Kategorie: Tim’s Weblog

Harry Fuecks at SitePoint – MVC and web apps: oil and water: „CRUD is defined in the context of databases where what you’re dealing with is sets of information—you need to make a distinction between inserting into the set and updating an existing member of the set. Meanwhile HTTP was designed for access to resources,…

Barry McKay at OTN – Persisting PHP5 Objects in Oracle: „Storing objects in your database is not just a gimmick; rather, it is the final piece in the „developing entirely within the object-oriented paradigm“ puzzle. It allows you to analyze, design, develop, and test using all the techniques that are so popular in traditional, large-scale,…

Chris Shiflett’s Power PHP Testing lists the various you can write automated tests for PHP software.

Harry Fuecks – [The sysadmin view on “Why PHP”](http://www.sitepoint.com/blogs/2006/01/10/the-sysadmin-view-on-why-php/ „SitePoint Blogs – The sysadmin view on „Why PHP““): „When was the last time you saw a PHP runtime error take down an entire application or web server? […] With PHP it’s very hard for a script to take down the runtime environment—the web server—I’d argue…

PHP-OpenDocument Library: „I wrote a small PHP library for manipulating OpenDocument files and have released it under Apache 2.0 License. Its current features are: * Create plain-text Text (.odt) documents. * Create simple Spreadsheet (.ods) document.“

„Mdoc is a new auto-documentation tool to create manuals like PHP manual at php.net web site, so in a style common to the PHP community and is very efficient to share your code as APIs.“

Steven Douglas Olson – Document or Perish: „Writing is the technology that brought humans to the next level in advanced technology. Civilizations that prevailed in the past were literate. They could send messages, design things and communicate their ideas through their writings. For every Leonardo da Vinci there are innumerable inventors who carried their ideas…

Karl Vogel at ONLamp.com – Organizing Files: „The problem: the filesystem on my Unix workstation was a mess. I couldn’t find anything without grepping all over creation. About half the time, I’d actually find something useful. Usually I’d get no hits at all, or I’d match something like a compiled binary and end up hosing…

Sean Hull – Oracle Open Source Projects – The Interviews: „This story is really about tinkerers, folks that like to play with technologies, and offer up their creations to everyone. Some end up with serious projects on their hands, and a large following. When Oracle ported to Linux, it was a moment for the tinkerers…

John Lim – Is Ruby brainwashing us?: „Well, my personal preference in terms of language is a simple clean C-like syntax. I want something that I can teach programmers in 2 days. I don’t want an unfamiliar syntax that requires relearning a lot. I don’t want programmers to agonize for hours on the right way…