Chad Kieffer's Blog: Speed up PHP development in Eclipse PDT with Templates and Snippets (3)
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Recently Chad Kieffer made a post to his blog about a handy little feature of the Eclipse IDE that can help you speed up your development - snippets and templatings. You already know that Eclipse PDT provides autocompletion and hints for PHP's built in functions. In addition, commenting your code with PHPDoc adds autocompletion and hinting for your application's classes, methods, and variables. If you haven't already discovered, Eclipse PDT also provides autocompletion of PHP's ...
ESME Team Meetups - Accidentally on Purpose (2)
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News Item added by Marilyn Pratt My last wiki entry talked about accidents. This entry is about some happier accidents of the meet-up kind. I often feel a bit like Woody Allen's Zelig with the uncanny ability to insert oneself into some exceedingly interesting (historic) social environments as a famous nobody. It's like having a passport to be an official "fly on the wall" of some fascinating conversations. You get to be present, observe and ...
PHPUnit 3.3.0 RC1 (1)
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I have rolled a release candidate of PHPUnit 3.3. Highlights of this release include:Improvements and Fixes for PHPUnit_Framework_AssertassertStringEqualsFile(), assertStringNotEqualsFile(), assertXmlStringEqualsXmlFile(), assertXmlStringNotEqualsXmlFile(), assertXmlFileTag(), assertXmlFileNotTag(), assertXmlStringTag(), assertXmlStringNotTag(), assertXmlFileSelect(), and assertXmlStringSelect(), assertEquals(), assertNotEquals(), assertFileEquals(), and assertFileNotEquals(), and assertEqualXMLStructure() are new assertion methods that help making test code more concise and expressive.Improvements and Fixes for PHPUnit_Framework_TestCaseThis includes improvements and fixes for the Mock Objects System, Data Providers, and a rewrite of the code that is responsible for the backup ...
Comet in conjunction with a PHP socket server - Yet another way of server-client communication - ThinkPHP /dev/blog (2)
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Over the past years websites have changed to web-applications. This development goes along with a lot of new technologies. These are, for instance, Ajax and with it the formats to transfer data like the JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). Continue reading "Comet in conjunction with a PHP socket server - Yet another way of server-client communication"
Labor Day Benchmarks (3)
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By popular request, here is an update of my web framework benchmarks report. You can see previous result sets here: How Fast Is Your Framework? New Year’s Benchmarks Framework and Application Benchmarking slides at DCPHP 2007 Before you comment on this post, please have the courtesy to read at least the first two articles above; I am tired [...]
Wrapup of FrOSCon 2008 (1)
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I had the privilege of speaking at this years FrOSCon (23rd - 24th August) and this being the first time I speak there and indeed the first time I venture into Germany, I was very excited about the whole thing. Since this was also my first time at a non commercial conference (yes I've never been to fosdem and friends, very sad indeed ) I wasn't really sure what to expect - especially if everything ...
Seth's Blog: Reaching the right people (68)
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Here's a great idea. What if your new rock group appeals to fans of the B52s? Or if your new book is just perfect for people who like Brad Meltzer? If you have a CD or a book or an idea that will appeal to a certain psychographic, it might not be so easy to reach just those people. Dave came up with a super idea: go buy a bunch of B52s CDs. Then list ...
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chrisbrogan.com said:
This is actually pretty clever.
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Lorraine said:
One more way to make Fee Sell!
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matthew hunt said:
great tip!
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Richard said:
Interesting
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Carl Fyffe said:
It amazes me how many kickass ideas this guy comes up with. Extra amazing is that most are actionable.
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Mark Dykeman said:
as the saying goes: this is so crazy that it just might work.
WordPress - 10 Tips and Recommendations (2)
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Since my recent move to WordPress I’ve been crawling the web looking for useful WordPress tips and ticks. Below are my essentials for anyone using WordPress: Security Protect Your Login Page from Bots The LoginBlock will prevent bots from continuously trying different combinations to crack your account. This is very similar to how Windows works if you’re in a domain environment. Every failed login attempt is recorded, along with the timestamp of the attempt and ...
Can a timestamp be slower than a datetime? (1)
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One should use timestamps rather than datetimes as timestamps are four bytes and datetimes are eight bytes, right? This makes sense as smaller indexes and tables are faster than larger ones. However, when I was trying to quantify the improvement (I’m strange that way), I found the exact opposite - when used as a criteria, a timestamp is slower than a datetime. Often much slower. For example, for this simple sql, when purchaseDate was a ...
PHP frameworks? Think again. (1)
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This is the fist time I have heard Rasmus Lerdorf speak and it was entertaining to say the least. Refreshing would another way to describe it, I enjoy hearing real opinions and not holding back — Rasmus doesn’t hold back.Just a short background, Rasmus Lerdorf is the creator of PHP and still continues as a core developer to the PHP project.
Extension of the Week: Gravatar (1)
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The extension I’m focusing on this week is Gravatar. A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog (or wiki) appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites. This is beneficial in MindTouch Deki as it helps with the community aspect of Deki by including personalized images of the users which can be put on the User Page as an example. Before ...
Code Metrics in Minutes (1)
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One of the primary goals of every developer should be to prevent or drastically limit the number of bugs or defects from being introduced in their source code. It is also our responsibility to write good, extensible, testable, and maintainable code. This however seems like a herculean task to many.
Is COBOL really understandable after 14 years? (1)
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COBOL has been in the news quite a lot recently and I have been reading that there are still huge amounts of COBOL code running and being written. This led me to wonder why this language was still being used. I therefore decided to look at a few sites about COBOL and see what they said was good about the language. The main benefits appeared to be that it is portable and self-documenting. Indeed‚ I ...
PHP Rest Server (part 1 of 3) (2)
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I recently had reason to write a REST server in PHP, which was very interesting. There aren't a whole lot of resources on this topic around so I thought I'd write an outline of what I did. There is quite a lot to it so I'm publishing in multiple sections - this is part 1, which covers the central functionality and handling the incoming request.Wrapping an Existing Class The main functionality of the service was ...
Embrace Change (8)
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David Anderson on Infoq, Future Directions for Agile. I think maybe this is the best material I've come across on Agile since v2 of Extreme Programming. It floored me. I didn't like this presentation to start with, but it sucked me in. Give it 10 minutes (I know, that's *forever*). Agile these days is like food and drink, but not everyone today will know the conditions Agile grew out of and what needed to be ...
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Boris Mann said:
something to dive into to internalize agile
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aok said:
Three years after I got tired of the bible-thumping, someone lays a plan for not letting the whole thing devolve like every other fad in this industry.
Federal court blocks beef exporter from testing for mad cow disease (42)
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The USDA tests 1% of cattle of mad cow disease. Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef exporters wants to test 100% of its cattle for mad cow disease. But the Bush administration took Creekstone to court, and a US federal appeals court ruled that the USDA has the authority to stop meatpackers from testing more than 1% of its cattle. The dispute pits the Agriculture Department, which tests about 1 percent of cows for the potentially ...
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Antoine said:
This is absurd! I fully agree with Mark's comment. As a side note it is interesting to see how the 'free market' policy is no longer applied when the big guys in the market complain.
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jchris said:
I shared a Boing-Boing ;)
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Jordan T-H said:
I think this is a prime example of the mindset of the society we now live in.
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Anthony said:
Government is the haunting fear, that someone, somewhere is solving problems with markets.......
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px said:
what's wrong with 100% testing? let the market play it out.
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Veritas Noctis said:
I feel safer now. Don't you?
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Haltse said:
free country , free trade.. Pull the other one it's got a sick cow bell on it.
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Macky said:
The USDA tests 1% of cattle of mad cow disease. Kansas-based Creekstone Farms Premium Beef exporters wants to test 100% of its cattle for mad cow disease. But the Bush administration took Creekstone to court, and a US federal appeals court ruled that the USDA has the authority to stop meatpackers from testing more than 1% of its cattle.
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Chrigu said:
Gut ist diese Administration bald am Ende...
Tip: What every programmer should know about memory (1)
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Some time ago a friend of mine tipped me about this article series called “What every programmer should know about memory” written by Ulrich Drepper (lead contributor and maintainer of glib). I just recently came around to start reading it. This is a 100 page long text which covers computer memory in detail, with focus on how software interacts with memory. From RAM to CPU caches the text moves on to tips on how we ...
