Excited About PHP Again
Thursday, February 2nd, 2012Ten months ago when I started at Mozilla, I began transitioning away from PHP and into Python and Django. This was inevitable: the Mozilla Webdev team favors Python over PHP in almost every webapp (Socorro is the critical exception). However, over time I had become disillusioned with the direction that PHP was taking. The project [...]
10:23 pm | Comment (3) | Print | Categories: General PHP, Software DevelopmentJuly Slides
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010July was a month of talks and travel, including speaking at OSCON and user group talks to DCPHP and PDXPHP.
11:28 am | Comment (4) | Print | Categories: Conferences, Object-Oriented Development, PHP 5, System Architecture, TechnologyInterfaces Make Testing Easier
Wednesday, May 26th, 2010I, along with others, have written on interfaces many times before but recently I had occasion to find a new thing about them that makes them really awesome. A few days ago I was tasked with implementing PHPUnit against a Zend Framework application. This application, like many others, makes use of Zend_Auth, and in doing [...]
7:00 am | Comment (5) | Print | Categories: Object-Oriented Development, TechnologyPHP: The Good Parts – Book Review
Monday, May 3rd, 2010Wez Furlong received a copy of PHP: The Good Parts as a thank you for his participation as a technical reviewer, and loaned it to me for a read. After reading it, I wanted to put together a brief review of the book for those who might be interested in this new title from O’Reilly.
7:00 am | Comment (5) | Print | Categories: Reviews, TechnologyA Closer Look At ArrayObject
Monday, April 26th, 2010Every once in a while I discover a really cool, really underutilized component in PHP and I just have to write about it. I recently discovered (through my use of Zend Framework) the implementation of the ArrayObject class.
7:00 am | Comment (12) | Print | Categories: PHP 5, Technology
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