Comments on: PHP Weekly Reader – March 30th 2008

By: Doug Hill

Doug Hill — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 02:19:14 +0000

@Julian,

Phing and rake coverage would be awesome! I agree with you about build and deployment not being given enough attention, especially on smaller projects. I am a fanatic about trying to automate the entire build and deployment process right from the first line of code though, so I will study anything that gives me insight into making it easier even if its not directly related to the language at hand.

Keep up the good work.
Doug

By: Julian Simpson

Julian Simpson — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 16:17:11 +0000

Hi Doug,

Thanks for mentioning Build Doctor. Most of what I do in my day job is Ant and Nant style work, but I don't want to limit Build Doctor to just those. Build and deployment (especially deployment) is often overlooked in software and web projects; Build Doctor is about spreading the message that they are an integral part of development, not an afterthought. I should probably cover Phing and Rake ….

Best

Julian

By: Loic Hoguin

Loic Hoguin — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 11:04:18 +0000

Annoying site(s) of the week

Dear sir, I can only agree with this part of your post. Greetings.

By: Jonathan Street

Jonathan Street — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:37:18 +0000

A tutorial site with sound advice? That would never work! You need a bit of a feel good factor. The easiest way is to miss out all the hard stuff. $sql = "SELECT * FROM table where id = $_POST['form']" works perfectly well in any article looking at database access. Why make it more complex? When you were talking about alternatives to GSoC the first thing which came to my mind was "emPHPower". I've no idea where that's going to go but it does look interesting.

By: Lukas

Lukas — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:16:53 +0000

Hehe .. its only a "code name" for now. I did reg the domain for the hell of it. Anyways, looking forward to your blog post.

By: Doug Hill

Doug Hill — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:29:23 +0000

The "emPHPower" idea is is awesome! It was an accident that it got left out BUT thats only because I am saving it for its very own post. I have been kicking around some ideas in my head every since I read it.

I hate the name by the way.

By: Lukas

Lukas — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 08:15:26 +0000

Guess you kicked me of your feedreader then, or maybe my blog posts werent exciting

Here are the links .. believing it was all an "accident"

emPHPower (brain storming on a PHP advocacy organization):
http://pooteeweet.org/blog/1025

Rasmus on big libs and APC (on the example of Doctrine):
http://pooteeweet.org/blog/1038