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2006/11/7

the neverending story - PHP flame wars

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@ 09:00 AM (18 months, 9 days ago)
Since PHP 5.2.0 just came out, and sooo much time passed since the last language flame wars, the zealot guns are all loaded again:
There tends to be too much emotion involved now to make much sense of the arguments. Wondering why people prefer to blame the tools and not their poor understanding.

2006/3/23

PEAR affectedRows() problem

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@ 07:55 AM (25 months, 28 days ago)
In case you also use PEAR::DB and share my taste in writing explicit multiple line queries like this:

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2006/3/6

zend framework

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@ 12:02 PM (26 months, 15 days ago)
http://framework.zend.com/images/logo.gif The new PHP Zend Framework is out (v0.1.1). There's really lot of classes inside to digest; many to-be-standardized algorhitms inside; all in all an interesting read. However, unless all these PHP classes get precompiled into PHP, it's hard to see a reason to include 881kb (~/library/*) of on-the-fly compiled PHP code into every php app. The feed parser, pdf generator and search demos look great though. The ActiveRecord implementation; the Zend_db_DataObject sounds very promising; I'll have a more indepth look over the next weeks.

2006/3/3

around php usage worldwide

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@ 08:04 AM (26 months, 18 days ago)
http://static.php.net/www.php.net/images/stats/phpstats-200602.pngThis isn't about debating the $subject, but simple rhetoric. As a search engines relevance check, Google's answer is in lala-land; same is Yahoo's. Both engines seem to be fooled by the presence of "php" in search result URLs. The only search engine that appears to get it is MSN.

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2006/3/1

php rants, anti-rants and beyond

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@ 11:47 AM (26 months, 20 days ago)
In case you missed the hype, there have been some rants on php lately; ignited by Tim Bray, continued by many others (Paul Goscicki++). In the background of these attacks seem to be the recent fast ascension of Ruby on Rails technology, which some say is not that bad (here's a hot job post with autoscout24.de; german leader in online car classifieds).

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2005/4/27

"PHPUnit Pocket Guide" new book for Sebastian Bergmann

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@ 08:03 PM (36 months, 28 days ago)

There's a new PHP book in preparation by Sebastian Bergmann, that should be ready by may this year.

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2005/3/12

small db benchmark: perl, php cli and php cgi

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@ 08:35 AM (38 months, 14 days ago)

I recently run some command line scripts, and I had the option to choose between PHP-CLI and Perl. The Command Line PHP version proved to be a powerful alternative to Perl. Php is version 4.3.10, the cli version, and Perl with version 5.8.3, both running on a powerful FreeBSD machine. The scripts I used are here:

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