QEDWiki is way cool... Another shining star from IBM and Zend check out this article on Zend Developer Zone... with the links... impatient view the screencast here
Think a wiki page where you drag and drop page widgets and web services to build something "way cool"...
There and Back Again is Joshua Eichorn's AJAX and PHP blog... pretty cool he wrote the book Understanding AJAX ... one cool example is his Webthumb Rendering Engine which creates a series of "thumbnail" images of any web site ...
PHP 4 / Pear tutorial at topwebnews.com
I listen to lots of podcasts... here are some of my favorite ones of the geek persausion you can visit the sites and subscribe if you dare ... people will make fun of you..
Lullabot / Drupal Podcast I really like this one... total focus on Drupal and pretty funny at times.
php|architect's PRO::PHP podcastThis is pretty good -- news and interviews
WebDevRadio I have not listened to this one...
Here are some of the Web API's that I want to experiment with more:
I use the Eclipse devlopment environment withPHPeclipse for my PHP / Drupal coding. It is not a lightweight program but it is very powerful and works fine on my computer with 1 GIG of RAM. I like that it connects to CVS and Subversion ... I have my own Subversion site to keep my code "safe" and many open source projects use CVS so right from the IDE you can get the code and create a new project.
There is quite a learning curve but its not too hard. I don't have the internal debugging working yet but ...
PHP 5, JSON from pecl cvs, Map Tile API and the Yui Connection Manager. Toss them in a bag and shake and you get something like this. Enter a city name, or even a pseudo-name like Philly or SFO and hit return. Each time you enter a new name you will get a map tile for that city.
Pretty elementary but if that is what you are looking for check it out.
Zend Developer Zone PHP 101 -- for the absolute beginner. A series of 15 pretty good tutorials with working code that can help you learn what is going on ...
check out this article on zend using PHP5+
is this easy enough:
$client = new
SoapClient(
"http://services.xmethods.net/soap/urn:xmethods-delayed-quotes.wsdl"
);
print($client->getQuote("ibm"));
?>
