Around the PHP Community (Atlanta PHP January 2009)

For new and veteran PHP programmers alike, it’s often difficult to find the right place to ask questions and find the best answers and solutions to programming challenges. This month, Ben Ramsey takes us on a journey through the PHP Community to discover the websites the experts use to get PHP news and information and the places they go to ask for help (because even experts need help). He’ll wrap up the talk with a brief who’s who in the PHP Community, introducing you to some of the core developers and familiar faces around the community.

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1. around the Ben Ramsey 8 Jan 2009 • Atlanta PHP
2. The PHP Projects
3. php.net
4. pear.php.net
5. pecl.php.net
6. gtk.php.net
7. qa.php.net
8. Getting Help
9. phpfreaks.com
10. codewalkers.com
11. phpbuilder.com
12. devshed.com/c/b/PHP/
13. devnetwork.net
14. pear-forum.org
15. sitepoint.com
16. atlantaphp.org
17. RTFM! http://php.net/manual
18. Mailing Lists
19. Mailing Lists • php-general@lists.php.net
 news://news.php.net/php.general • php-windows@lists.php.net
 news://news.php.net/php.windows • pear-general@lists.php.net
 news://news.php.net/php.pear.general • http://news.php.net
20. Internet Relay Chat
21. IRC • ##php on Freenode • #pear on EFNet • #mysql on Freenode • #apache on Freenode • #phpc on Freenode • #atlantaphp on Freenode
22. Getting on IRC • XChat -- http://www.xchat.org • XChat Aqua -- 
 http://xchataqua.sourceforge.net • Colloquy -- http://colloquy.info • mIRC -- http://www.mirc.com • irssi -- http://irssi.org
23. Getting on IRC • Freenode: http://freenode.net • EFNet: http://efnet.org • Join a channel:
 /join ##php
24. Must-Read Books
25. Beginning PHP5, Apache, MySQL Web Development by Elizabeth Naramore, Jason Gerner, Yann Le Scouarnec, Jeremy Stolz, Michael K. Glass
26. PHP and MySQL Web Development by Luke Welling and Laura Thomson
27. Learning PHP 5 by David Sklar
28. PHP Cookbook by David Sklar and Adam Trachtenberg
29. Advanced PHP Programming by George Schlossnagle
30. Essential PHP Security by Chris Shiflett
31. Zend PHP 5 Certification Study Guide by Davey Shafik and Ben Ramsey
32. News & Information
33. phpdeveloper.org
34. phparch.com
35. c7y.phparch.com
36. devzone.zend.com
37. phpinfo.com
38. The PHP Blogosphere
39. planet-php.net
40. Andrei Zmievski http://gravitonic.com @a on twitter PHP core developer Unicode/PHP 6 PHP-GTK Smarty
41. Brett Bieber http://saltybeagle.com @saltybeagle on Twitter PEAR developer
42. Cal Evans http://blog.calevans.com @CalEvans on Twitter Director of the PHP Center of Expertise at IBuildings Formerly Editor-in-Chief of Zend DevZone
43. Chris Shiflett http://shiflett.org @shiflett on Twitter PHP security expert CTO at OmniTI
44. Chris Jones http://blogs.oracle.com/opal @ghrd on Twitter Works for Oracle oci8 & PDO_OCI
45. Davey Shafik http://www.pixelated-dreams.com @dshafik on Twitter Author and speaker
46. David Sklar http://www.sklar.com/blog Author and speaker Software Architect at Ning
47. Derick Rethans http://derickrethans.nl @derickrethans on Twitter PHP core developer DateTime
48. Ed Finkler http://funkatron.com @funkatron on Twitter Author and speaker RIA expert Creator of Spaz
49. Eli White http://eliw.wordpress.com @EliW on Twitter Author and speaker Zend’s new Community Guy
50. Elizabeth Marie Smith http://elizabethmariesmith.com @auroraeosrose on Twitter PHP core dev PHP Windows geek PHP-GTK Co-founder of PHPWomen.org
51. Elizabeth Naramore http://www.naramore.net/blog @ElizabethN on Twitter Co-founder of PHPWomen.org Editor at php|architect php|tek & php|works Conference Chair
52. Gopal Vijayaraghavan http://t3.dotgnu.info/blog @t3rmin4t0r on Twitter PHP core developer pecl/apc
53. Greg Beaver http://greg.chiaraquartet.net PEAR developer PHAR Cello player
54. I’m running over time.
    Check out my personal blogroll for more!
55. benramsey.com
56. Q & A