Volker Dusch's Blog: Book Review: PHP Masters
Volker Dusch has posted his review of a recent release from SitePoint Press - "PHP Masters - Write Cutting Edge Code". The book is solid, well written and covers the most important topics that people need to think about when starting off with PHP. It is one of the few PHP book on the market that you can pass on to your trainees/junior developers without having to "unteach" them half of the taught bad practices afterwards. This is a great achievement in my mind and I'd definitely recommend checking…
2011-12-09 01:48:29
VG Tech Blog: Unit Testing with Streams in PHP
On the VG Tech blog today there's a new post from André Roaldseth about using PHPUnit to test PHP streams, basing the assertions on the data rather than the functionality itself. Using the memory/temporary stream provided by php:// stream wrapper you can create a stream with read and write access directly to RAM or to a temporary file [using "php://memory"]. This gives you the possibilty to write unit tests that does not rely on a specific file, resource or stream, but rather on data provided…
2011-12-09 02:13:28
Symfony 2.0.7 released
Symfony 2.0.7 has just been released. The CHANGELOG has all the details about the changes done in this release and you can also have a look at the full diff. If you are starting a new project, you can get the Symfony Standard Edition distribution on the download page. If you already have a project based on the Symfony Standard Edition 2.0.x, you can easily upgrade to 2.0.7 by getting the new deps and deps.lock files. Then, run the vendors script: $ ./bin/vendors install And don't forget to clear…
2011-12-09 01:32:35
Ilia Alshanetsky's Blog: PHP's Output Buffering
In a new post to his blog Ilia Alshanetsky takes a look at PHP's output buffering feature and some interesting things he found when testing some recent code (hint: it has to do with PHP's "interesting" management of the buffer). While profiling our application I came across a a rather strange memory usage by the ob_start() function. We do use ob_start() quite a bit to defer output of data, which is a common thing in many applications. What was unusual is that 16 calls to ob_start() up chewing through…
2011-12-09 03:01:15
Facebook Tech Talk: MySQL at Scale
In case you haven’t seen it, the Facebook team held a Tech Talk on Monday focusing on MySQL and HBase at Scale. You can view the recording here. Facebook relies on MySQL for it users database, handling users interactions such as likes, shares, status updates, events, notifications…etc, and is running massive operations, especially considering (as Domas Mituzas from the database performance team mentioned) the time and scope of “social” data. Domas shared some pretty impressive numbers including:…
2011-12-09 03:47:45 by Oracle MySQL Group
PHPMaster.com: Untangling MVC with CodeIgniter
On PHPMaster.com today there's a new tutorial that wants to help you "untangle MVC" with the help of the CodeIgniter framework. The tutorial is an introduction to the Model/View/Controller design pattern and how it's implemented in this popular framework. If you want to develop applications with sell-structured, readable code that you can quickly diagnose problems in, then MVC is for you. In this article I'll untangle the mysteries of MVC for you using CodeIgniter, a PHP framework based on the MVC…
2011-12-09 04:22:32
Wokay.com: 12+ Tutorials for creating PHP5 MVC Framework
If you've ever wanted to start from scratch and wanted to build your own PHP framework, you might want to take a look at this list. It's a set of thirteen good resources to help you get started and introduce you to some of the basic framework concepts. Frameworks serve as basics for developing a theory, condition and design in broader sense but in the world of web site development, framework means applications that help you in creating something new or something most popular around the web. We have…
2011-12-09 05:59:43
Log Buffer #249, A Carnival of the Vanities for DBAs
Why did you start blogging? If you haven’t why aren’t you blogging? In either case, the answer can be as short or long as you wish, but if you are reading this, this means that you are interested in blogging no matter whether you are blogging or not. Log Buffer is there to not only [...]
2011-12-09 17:00:13 by The Pythian Group‹ First < 77 78 79 80 81 > Last ›
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