This Week’s Link List (December 24, 2010)
Things are definitely not slowing down in December. This week, everything from news about a stable Doctrine 2 release (and how to use its DBAL to create DB schemas) to blog posts about bugs/features in PHP 5.3 (and a couple of just-for-fun links thrown in for good measure). Enjoy reading…
- Matthias Willerich examines what appears to be a bug in parent:: (in PHP 5.3): https://www.contentwithstyle.co.uk/content/behaviour-of-parent-in-php-533
- I didn't know it was so easy to install Xdebug: https://xdebug.org/find-binary.php
- Ilia Alshanetsky publishes the domain resolution data that is part of an ongoing project of aggregating PHP usage data: https://ilia.ws/archives/234-Domain-Location-Statistics.html
- Rob Allen shows how to handle errors in a Zend Framework Front Controller plugin: https://akrabat.com/zend-framework/handling-exceptions-in-a-front-controller-plugin/
- A wish list for PHP developers...what features would you like to see added to PHP? https://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/27564/what-features-would-you-like-to-have-in-php/27898
- Doctrine 2 has its first stable release: https://www.doctrine-project.org/blog/doctrine2-released
- A 1-minute video of JumpIn! Camp highlights: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FS3FuR6sE6Q
- Octavia Andreea Anghel provides an overview of new PHP 5 features for constructors and destructors: https://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/PHP5-constructors-destructors/Octavia_Anghel122110.php3
- If you don't have time to watch this 50-minute recording of Lorenzo Alberton talking about improving PHP application performance, then check out the slides from his presentation: https://www.slideshare.net/quipo/profile-your-php-application-and-make-it-fly https://css.dzone.com/books/practical-php-testing/practical-php-testing-patterns-15
- Some notes about using PHP_CodeSniffer to upgrade applications to a newer version of PHP: https://techblog.wimgodden.be/2010/06/24/automated-php-5-3-compatibility-testing-for-your-old-code/
- As a math geek, I found this article interesting (but I wonder about it's utility): https://blogs.sitepoint.com/2010/12/21/counting-with-an-arbitrary-character-set/
- Yet another comparison of SQL and NoSQL: https://highscalability.com/blog/2010/12/21/sql-nosql-yes.html
- How to create DB schemas with Doctrine 2 (for which a stable release is available): https://www.codediesel.com/mysql/creating-sql-schemas-with-doctrine-dbal/
Have a great weekend.
-Brian