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Really funny video for web developers, unless you use Ruby...
On this episode of the Lately in PHP podcast, Manuel Lemos and Ernani Joppert interview Michael Kimsal from the WebDev publishing company.
They talked about JSClasses, the just launched PHPClasses brother site for JavaScript components.
They also commented on the OpenID based single sign-on system that was implemented to reuse PHPClasses accounts on the JSClasses site to avoid making current PH
Developers everywhere have gotten used to choosing short and cryptic variable names. While this might be ok and up to developer's taste from a development point of view, it's not ok if you look at it from a software lifetime (costs) point of view. The short article gives reasons for a change.
About a year ago I was asked by a client to update their existing web service because of some changes in the way they wanted to process their sales data. Luckily this client has always understood the importance of a Service-Oriented Architecture ( SOA ) since they deal with large amounts of resellers who need to access, edit and create data.
’ve seen a lot of problems solved with regular expressions, but last Friday, thanks to Chris and Sean, I found out that one can use them to determine whether a given integer is a prime number. The original articles showed the following regular expression...
We provide client libraries for our customers in 5 programming languages: Ruby, Python, PHP, C# and Java. Each library is built to help our customers make requests, parse responses and retrieve data from our gateway. We hope they make integrating with Braintree simple and intuitive.
PHP inner functions and the new anonymous functions are a little strange to say the least. However, just because something is strange doesn't mean that it isn't useful. We take a close look at the way PHP functions work.
CMS covers the complete lifecycle of the pages on site, from providing simple tools to create the content, through to publishing, and finally to archiving. End user can edit and manage the website without having to get into the code.
Although PHP didn't start out as an object-oriented language, growing interest in building object-oriented PHP applications led the development team to reconsider PHP's initially weak OOP implementation, making a much more capable and mature set of features available with the version 5 release. These vast improvements opened up an entirely new set of opportunities for the PHP community, includi
The conventional wisdom always said that PHP’s include()/require() was quicker than include_once()/require_once(), but recently I came across an interesting post by Arin Sarkissian which suggests otherwise. Also I found more commentary on the performance benefit of using relative versus absolute paths in include()/require() and include_once()/require_once() statements (although the main article’
Two highly anticipated CMS releases, Drupal 7.x and WordPress 3.x, are both set to appear in the next month or two. Drupal 7 is currently in Alpha release, but is aiming for a Beta release later this month. WordPress is a little bit ahead, having published a Release Candidate on May 28th. In light of the coincidental (?) timing of these two major releases, let’s take a look at some of the new fea
This article will introduce you to that powerful new form of website speed optimization called Fragment Caching. It builds upon ideas used elsewhere to make the technique even more powerful. A PHP implementation is available for download.
Web development in Scala has taken another step forward. Alex Ramos tells us about a new open-source software package that has become available to convert PHP code to Scala. While Wolfgang Kühn, a member of the trading development team at ENBW describes how to translate Scala into Javascript. These two open source projects allow you to convert existing PHP application code to a more maintainable
Do you know which framework is dominant on the web? Have a look at this chart to see which frameworks are hot, and which are not.
Every once in a while I stumble upon interfaces or somebody mentions them to me. Whenever this happens I realise that the use of Interfaces as an OOP key feature in PHP is next to none at all. But why is that?
