I am very sad. Two weeks ago, my cousin Sarah had a stroke and died. She was 35, two years younger than me.
As kids, Sarah and I, (along with her sister Rachel) would spend weeks in the summer staying at my grandparents house, playing and doing the things that ten year olds do [...]
Sarah Snow Stever
November 23rd, 2007Benchmarking PHP’s Magic Methods
November 4th, 2007Larry Garfield has an interesting set of benchmarks covering many of PHP’s magic methods. His results correspond pretty well to my own benchmarks in the area. The thing to take away is that its not necessarily the overhead of the magic methods, but rather what you do inside them. Its hard to [...]
The Endpoints of the Scale of Stupidity on Video
November 2nd, 2007A quote from Cal Henderson (via simonwillison) presents a “Web Application Scale of Stupidity:”
| OGF (One Giant Function) —- Sanity —- OOP (Object Oriented Programming) |
The scale that Cal is talking about is actually better known as modularity:
| Few large modules —- Sanity? —- Many Small Modules |
If you haven’t listened to Alan Kay [...]
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