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Big step forward in Modular Database Applications with DataObjects
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I've been using the Roo Javascript library as the UI component, the Pman Components ontop of the very lightweight HTML_FlexyFramework. The result is a very… read more
Collecting Garbage: PHP's take on variables
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In this three part column I will explain the merits of the new Garbage Collection (also known as GC) mechanism that is part of PHP… read more
Razors and Development
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I view the trade-off here as the same one you have to look at when deciding what framework you choose to develop your code in.… read more
Is Your PHP Application Affected by the Y2K38 Bug?
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Y2K38, or the Unix Millennium Bug, affects PHP and many other languages and systems which use a signed 32-bit integer to represent dates as the… read more
Using filter_var as safer alternative to get and post variables
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SQL injections through GET and POST variables have been a problem for some time, but a possible solution is available in PHP self since version… read more
HashTables
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In case you ever heard me talking about PHP internals I certainly mentioned something along the lines of "Everything in PHP is a HashTable" that's… read more
PHANTM Continued
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Seven months ago, I mentioned PHANTM, a tool that statically analyzes PHP code in order to detect and report type mismatch. I've actively continued working… read more
Custom events in JavaScript
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Without a doubt, the most often-used paradigm in JavaScript is events. Events are a manifestation of the observer pattern, a well-defined computer science design pattern… read more
The Registry Pattern Reexamined
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I wrote about the registry pattern and some of its advantages. These advantages include the ability to access objects across different areas of your application,… read more
Microbenchmarking PHP: performant code, now with 20% less superstitious handwaving
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Last week, Matt Farina tossed me a question about the best approach to introspecting code in PHP, particularly in relation to whether or not the… read more
References and foreach
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References in PHP are bad, as I mentioned before, and you certainly should avoid using them. Now there is one use case which leads to… read more
A Smaller Database is a Faster Database. How Column Size Impacts Performance
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Intelligent design of a database is the single best way to keep it fast. This article looks at how column type impacts overall performance and… read more
Salting Passwords in DB or Across the Wire?
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One of the sessions at SxSW talked about the importance of salting passwords in the database in case an attacker gains database access. The assertion… read more
Autoloading Benchmarks
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During the past week, I've been looking at different strategies for autoloading in Zend Framework. I've suspected for some time that our class loading strategy… read more
PTC Windchill on SQL Server
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Knowing which queries are performing slowly gives you inside knowledge that you can use to optimize SQL Server. Every query that is executed against SQL… read more
Understanding Windows Azure AppFabric Access Control via PHP
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In a post I wrote a couple of weeks ago, Consuming SQL Azure Data with the OData SDK for PHP, I didn’t address how to… read more
The value of HTML validation
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This post has been percolating in my mind for some time, and reading Chris Heilmann’s post about Remy Sharp’s site. Chris and I have had… read more
Technical Debt
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Technical debt is something that most project teams or independent developers have to deal with – we take shortcuts to push out releases, we don’t… read more
Refactoring explained to an absolute beginner
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Recently while on a drive with a non-programmer friend, I talked with him about code complexity and manageability, how very complicated code is detrimental to… read more
Introduction to the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript – Composing Callbacks
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So far in this series, we’ve covered some basic information about the Reactive Extensions for JavaScript (RxJS) including creating observables and creating observers as well… read more
