This is a follow up post to Why isn’t PHP the natural successor to Java?
Joshua Eichorn (among others) notices that active record can’t work as shown in the Zend Framework webcast. The syntax presented during the web cast is not possible in PHP because of inherited static methods are treated. Mike Naberezny notes [...]
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 [...]
O’Reilly radar has an interesting graph of 2004 versus 2005 book sales for a variety of languages. The big news is that Ruby books sales are up 1552% and Java book sales are down 4%. This would be consistent with my observations from Why isn’t PHP the natural successor to Java. A [...]
It looks there is a Mambo worm out now. I read Hackers Hitting Popular Apps a couple of weeks ago and it mentioned that hackers are targeting PHP apps among other things. Dog bites man for some. More interesting was this quote:
“The bottom line is that security has been set back nearly [...]
I guess I missed the Zend PHP Framework webcast on Friday. I was looking forward to it, but I signed up a while ago and forgot about it. By the time I got the reminder email, it was too late. Fortunately, the recording is now available. If you have an interest [...]
Tobias Schlitt has a lengthy comparison of the new ezComponents and PEAR. He goes to great lengths to show that ezComponents and PEAR do not compete.
I’ve also seen some ill informed speculation that Zend PHP Framework will kill off PEAR. Um, not gonna happen. PEAR is a library, not a framework. [...]
There is recent interest in consolidating Java frameworks with similar approaches. WebWork is joining Struts, which surprised me. Along the same lines, the Java Web Alignment group brings together many big players in the Java framework space:
The Java web framework landscape has become quite fragmented; the purpose of this group is to explore [...]
PHP 5.1.0 is out. There is alot of good stuff in this release and it is a major milestone. May PHP 5.1.2 be as successful as PHP 4.1.2.
I say 5.1.2 because it looks like there are is going to be at least one, possibly two bug fix releases to follow. There is [...]
Derick Rethans has posted the notes from the recent PHP 6 meeting in Paris. All I can say is wow! PHP has a bright future. Good job guys.
I’ve also been impressed with the new upgrade notes for 5.1. Good job there, too.
I’ve read over the whole thing and I like what [...]
preg_replace is a workhorse PHP function, but it has a couple of escaping gotchas that can cause it to yield unexpected or undesirable results.
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