28
Apr

PHP job position open

Over the past few week, the company were i currently work, just opened an additional PHP developer position, the required skills are:

  • Professional experience with :
    • PHP 5.3 +
    • XML
    • Xsd
    • SOAP
  • University degree, preferable in Computers, Math or Physics
  • Bonus points: Zend Certified Engineer (PHP 5.3)

Looking for candidates from all over the world.

Full time remote job position for the right candidate.

Just contact me, jose (at) josedasilva (dot) net for more details.

04
Mar

XSD – XML Schema Quick intro

On this quick post i will try to explain the basics of understanding a .xsd file.

What is a XSD file ?

XSD stands for Xml Schema Definition, and has the name indicates defines every element on your XML file.

Simple Element

A simple element is one element that contains only text, can’t contain any other element.

Example of a simple element:

<xs:element name=”age” type=”xs:integer”/>

This will result on the following XML data:

<age>12</age>

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01
Mar

PHP 5.4 Officially released

PHP 5.4 was officially released as a stable version. There are some new features on this PHP version, but maybe the surprisingly one is: it comes with a built-in web server for development purposes.

What’s new on PHP 5.4 (Key Features) :

  • Traits
  • Shortened Array Syntax
  • Built-in web server for development purposes

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28
Feb

Don’t do this if you’re starting a project

Most of successful companies started with one idea and a prototype. Most probably you are one of the many entrepreneur over the world that have plenty of ideas that would give a great project or product. There are 3 important points you should never forget about, otherwise you’ll fail big.

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22
Feb

PHP and MongoDB Web Development – The book

Just been analyzing the “PHP and MongoDB Web Development ” book, by Packt Publishing.

The books introduces the audience to usage of MongoDB including:

  • Brief introduction to NOSQL movement
  • Installing MongoDB
  • Creating databases on MongoDB and definition of Document and Collections.

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