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Drupal 6.0 Released - SitePoint Blogs » PHP
The Drupal development team surprised everyone when they released version 6.0 last week, ahead of schedule.
After one year of development we are ready to release Drupal 6.0 to the world. Thanks to the tireless work of the Drupal community, over 1,600 issues have been resolved during the Drupal 6.0 release cycle. These changes are evident […]
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A PHP Guy’s Look At Python - SitePoint Blogs » PHP
Against all odds, I found myself with a little spare time this week. Rather than do something sensible like clean the garage or get some exercise, I took the opportunity to learn a new programming language: Python.
Like may SitePoint readers, I cut my teeth on PHP. I’ve become very comfortable with it over the years, […]
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Tokenization using regular expression sub patterns - SitePoint Blogs » PHP
A while back was writing some stuff on this blog about regular expressoins. While that remains unfinished, a mini regex example - nothing earth shattering but a useful technique if you hadn’t already seen it.
Promtped by a real world example, one often-overlooked feature of most regular expressions engines is how subpatterns can useful to whip […]
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“What PHP Deployment Gets Right” - Ian Bicking nails it at last - SitePoint Blogs » PHP
This should be required reading for anyone working on the server-side - What PHP Deployment Gets Right; this really is the final word on the subject - it really needs adding to the PHP manual, as there’s a significant gap when it comes to describing how PHP actually works, and why it’s designed to help […]
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PHP Manual CLI style 2.0 - SitePoint Blogs » PHP
Harry mentioned the handy little phpm some three years ago. And Sean Coates was kind enough to point out how it could be replaced with a shell one-liner. Doesn’t that just make one love bash?
One thing, I missed with either of the two, was the ability to see the entire manual entry. It’s quite […]
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Rakish resolution - more flame - SitePoint Blogs » PHP
Happy 2008! At the risk of being a cad (or just plain annoying and silly)…
Zed Shaw, (ex-?)author of Mongrel, makes this remark in his end of year epiphany Rails is a Ghetto;
(15:11:12) DHH: before fastthread we had ~400 restarts/day
(15:11:22) DHH: now we have perhaps 10
(15:11:29) Zed S.: oh nice
(15:11:33) Zed S.: and that’s still fastcgi […]
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Index of PHP tokens for Emacs and beyond - SitePoint Blogs » PHP
I’ve been using Emacs as my primary editor for a while now. A lot of people prefer IDE’s, but I’ve never been comfortable with them. I kind of like the ability to show a list of classes & functions in a file though. Emacs can use ctags to generate a list of tokens for a […]
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Lexical scope to appear in PHP? - SitePoint Blogs » PHP
I mentioned briefly, in my last post, that Wez Furlong made a patch back in March, that allows a native syntax for creating anonymous functions. This could replace the heinous create_function.
Since then, I brought up Wez’ original patch again on the php-internals lists. This has prompted some hefty debate over the last week. The main […]
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The state of functional programming in PHP - SitePoint Blogs » PHP
With the rise of Javascript, and languages like Python and Ruby, functional programming is becoming more mainstream. Even Java seems to be getting closures in the next version, so does this leave PHP lacking behind or is there an unrealised potential hidden within?
Dynamic dispatch
What exactly defines a functional programming language, is perhaps an open question, […]
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Bigger Traffic Volume with Blogs
Bigger Traffic Volume with BlogsWriting by Nick Stamoulis on Saturday, 22 of December , 2007 at 12:24 pm
Blogs are a great way to build up traffic for your website. They are relatively easy to set up and manage. There are a few options for free hosting that are not bad, but from a […]
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