Re: PHP Programming Innovation Award

one question though.... how can you tell if a class or package you are writting or want to attempt to write has ever been created before?? 99.99999% of the time anything i ever thought of for classes/packages to write are either too simple or the idea has already been created before... i.e. i want to make something different but dont know how to start with it i guess.... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Manuel Lemos" <mlemos@acm.org> To: <php-general@lists.php.net> Sent: Thursday, April 15, 2004 12:22 AM Subject: [PHP] PHP Programming Innovation Award > PHP Programming Innovation Award is an initiative meant to honor PHP > developers that make outstanding contributions in the form of innovative > classes of objects. > > The initiative has three main goals: encourage regular contributors to > focus efforts contributing innovative components instead of duplicating > the function of previously contributed classes, motivate more skilled > developers to share their work that otherwise would not participate, and > encourage other sites and companies to start similar initiatives, > hopefully different than this, that may foster the growth of PHP Open > Source community by motivating skilled developers to share more valuable > work. > > Any PHP developer can participate with their classes even if they were > already published in other sites. The initiative is repeated every > month. Winning developers may gain prizes provided by well known > sponsors companies that develop products for PHP developers. The > nominees of this month were already announced here: > > http://www.phpclasses.org/vote.html > > More information on the award is available here: > > http://www.phpclasses.org/award/innovation/ > > -- > > Regards, > Manuel Lemos > > PHP Classes - Free ready to use OOP components written in PHP > http://www.phpclasses.org/ > > PHP Reviews - Reviews of PHP books and other products > http://www.phpclasses.org/reviews/ > > Metastorage - Data object relational mapping layer generator > http://www.meta-language.net/metastorage.html > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php >