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		<title>Caching For WordPress &#8211; A TEK-X Webinar</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 Apr 2010 15:17:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who has worked with WordPress knows that it&#8217;s greatest strength is also one of it&#8217;s greatest weaknesses: it&#8217;s architecture. The same architecture that makes it easy to include literally hundreds of plugins also makes it slow, resource-intensive and bulky. Unlike Drupal, WordPress doesn&#8217;t have a built-in caching mechanism. What is a developer to do? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Encouraging Open Source Contribution</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 11:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Leaders of the open source community are always trying to encourage others to contribute. Volunteer contributors are always in short supply, and most open source projects are driven by volunteers, so recruitment is a big component of any open source project lead. Elizabeth Naramore put together a great list of reasons why people tend to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Reasons To Attend PHP Conferences</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Feb 2010 06:00:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Recently, php&#124;architect announced that they were extending the early bird pricing for the TEK-X conference being held this year in Chicago, IL. As someone who has been and will be going this year, this conference represnts a great opportunity for anyone who hasn&#8217;t gone to a PHP conference to attend one. There are some good [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Learning From Other Communities</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Dec 2009 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last week, Aaron Brazell posted a blog entry about the state of the WordPress and PHP communities. At the same time, Keith Casey was in Redmond, Washington, where he was experiencing the Microsoft Web Developer&#8217;s Conference. As so often seems to happen with &#8220;Aha!&#8221; moments, both men came to pretty much the same realization at [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Great Development Tools Don&#8217;t Seem To Be Written In PHP</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Dec 2009 06:00:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Trac. CruiseControl. phpUnderControl. Jira. Bugzilla. These are all intensely popular development tools. And not a single one of them is written in PHP. Why? Trac is written in Python. CruiseControl is written in Java, and phpUnderControl is built on top of CruiseControl. Jira is written in Java and is a commercial program. Bugzilla is written [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lessons Learned From An Impromptu Job Search</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When I lost my job on October 12th, I knew that the PHP community was an invaluable resource for finding a new one. What I didn&#8217;t expect, though, was the outpouring of support and assistance I would receive from that community. I learned a lot of lessons from the job search, and thankfully, largely due [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP Depends On You</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 05:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[bug report]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Anyone who reads my frequent pleas to involve yourself in the community knows that I&#8217;m a big fan of community development of open source projects. PHP is one of the world&#8217;s largest open source projects. And if I haven&#8217;t convinced you yet that you need to contribute, perhaps this will help encourage you. Professionals (those [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Lies, Damned Lies, And Benchmarks &#8211; Redux!</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 13 Aug 2009 15:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[PHP 5]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upon request of the PHP community, Joe Stagner conducted additional tests of PHP, using both PHP 5.3 and APC. In his article he also revisits the questions raised by myself and Andi Gutmans about the fairness of his tests. The new tests reveal that APC doesn&#8217;t do much to improve the performance of his applications. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ethics For Programmers?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Doctors, lawyers and engineers are required by their professions to receive certifications and follow certain ethical guidelines. These rules exist to protect those who rely on their services. These professions often have access to sensitive information, or could wreck lives if they are remiss in their responsibilities. Business schools teach ethics, and despite the lapses [...]]]></description>
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		<title>PHP 5.3 Not In Next Version Of Ubuntu</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 13:31:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When the next version of Ubuntu is released on October 29th, PHP developers won&#8217;t be able to upgrade to PHP 5.3 through the included package management tools. A meeting of the development team on July 30th nixed the inclusion of PHP 5.3 from inclusion in Karmic, the next iteration of Ubuntu for the desktop and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Of Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 00:19:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brandon Savage</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The PHP Community is a fairly large, rules-free community of people who share a common interest in programming. Many of us hang out on Twitter, our own blogs, or on IRC (usually on Freenode #phpc). So some events of the day certainly caught me by surprise. This afternoon, while hanging out in a lesser known [...]]]></description>
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