Post tagged “Programming”

1. Defining INI Entries for PHP Scripts

   Mostly useful to passing PHP INI settings to wrapper scripts like phpcs and phpunit.

   • #Programming
   • #PHP
   • #PHPUnit
   • #PHP_CodeSniffer
   • #scripting

2. Rasmus on Interpolation vs. Concatenation

   Rasmus Lerdorf has been tweeting this morning about concatenation vs. interpolation in PHP. Micro-optimizations to be sure, but an interesting look under the hood.

   • #Programming
   • #PHP

3. PHP 5.4 Changes

   From the PHP 5.4.0 RC1 "NEWS" file. Traits, array dereferencing, CLI built-in web server, and more.

   • #Programming
   • #PHP

4. WordPress MU Domain Mapping Patches

   Get domain mapped URLs for any blog, and fix paths to the MUPLUGINDIR.

   • #Programming
   • #open source
   • #patches
   • #WordPress
   • #wordpress netwok

5. Filesystem Caching without Cruft in PHP

   Cleanup your file caches while you're still using them.

   • #Programming
   • #caching
   • #performance
   • #PHP

6. Google Chrome 13 "Pretty Print" Scripts

   Screenshots of Google Chrome 13's "pretty print" feature for scripts.

   • #Programming
   • #Web
   • #chrome
   • #debugging
   • #JavaScript

7. Python and PHP: Giving a Rat's Ass

   Should you give a rat's ass about being competitive with PHP?

   • #Programming
   • #PHP
   • #python

8. PHP, symlinks, and the realpath cache

   I've had issues in the past where symlinked web directories don't point to the correct file after the symlink target is changed.

   • #Programming
   • #performance
   • #PHP

9. Migrating to PHP 5.3: call_user_func_array()

   I've been updating various old pieces of code after our PHP 5.3 upgrade yesterday afternoon. Today, call_user_func_array() has been a recurring theme.

   • #Programming
   • #PHP
   • #php 5.3

10. On Frameworks

    Everyone wants what they don't have.

    • #Programming
    • #design
    • #object oriented programming
    • #PHP

11. Light Reading

    Picked up Clean Code and Design Patterns based on some programmers.se recommendations. Hopefully I'll be able to apply the concepts to PHP.

    • #Programming
    • #oop

12. prettyPrint for JavaScript

    I'm not a ColdFusion programmer, but I am a long-time fan of dBug for PHP. I just stumbled across James Padolsey's prettyPrint, which adds the same debugging feature to JavaScript.

    • #Programming
    • #debugging
    • #JavaScript

13. Testable Factories

    So I wrote a post about testable classes in PHP, and before I even hit "Publish" I read something on StackOverflow that challenged some of my opinions. I wrote that I didn't need testable factories, but what if I did?

    • #Programming
    • #PHP
    • #unit testing

14. Thinking About Testability

    I've been thinking a lot about unit tests, lately. In the Bad Old Days I could var_dump() my way through a problem and deal with the consequences, but that isn't good enough any more. Today, I want my tests to run themselves, and that's forcing me change the way I structure my code.

    • #Programming
    • #PHP
    • #unit testing

15. Cron Output in Google Reader

    I've created a Django app to log cron output, simultaneously reducing the amount of email I get and enabling me to make cron output more verbose.

    • #Linux
    • #Programming
    • #cron
    • #Django

16. PHP 5.3.0 Changes

    PHP 5.3.0 looks promising.

    • #Personal
    • #PHP
    • #Programming
    • #Web

17. Variable Variables and Arrays

    Memorize the order of operations, I guess.

    • #Web
    • #PHP
    • #Programming

18. Smarter Parsing with Smarty

    Don't gobble my markup.

    • #Web
    • #PHP
    • #Programming
    • #smarty

19. ADOdb, MySQL, and Transactions

    Transactions should be supported by everything.

    • #Personal
    • #ADOdb
    • #PHP
    • #Programming

20. Python Indentation and Vim

    Holy wars, to some.

    • #Computers
    • #Programming
    • #python
    • #Vim