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PHP Development From Java Architects Eye

April 23rd, 2005

Simple Thoughts blog has a post on PHP development from a Java architects eyes. This post highlights the paradigm difference between programming in PHP and programming in Java:

In PHP multi-threaded programming using ticks is rather primitive, to put it politely. I couldn’t find any way to share data between multiple invocations of the script, […]

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PHP versus ASP

April 21st, 2005

Here is a link dump of some PHP versus ASP discussions that I have run across lately:

ASP v PHP discussion at Webmaster World.
A report from someone who switched from ASP to PHP.
PHP versus ASP.NET via Oracle.
A rebuttal from the ASP point of view.

And just so java doesn’t feel left out:
Can Java CMS match the PHP […]

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Installing PEAR Based Applications

April 19th, 2005

Ok, Greg Beaver’s work on channels has resurrected my interest in PEAR. I am interested in providing WACT on a PEAR channel and I’d like to better integrate WACT with some PEAR packages. My primary concern is over the installation implications.
I didn’t find a “powered by PEAR” section on the PEAR website. […]

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Mouse problems with Safari 1.3 after using Expose

April 19th, 2005

I’ve been impressed by the new JavaScript speed of Safari 1.3, but since upgrading to 10.3.9, I’ve started having a problem with using Safari and Expose. After I use Expose to select a Safari window, Mouse events appear to get screwed up:

The cursor does not change to a hand when moving the mouse over […]

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php testing and coverage

April 8th, 2005

I ran across this O’Reily article about SpikeSource today. Very interesting.
They have released a coverage reporting tool, Spike PHP Coverage, for PHP that works with XDebug coverage data. It works with Simple Test and it seems to be able aggregate the results of remote test runs, such as for web based tests. […]

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Documentation versus Productivity?

April 4th, 2005

Require once is part of your documenation points out an interesting case.
Consider that you have two programs, A and B. A and B share some duplicated code. Since duplicate code is bad, we factor out the duplicate code into file C (for common). Both A and B include C. All is […]

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