Xajax and Vanilla
A couple weeks ago I read a few posts where the authors discussed what they had accomplished that day. I thought I would do something similar and talk about what is in my IDE each week. Using the term IDE very loosely (for those of you who are super literal).
PHP Weekly Reader - April 20th 2008
Judging by the number PHP of articles last week, spring is here. I can understand that since I find it extremely hard to focus on the computer screen when the weather is so beautiful, It almost hurt to write this article 
. I try to enjoy the spring while it lasts until the heat of summer arrives to drive me back inside, most summer days here will be over 100F well into the fall.
PHP Weekly Reader - April 13th 2008
Two posts last week reminded me of a daily question my dad would ask me at the end of the day. Travis Swicegood answers the question Whad did You do today? which inspired Ken Guest to do the same with What I've done recently. I always hated answering that question for some reason, I can tell you now that the correct answer to give my dad was not
PHP Weekly Reader - April 6th 2008
April fools came and went, I didn't get fooled. Thats sad, I love April fools day and this had to be the lamest year ever.
It was spring cleaning time this weekend so my computers were all unhooked and disassembled this weekend while everything was scrubbed clean. That spilled over into Monday which has now become Tuesday. That means everybody gets a break from my weekly reviews. Except this little tiny bit:
Subtle Digs
This caught my interest DHH on PHP. Maybe I'm just reading between the lines but "scales down" and "tackling that scope" isn't exactly praise. I really don't think that pointing to that blurb and saying “see, see.I told you PHP was good stuff.” is all that flattering to PHP. I wonder if anybody else thought it wasn't? Immediacy and frameworks points out some advantages that this immediacy gives. I think people are a little confused when they compare a language (PHP) with a framework ROR)
Shorted
I know this post got the short end of spring cleaning weekend. I promise next week will be uhhh… Better!
Lobbying for PHP — emPHPower me.
Lukas Smith recently posted an article talking about the need for an organization within the PHP community saying:
There are is fundamental concept that I see in this vision:
emPHPower is a mediator and catalyst that empowers members of the community to follow their own ideas
PHP Weekly Reader - March 30th 2008
I have been doing some research on build tools this last week, and was hoping some new articles would crop up that were related so I could accomplish two things at once, write my weekly review and learn about new tools, unfortunately that didn't happen.
PHP Weekly Reader - March 23th 2008
I'm a little late with the Weekly Reader, I spent some time with my family on Sunday and a hectic day at work on Monday. Luckily there wasn't much going on in my reader this last week that just had to be here, so this will be short otherwise it won't make it out before next weeks review.
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PHP Weekly Reader - March 16th 2008
I spend way too much time reading blogs, surfing PHP and web development articles online. I resolve to cut back but things just sneak back into my reader somehow, and believe me dzone doesn't help. But I've came up with a way to justify all that time, I call it research.
I thought I'd share a bit of this research so every Sunday night you will find a bit of commentary and a lot of links to things I found interesting in the PHP world over the previous week. Personally I like articles with code so you might see a lot of how-to links, and I don't much care who is going to what unconference, conference, camp or meet-up so I won't be tracking anyones itinerary. If you think I missed something let me know, really I hate missing out on new articles.
Thats where the containers are.
My post awhile back asking about container libraries drew a "you don't need them so why are you looking?" response. Well at least I know where they are now according to this announcement of new data structures in SPL.
I wish the documentation for the SPL was better, but I look forward to playing around with the new stuff anyways. In fact the documentation still has nothing.
Not sure I needed a whole post for this but I was glad to have the question answered for me.
PHP - No Container libraries?
Most compiled languages that I have used have some kind of container implementation, Lists, Maps, Trees, Stacks and all their many variations. PHP has arrays and the SPL.
This post is more of a question than anything else, are there disadvantages that I can't see to having a standard container library for PHP? One problem that I can see is that containers built in user code will definitely be slower than a native implementation.
Am I overlooking something that already exists? Google fails me!