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PHP Magazine
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:03 am
by jaoudestudios
After a lot of searching, I have only come across 1 php magazine!
Am I wrong? Are there more and I just dont know about them?
If I was to start a PHP Magazine, would you download it? (in the future hopefully have a printable version). Would you write an article for it?
I would be interested to hear your thoughts...?
Re: PHP Magazine
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 7:37 am
by Darhazer
This is the wrong forum for the topic, IMO, maybe General Discussions is more appropriate one.
I know only the phpArchitect's magazine, is it the same magazine you are talking about.
If you start a magazine, I will download the first issue to see it, as well as any issue I see some interesting title in. If the articles are good enough, I even would pay for it.
As for writing articles, it's something that can be discussed.
Re: PHP Magazine
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:00 am
by jaoudestudios
Thanks
Darhazer for your comments. You are probably right, this might be the wrong forum to post in, my bad if it is - I am sure one of the moderators will move it accordingly.
Yes phpArch is the magazine I was talking about. I plan to read a few of these to get an idea of their approach and see if I can do something better or different or both
My thoughts & and plans are for the pdf download to be free (including historic versions) but if and when I do a printed version, I would have to charge to cover the print costs. I dont see it as a money making scheme but more as a chance to give back to the community and to get involved in another way besides coding.
I would like to include lots of articles (thoughts, tutorials etc) written by other developers to kind of have an 'Open Source Magazine' - if that is possible.
Initially it would probably only be a quarterly release, but as more people come on board, hopefully move to monthly releases.
Re: PHP Magazine
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 8:19 am
by Darhazer
If you want to write articles, you can commit them to phpArchitect.
The think that I dislike in allowing such contributions is the lack of quality. I've read several articles at phpArchitect that really sux. One of those claimed that creating an ML site in the relational way is bad approach, and the best one is to break even the first form of normalization, creating as many fields for the text in the table, as the count of supported languages is.
What I want to say is that a good magazine needs good editor at first place.
Re: PHP Magazine
Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2009 11:48 am
by jaoudestudios
Darhazer wrote:If you want to write articles, you can commit them to phpArchitect.
I am sure that is possible.
Darhazer wrote:The think that I dislike in allowing such contributions is the lack of quality. I've read several articles at phpArchitect that really sux. One of those claimed that creating an ML site in the relational way is bad approach, and the best one is to break even the first form of normalization, creating as many fields for the text in the table, as the count of supported languages is.
What I want to say is that a good magazine needs good editor at first place.
But like you said, its about quality, and I believe we do have some very clever people here who have never thought about submitting an article to phpArch because it is so commercial. Whereas if a magazine was made closer to home (or more open source - not sure if that is correct way of putting it yet), then they would. Not only would it help other people who read the magazine but the developers who wrote the article.
It is good for someone to play devils advocate

, so please continue.
Re: PHP Magazine
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 2:15 am
by jaoudestudios
Re: PHP Magazine
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:36 am
by Darhazer
And I've joined

What about generic DevNetwork LinkedIn Group?
Re: PHP Magazine
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2009 3:46 am
by jaoudestudios
Darhazer wrote:
And I've joined
Cool

, & so have 19 others already!
Re: PHP Magazine
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 12:40 am
by jaoudestudios
36 hours later and over 55 members! Thanks people and keep those ideas coming.
I am still working on the website, I should have a few pages up by the end of the weekend
http://www.opensourcewebmagazine.com
Re: PHP Magazine
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 1:31 am
by Griven
Joined.
Re: PHP Magazine
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2009 5:49 am
by jaoudestudios
Excellent!
60+ members now, with some great ideas.
Anyone going to write an article regarding DevNet? Even if it is just a small one.
Re: PHP Magazine
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:19 pm
by jaoudestudios
over 110 members in a week, nice people! I still need a few more volunteers for article write/review.
Re: PHP Magazine
Posted: Sat Oct 10, 2009 7:28 pm
by John Cartwright
Moved to General Discussion.
Re: PHP Magazine
Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:55 pm
by markusn00b
Brilliant. I'd love to write/review articles.
