videos that will teach developers all they need to know to create their own businesses developing products that the customers really want and will pay for.
Watch this short video to learn about why creating your own products is the right step to be a happier developer, as well how you can attend a free online workshop that will teach the essential steps to achieve that goal.
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The alternative for these unhappy developers is to create their own software products and sell them to many customers. Unfortunately many developers do not know how to get started and become successful.
The good news is that this is the first of series of short videos that will teach developers all they need to know to create their own businesses developing products that the customers really want and will pay for.
Watch this short video to learn about why creating your own products is the right step to be a happier developer, as well how you can attend a free online workshop that will teach the essential steps to achieve that goal.



399. How to Automate Actions on Apple Mac OS X using a PHP Shell Script for Automator
Updated on: 2016-06-08
Posted on: 2016-06-08
Automator is an applications for Apple's Mac OS X that can automate tasks using scripts for performing many types of automated routines.
Automator can be configured to automate tasks using scripts of several possible languages.
Read this article to learn how to automate tasks with Automator using PHP as scripting language to implement those tasks.
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Automator can be configured to automate tasks using scripts of several possible languages.
Read this article to learn how to automate tasks with Automator using PHP as scripting language to implement those tasks.



396. Using Microsoft Visual Studio as PHP IDE with the PHP Tools extension: Part 2 Developing a CRUD application with a noSQL database
Updated on: 2016-06-01
Posted on: 2016-06-01
There are many IDEs for PHP development. All of them provide common features but when we get closer we notice that there are some that provide different features that make them better for our purposes.
Thanks to the PHP Tools extension it is possible to use Microsoft Visual Studio for PHP development and benefit from some of Visual Studio features for this purpose.
Read this tutorial article to learn about the way it works for developing a practical PHP application, in this case a CRUD application based on a noSQL JSON file database.
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Thanks to the PHP Tools extension it is possible to use Microsoft Visual Studio for PHP development and benefit from some of Visual Studio features for this purpose.
Read this tutorial article to learn about the way it works for developing a practical PHP application, in this case a CRUD application based on a noSQL JSON file database.



394. PHP Articles Report May 2016 Edition
Updated on: 2016-05-30
Posted on: 2016-05-30
This is the May edition of the podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the latest outstanding PHP Articles published recently.
They commented on articles about using a plugin to insert charts and graphs on WordPress posts, how to prepare to technical interview for jobs, 10 aspects on which BitBucket is better than GitHub, converting HTML to PDF using an API, using Microsoft Visual Studio as your PHP IDE with PHP Tools extension, and the main changed and new functions in PHP 7.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles.
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They commented on articles about using a plugin to insert charts and graphs on WordPress posts, how to prepare to technical interview for jobs, 10 aspects on which BitBucket is better than GitHub, converting HTML to PDF using an API, using Microsoft Visual Studio as your PHP IDE with PHP Tools extension, and the main changed and new functions in PHP 7.
Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles.



391. Detecting Malicious Users behind Anonymous Proxies using IP2Proxy
Updated on: 2016-05-23
Posted on: 2016-05-23
Proxy servers are used by many users to bypass Web site restrictions. Sometimes malicious users are hiding behind proxies to commit fraud because a third party anonymous server is hiding their real location.
Fortunately it is possible to detect when users are behind proxies by looking up their IP address using IP2Proxy databases of known proxies.
Read this article to learn how to use IP2Proxy database to detect when users are behind proxies, so you can take the necessary measures to avoid that those users may cause some kind of harm.
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Fortunately it is possible to detect when users are behind proxies by looking up their IP address using IP2Proxy databases of known proxies.
Read this article to learn how to use IP2Proxy database to detect when users are behind proxies, so you can take the necessary measures to avoid that those users may cause some kind of harm.



386. How to Contribute to PHP Development Writing phpt Tests
Updated on: 2016-05-17
Posted on: 2016-05-17
The main PHP development comes with test suite that evolved over the years to test all sorts of aspects of the PHP features. The definition of the tests are written in text files in a format called phpt.
Read this article to learn how to create phpt tests, so you can help making PHP a more robust language with the least bugs as possible.
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Read this article to learn how to create phpt tests, so you can help making PHP a more robust language with the least bugs as possible.



385. Get the Coding Job You Want
Updated on: 2016-05-16
Posted on: 2016-05-16
Evolving in your career as software developer often means seeking a better job than you have now.
Read this article to learn about 3 important tips that will help you in the journey to get the coding job you want.
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Read this article to learn about 3 important tips that will help you in the journey to get the coding job you want.



383. Fast Debugging of PHP Code Using PHPEd Part 2: Debugging Symfony Applications
Updated on: 2016-05-10
Posted on: 2016-05-10
In the first part of this article it was covered how we can take advantage of a PHP IDE like PHPEd to find and fix bugs using its debugger capabilities.
Read this part of the article to learn how to debug a framework based application, specifically using Symfony, combining the power of PHPEd debugger and common framework principles to debug code faster.
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Read this part of the article to learn how to debug a framework based application, specifically using Symfony, combining the power of PHPEd debugger and common framework principles to debug code faster.



380. PHP 7 Migration Guide Part 4: New Classes, Interfaces and New Global Constants
Updated on: 2016-05-05
Posted on: 2016-05-05
In the previous part of this migration guide tutorial series it was covered new and changed functions in PHP 7.
But maybe more interesting to all developers that live and breathe Object Oriented Programming every day is what is new in terms of built-in classes and interfaces.
Read this article to learn not only about new classes and interfaces added in PHP 7 but also relevant global constants.
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But maybe more interesting to all developers that live and breathe Object Oriented Programming every day is what is new in terms of built-in classes and interfaces.
Read this article to learn not only about new classes and interfaces added in PHP 7 but also relevant global constants.



379. Turn Your WordPress Site into More Than One Blog with the Easy Content Types Plugin
Updated on: 2016-05-04
Posted on: 2016-05-04
WordPress started as a blogging platform but thanks to many thousands of plugins, nowadays it can be practically anything else other than a blog.
The custom post types feature is very powerful because it can turn what would be a blog post page into anything, as long as you know how to take advantage of it or you can use a plugin to simplify your task.
Read this article to learn about the Easy Content Types plugin and you can use it to easily create new custom post types, taxonomies and meta boxes.
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The custom post types feature is very powerful because it can turn what would be a blog post page into anything, as long as you know how to take advantage of it or you can use a plugin to simplify your task.
Read this article to learn about the Easy Content Types plugin and you can use it to easily create new custom post types, taxonomies and meta boxes.


