Just as we had a blog movement back in March, thanks to Stuart Herbert we now have a new one for October - Oktober(blog)fest! :)

The rules are easy:

• Write a post called Oktober(blog)Fest.
• List some of the reasons you like blogs.
• Pledge to blog more the rest of the month.
• Share your thoughts on Twitter with the #oktoberblogfest hashtag.
• If we all blog a little more than we normally would this month, maybe we can be reminded of all of the reasons blogs are great.

Well, here I am, pledging that I'll be blogging a bit more in the coming days/weeks/months. I really do like blogging, don't know why am I so lazy about it.

Don't expect anything revolutionary from me tho, heh. An update or two from this weeks Webkonf and maybe some news from the Zend Framework 2 world :)

Happy hackin'!

Apparently there's this new movement in the PHP community, "Ideas of March", where we all pledge that we will blog more about PHP and web dev and the community in general. So here I am, doing the same :)

This will be a real test for me because for the 2 and a half years of this blog I've published merely 60 posts. Why? Mostly because I was (am?) scared to just write more about things I'm interested in. But, as I really do like blogging and letting my thoughts out I'll just have to do my best to write more :) and yes, it'll still mostly be PHP related with some linux or javascript stuff here and there :)

To see who pledged to blog more in March, check out the list on PHPDeveloper or follow the movement on Twitter #ideasofmarch.

Happy bloggin'!

This week on Wednesday, finally one of my pet projects has hit the Internets! PHPPlaneta.net is alive!

It's idea is to be a community website for PHP programmers from Serbia and other countries from the region. The idea for this website "hit" me somewhere in April or May I think, while I was lurking the interwebs for some, any PHP communities in the region, user groups, anything really, where local PHP programmers could share ideas, news, interests, etc., but found nothing (well, besides 2 bulletin boards and a few of us on Twitter). So, I decided to try and create one.

Of course, this website is only the first step. The purpose of this website is to share news, articles and whatnot with other programmers, something like Mr. Cornutt does on phpdeveloper.org ;) There's not much up there yet, but that'll change soon :) Altho the functionality of the website is pretty simple and I could've put it out in like 2 hours with wordpress, I wrote it from scratch (using Zend Framework of course!), just, well, because I can :D Once I tidy up the code and maybe refactor here and there, it'll be up on github (multiple reasons for putting it up there, but that's for some other post).

I have other ideas for the future, both online and offline related, but first want to put this website on it's feet.

So, here's to a better and brighter future for PHP communities around here!

Happy hacking!