I ran across an interesting series of blog posts by Karsten Wagner claiming that OOP is dead (part 2 and part 3). The premise behind these posts is that OOP has failed to deliver and that it is on the decline in favor of more functional or meta programming techniques. Maybe its true […]
I’ve been writing the Test Pattern column in php | architect for a few months now. I’ve been enjoying it because it lets me explore topics in more depth than I could here on my blog. Although, its more challenging and writing is not easy for me.
So far I think my best two […]
Well, I’m finally back in town after the holidays. Let me tell you, I’m glad to be home. Between multiple holidays and taking my grandma to her cancer treatments in Ann Arbor, I was gone far too much of last month.
My Grandma is doing well. They used an experimental new procedure called […]
I was just putting together a small test program and I thought I would try using PDO. I really haven’t done anything serious with PDO, just try it a couple times. After recompiling PHP to include the mysql driver for PDO, I coded up the first version of my test program:
$db = new […]
Tobias Schlitt describes Tim Bray’s talk at the International PHP Conference. (PDF slides) Tim compares PHP, Java, and Rails along several dimensions. One of those dimensions is maintainability. Tim ranks PHP as least maintainable, Rails in the middle, and Java as most maintainable.
This is not a surprising ranking. […]
PHP has been incredibly successful as a deployment platform for web applications. The WordPress blog brags that the WordPress 2.0 series has been downloaded 1.2 million times.
However, PHP as a platform is far from homogenous. With many different versions installed and the vast configurability of php.ini, there can be a great […]
Google engineer Aaron Hopkins wrote a good article on page loading times (via Harry). He talks about the impact of AJAX on page load times, focusing on connection limits, latency and the large number of external objects on your typical AJAX page. He offers a variety of tips on improving page […]
Tobias Schlitt “freaked out” today about PHP Freak’s republishing of his blog feed. He publicly withdraws his implicit permission for PHP Freaks to republish content from his feeds.
This is an interesting area of law. Eric Goldman has an rundown of the issues.
In my mind, there’s no question that a blogger grants an implied […]
Astonishing. I’m quite surprised. I thought PHPUnit was fairly well integrated into PEAR (pear run-tests). I’m not sure if this is a fork, or if PEAR will continue to use PHPUnit as an external dependency?
I’ve never been a PEAR fan. My experiences being peripherally involved with the XML_HTMLSax package weren’t […]
The June issue of PHP Architect is out. My column this month is on dependency injection, a topic which I’ve been warming up to lately.
First there was CORBA. Then insane complexity of CORBA was supplanted by the intolerable complexity of EJB. Influenced by an agile mindset and the power of Unit testing, […]
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