Note: I’ve written on this topic before,
but thought the subject warranted further more detailed discussion and a
more comprehensive and up-to-date...
1 replies - 4444 views - 10/02/11 by Matthew Turland in News
A lot of the gripes about PHP as a language come down to the fact
that there are a million ways to accomplish the same task, but only a
couple are truely...
0 replies - 3225 views - 10/01/11 by Mike Bernat in News
The setting:
An SOAP request contains an Id attribute – and an element with the
exact name in the response (directly beneath the element containing the...
0 replies - 3512 views - 09/30/11 by Mats Lindh in News
This article is the third and last part of the refactoring from type codes miniseries.First, we saw a case where no behavior was modified by the type code...
0 replies - 4783 views - 09/28/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
PHP makes file system manipulation easy with its variety of
built-in functions. One thing I always knew, but never got the chance to
try, is that many of...
0 replies - 3595 views - 09/27/11 by Mike Bernat in News
This is the second part in the refactoring from type codes miniseries: type codes are scalar fields that can assume a finite number of values. The assumption...
0 replies - 4580 views - 09/26/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
I had a funny (funny weird, not funny haha) problem the other day when working with pecl_oauth
in PHP to talk to a service. I'd gone through all the...
1 replies - 2441 views - 09/23/11 by Lorna Mitchell in News
Phar is a php extensions that provides the means for distributing code as a single archive, that does not have to be extracted to a folder before usage.The...
2 replies - 7136 views - 09/22/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
WebMatrix has made a name for itself by massively simplifying and accelerating the construction of a relatively complex web site—specifically the CMS,...
0 replies - 7924 views - 09/21/11 by Mitch Pronschinske in News
The scenario of today will be familiar to many developers which have experience with ENUM database fields: it consists in a numerical or fixed string type code...
0 replies - 4563 views - 09/21/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
Shortcodes are real time-savers for all WordPress users. They
allow you to do complex tasks easily, just by inserting the shortcode
in your post editor....
1 replies - 4968 views - 09/20/11 by jb j in News
Google+ recently releases to developers the first version of its Api, which focuses on public data about profiles and their activities: status updates,...
0 replies - 5894 views - 09/20/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
We often find ourselves tempted by the shortcut of using directly a record-like data structure provided by the language or a framework. There are many example...
1 replies - 4489 views - 09/19/11 by Giorgio Sironi in Articles
I recently finished reading Drupal 7 First Look – written by Mark Noble of Drupal by Example, and published by Packt Publishing.
I have to admit what while...
0 replies - 2365 views - 09/17/11 by Nathan Smith in News
I help people qualify for Zend Certification and in the last few months I've had questions about both ArrayAccess and ArrayObject. This post is an attempt to...
1 replies - 3141 views - 09/16/11 by Lorna Mitchell in News
