Professional PHP

Rebecca Wirfs-Brock suggests that it may be time for the GoF Design Patterns book to be refreshed. She points out that the C++ and graphics programming examples may be less relevant to today’s C# and Java programmers. She implies that state of the art has advanced in the twelve years since the book […]

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 […]