In a recent post to his blog Eric Reis talks about “why PHP won” in his web application development over other (web scripting) languages:
Some of them are probably still cursing my name, because – let’s face it – PHP can be pretty painful. As a language, it’s inelegant. Its object-orientation support is “much improved” – [...]
On the Symfony blog today there’s a new post from Fabien Potencier about a new book that’s just been released and might be of interest to those wanting to get into the framework – Practical Symfony.
Two years after the publishing of “The Definitive Guide to symfony” book, I am happy to announce that the Jobeet [...]
Adding on a bit more to a previous post of his look at test isolation (ex. global variables from one test do not effect any others’) with an update he’s made to the PHPUnit code concerning the isolation.
Since the previous posting, I have added a backup/restore mechanism for static attributes of classes to PHPUnit. This [...]
If you’re looking to start up that next great PHP project and want a little guidance on how to get the ball rolling, you should check out these helpful hints from Michael Kimsal for launching a new web project.
My background is *not* marketing, specifically, although I’ve been involved in a number of web projects’ launches [...]
NETTUTS.com has posted an introduction (using the Car analogy, of course) to teach you how to use the basics of object-oriented programming in PHP.
PHP is so much more than a scripting language. It’s a full-fledged language capable of building very complex applications. By harnessing the full power of Object Oriented Programming, you can reduce the [...]
Padraic Brady has posted two more updates in his “Zend Framework Page Caching” series – an “A” and “B” for the third part looking at tagging the static files you’ve cached from the output of your pages.
Expiring multiple caches linked to a specific change is easy to accomplish using Tagging, where we tag caches with [...]
According to this new post on the NetBeans blog (from Sun), native support has been added to the IDE for PHPUnit, a popular PHP-based unit testing utility.
Today I would like to inform you that we have added PHPUnit support to NetBeans. It is not finished yet (UI for test results is still missing) but I [...]
Latest PECL Releases:
memcache 3.0.3
imagick 2.2.2RC3
Shawn Straton has posted the second part of his look at code readability today. This time the focus is on the structure of the code – file structure, code layout, etc.
I’ve had the pleasure of
maintaining a legacy application developed by people who were past
deadline the second they had their assignment handed to them in the
past [...]
Padraic Brady has posted the first two (and a half) parts of his look at caching in Zend Framework applications – the first looking at general caching and the other, more specifically, at caching in the controller.
Zend Framework Page Caching: Part 1: Building A Better Page Cache
Zend Framework Page Caching: Part 2: Controller Based Cache [...]
Eric Reis’ Blog: Why PHP won