how about woking on open source projects? Best regards, Sharl.Jimh.Tsin (From China) 2010/10/8 Nathan Rixham <nrixham@xxxxxxxxx>: > Rakesh Mishra wrote: >> >> Hi All, >> >> I Âam PHP 4 & PHP 5 developer for last 6 yrs. Last year Âalso got Zend >> certification. >> Since now I have work on different CMS, Social Networking, telecome , >> horse >> racing domains. >> >> But now I am little bored with developing website. What other things I can >> do with PHP ? >> >> Even I believe my knowledge, interest, & market value Âwith PHP 5 is >> getting >> saturated. >> Do you guys suggest me what other thing I can learn or work which help me >> to >> keep my lust for PHP alive >> and also boost my career. > > I suggest you concentrate less on the language and more on: > Â- interesting / challenging projects > Â- using PHP with other new interesting technologies > Â- applying design / programming paradigms from other languages in PHP > Â- contributing to PHP internals > > Status.net, GNU Social, DISO Project, lorea.cc and elgg all occupy a rather > interesting project space with small but inspiring communities of people who > like to push technical boundaries and merge technologies, particularly > within the social space. > > http://www.ushahidi.com/platform is a thriving project which combines > technical excellence and forward thinking with real world large scale > community needs, being critical in several major world events, even if you > don't get involved, their code bases for ushahidi + related on > http://github.com/ushahidi is brilliant, likewise the swiftriver project > http://swift.ushahidi.com/ doesn't look much on the face of it but is really > good - just check out the SwiftRiver Research at the right. > > There are many interesting protocol based communities who often implement in > PHP, and these can be rather interesting / challenging and active spaces - > ActivityStreams, Salmon-Protocol, OneSocialWeb to name just a few. > > On the technology side of things, you may want to consider going down the > NoSQL route for a while, http://nosql-database.org/ gives a good summary of > database - I'd recommend CouchDB, MongoDB and Redis for a nice well > supported start that will introduce you to new design paradigms and bring > many performance increases to your applications. > > Alternatively you may find it refreshing to try some other languages, > perhaps a functional language like Scala, OCaml or Haskell, or maybe in to a > very active language such as ECMAScript (server side js) via something like > http://node.js/ you may just find that you don't want to use PHP any more, > or you may find that you want to apply the paradigms and lessons learned to > PHP using the new features in 5.3 > > Hope that helps a little, I'll stop here because I could list projects till > the end of time! > > Many Regards > > Nathan > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
