Professional PHP

Del.icio.us has been down for a while. I use it for my public bookmarks, which are listed on the side of this blog. Here is a post with some recent random things that I would bookmark if I could.

• The departure of the hyper-enthusiasts – “The Java hyper-enthusiasts have left the building” (along the lines of this.)
• The New Methodology – Martin Fowler describes Agile methodologies — recently updated.
• PHP on Caucho – PHP on the JVM.
• XML 2.0 – some thoughts on XML 2.0.
• Web Patterns – Under construction — check back later.
• Web Design Patterns.
• Carnival of the Agilists.

I’m currently adding UTF-8 support to and generally improving WACT’s “liberal” xml/html parser. A few sources of tests cases and information:

• Who knows a title from a hole in the ground?
• FeedBurner feeds give heartburn to PHP XML parsers?
• Web SGML and HTML 4.0 explained
• CDATA confusion
• Comment syntax in SGML and HTML
• Empty elements in SGML, HTML, XML, and XHTML
• Comparison of SGML and XML
• Extensible Markup Language (XML) Conformance Test Suites
• Ian Hixie’s HTML parsing test cases
• Conformance Testing for XML and Related Technologies
• Universal Feed Parser liberal feed parser with many test cases.
• XHTML test cases

• UTF-8 and Unicode FAQ for Unix/Linux
• bad UTF-8 test files
• The W3C Markup Validation Service: Tests