
A portion of code makes an assumption about something: the current state of the object, or of the parameter, or of a local variable of the cycle. Normally this...
0 replies - 3808 views - 10/31/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Develop in PHP, use Codeigniter? There's a good chance you do (unless you're using Zend).Develop in HTML5? Might want to think about HTML5 Boilerplate or...
1 replies - 9357 views - 10/31/11 by John Esposito in Articles

Today I have another interesting article for PHP. We will talking
about caching, and the practice of using caching in php. I will review APC caching and will...
0 replies - 3860 views - 10/29/11 by Andrey Prikaznov in Articles

Old habits die hard; old language habits die harder; old programming
habits die hardest, especially when the habit first developed from a
defect in the...
1 replies - 3088 views - 10/28/11 by John Esposito in Articles

Does PHP need support for immutable objects?One time I tweeted:
Modern object-oriented programming languages need support for immutable Value Objects....
1 replies - 3297 views - 10/28/11 by Bradley Holt in Articles

Closures (lambdas) have been a very popular and useful language feature ever since they debuted in JavaScript. Now Java 8 is planning to include them and PHP...
1 replies - 4952 views - 10/27/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

cURL is a sleek way to grab contents from a URL. It’s helpful in PHP where servers have banned using the function file_get_contents() . A while back I had...
0 replies - 3610 views - 10/27/11 by Sachin Khosla in Articles

Check out the features in this PHP IDE via the free edition. Or see the list of major features listed here.A few days back , I got the opportunity to try the...
0 replies - 1916 views - 10/27/11 by Senthil Kumar in News

In the scenario of today, we see repeated checks for an object's equality to null, false or another scalar value without behavior. These checks take a form...
0 replies - 4288 views - 10/26/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles

Symfony2 is trying to make programmers to fall in love. And non-programmers especially love Drupal -- maybe because it's easy to use, and gives non-programmers...
0 replies - 3473 views - 10/25/11 by John Esposito in Articles

What is Symfony2? Fabien Potencier summarizes:First, Symfony2 is a reusable set of standalone, decoupled, and cohesive PHP components that solve common web...
0 replies - 2623 views - 10/25/11 by John Esposito in Articles

CPU and Disk-space are cheap these days. And the more cheaper they
become, cloud companies are coming with more exciting deals for you.
Some of them are...
0 replies - 4289 views - 10/25/11 by Hasin Hayder in Articles

The PHP community was reacting to Lukas Smith's "Interfacing the PHP world" for most of last weekend. Here was his introduction to the problem:I...
0 replies - 2676 views - 10/24/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Scripting languages are becoming more serious. Higher levels of
abstraction mean more little languages, better-adapted to specific
purposes. Dismissing...
1 replies - 5560 views - 10/24/11 by John Esposito in Articles

After learning the basics of PHP's basic file system functions, the
first thing you'll want to do is put it to use. One of the easiest and
flashiest things...
0 replies - 2722 views - 10/24/11 by Mike Bernat in News