Best practices, structuring of code, dissecting algorithms and talking about the “Why?”
This is part 5 of a 6 part series looking at the some of the wonderful features of PHP 5.5 and why it might remain a dominate web language for the future. This series was originally written for the Software Developer’s Journal. One of the main criticisms of PHP has always been "it is sloooowwww" or "slower than ______" (fill in the blank with some other trendy language). While sometimes this ...
This is part 4 of a 6 part series looking at the some of the wonderful features of PHP 5.5 and why it might remain a dominate web language for the future. This series was originally written for the Software Developer's Journal. In part 4 we are covering some of the new features related to foreach in the PHP 5.5 branch. While I myself have never really used these ideas much ...
This is part 3 of a 6 part series looking at the some of the wonderful features of PHP 5.5 and why it might remain a dominate web language for the future. This series was originally written for the Software Developer's Journal. In part 3 we are covering a couple of my favorite features introduced in the PHP 5.5 branch. The first one, constant array and string dereferencing, have been a ...
This is part 2 of a 6 part series looking at the some of the wonderful features of PHP 5.5 and why it might remain a dominate web language for the future. This series was originally written for the Software Developer's Journal. Continuing on with our 6 part series, the next two items that make PHP the language of the future is the finally keyword (which is used in conjunction with ...
This is part 1 of a 6 part series looking at the some of the wonderful features of PHP 5.5 and why it might remain a dominate web language for the future. This series was originally written for the Software Developer's Journal. Back in the early days of PHP the language was very different than it is today. While classes were available, PHP itself was very fragmented and felt more like ...
Recently, at the company I work for, I had to merge two very different web sites together. While both use C#, that is where they pretty much stopped in similarity. We were exploring ways to have them talk to one another very plainly and transmit only minimal amounts of data. One website was a store which was built around the idea of digital products and it had to talk ...
