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October' 09 Issue of php|architect Magazine is on store Now

Friday, 27 November 2009 00:01 Chetankumar Akarte

October' 09 Issue of php|architect Magazine is on store Now

October 2009 php|architect issue is focuses on Graphics Manipulation. Vito Chin in his article "Graphic Manipulation with Gmagick" expresses the power of the GraphicsMagick library, Gmagick. Gmagick is an extension for PHP that allows you to create, process, and manipulate graphic images.

php|architect Magazine October 2009

PHP provides great flexibility for image processing, GD Graphic library and ImageMagick helps to empower the PHP's strength. The "Image Creation and Manipulation with GD and ImageMagick" by David Jorm explores the relevant tools, techniques, and some interesting case studies related to the PHP Image processing.

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September' 09 Issue of php|architect Magazine is on store Now

Wednesday, 25 November 2009 13:01 Chetankumar Akarte

September' 09 Issue of php|architect Magazine is on store Now

php|architect in the September 2009 issue come up with some great articles on PHP best practice. Colin McKinnon in his article "Do More With Include Files" discuss some simple rules to improve your productivity and make your code more reliable. Alvaro Videla Godoy In his article, "Refactoring Principles" talk about refactoring as a company process and show how it can help developers to be more responsible toward the quality of the product they are building, resulting in a productivity boost for the whole team. Its good articles to get some keys to boost the moral of the team members to work as a Team.

php|architect Magazine September 2009

Bugfixing is an important as well as integral part of the software development lifecycle. Matthew Weier O’Phinney in his article "Lifecycle of a Bug" going to discuss some about Bugfixing with some resources and tools to improve your bugfixing skills. Svyatoslav Kotusev express a way to "Standardizing Code with CodeSniffer" which helps you to abide by defined corporate coding standards.

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Flash CS4: The Missing Manual

Sunday, 22 November 2009 13:46 Chetankumar Akarte

Flash CS4: The Missing Manual

Over the last 10 years “Flash” is the favorite among the web developer and animator. Designing, animation, multimedia development, Games, Banner and advertising where flash get mostly used. With Flash CS4’s easy to use Panels and Toolbar, we are able to create sophisticated and interaction animation which work smoothly on web, desktop, mobiles and kiosks. Browser and platform (operating system) compatibility are the main features which made Flash popular and people get crazy about it.

Flash is little bit complex but easy to use and easy to learn. “Flash CS4: The Missing Manual” by Chris Grover with E. A. Vander Veer shows you how to get started with Flash CS4. Using this book Beginners will learn to use the software in no time, and experienced Flash designers will improve their skills. To explore flash feature effectively this book is divided into 5 parts viz:

Creating a Flash Animation
Advanced Drawing and Animation
Adding Interactivity
Delivering your Animation to Its Audience
Appendixes

Flash CS4: The Missing Manual

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August' 09 Issue of php|architect Magazine is on store now

Monday, 28 September 2009 23:59 Chetankumar Akarte

August' 09 Issue of php|architect Magazine is on store now

php|architect August 2009 issue focus on non-relational Databases. Russell Smith in his article on "Non-Relational Databases" take an overview and basic use of some alternative styles of databases, more specifically the non-relational databases SimpleDB and CouchDB. Also he illustrate the distinct advantages over more typical relational databases in particular circumstances. "A Tour of the Doctrine ORM" by Ciaran McNulty explains some of the exciting new features of Doctrine 1.1 and shows how using it can lead to faster development and easier deployment.

php|architect Magazine August 2009

phpMyAdmin is a well-known and widely used MySQL administration tool. phpMyAdmin is quite bulky in size, here is a compact alternative of phpMyAdmin consisting of a single file that is easy to upload and delete anywhere. Adminer is a feature complete MySQL administration tool with the aim of compactness. The whole application consists of a single file that is as small as possible. Jakub Vrána take a look on Architecture of "Adminer" and describes its way of reaching that goal of MySQL administration.

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The Manga Guide to Databases

Friday, 25 September 2009 22:48 Chetankumar Akarte

The Manga Guide to Databases

Since my childhood Manga comics are my favorite, pictorial representation of Manga always help me to remember stories than regular text book stories. It always sticks me on the subject and learning just becomes the fun. It’s the same fact for the book “the manga guide to databases” by No Starch Press.

In this book, lovely princes Ruruna try to find out a way to get rid of duplicated and conflicted data. His friend Cain and Tico - the magical database fairy help her to do it. Princess Ruruna’s fruit selling kingdom was using traditional reporting system to maintain sells records, which was a great headache for her. Here Tico help her to solve the issue with the help of relational database.

The Manga Guide to Databases