Ramblings of a php coder
Zack White has created an non profit open source community project called OpenClip. When a participating developer adds the OpenClip framework to an iPhone app, that app gains copy & paste functionality. The OpenClip framework uses a shared space on the iPhone and iPodTouch, therefore not violation Apple SDK agreement.
This is great news as apple has been very lazy about this feature. Checkout GeekBrief Showing off OpenClip in their latest episode.
read moreThanks to Federico over at PHP::Impact ( [str Blog] ) for posting this. I’m going to test it out and see how well it really works.
Quercus allows developers to incorporate Java code into PHP web applications and gives both Java and PHP developers a fast, safe, and powerful alternative to the standard PHP interpreter.
Quercus natively supports Unicode and the new Unicode syntax of the up-and-coming PHP 6, and implements a growing list of PHP extensions (i.e. APC, iconv, GD, gettext, JSON, MySQL, Oracle, PDF, Postgres, etc.). Many popular PHP applications will run as well as, if not better, than the standard PHP interpreter straight out of the box.
Quercus PHP libraries are written entirely in Java, thereby taking the advantages of Java applications and infusing them into PHP.
Although PHP users and Java users can take advantage of Quercus immediately without modifying their application, the real benefits come from developing mixed Java/PHP applications:
I’m going to setup a test box and test this out to see how it compares to the standard LAMP stack. Check back for more information.
Nick Stakenburg is beating the drum of getting users to upgrade their browsers, and has created PushUpTheWeb.com.
Pushup is an effort to push the web forward by helping users update their outdated browsers. Give your users a better web experience today by installing Pushup on your domain!
By putting the script up, users will have their browser checked out, and if there is a new version it will let them know in the right hand top corner.
You can configure it to use reminders, and style it how you wish. Friends don’t let friends run old browsers!
read moreI’m writing this blog post using the new WordPress app in the iPhone. This just mrks me think the iPhone is one of the most useful gadgets I own. Now let’s just hope for some cut and paste action soon.
read moreOver at Phly, boy, phly, Zend Framework coder Matthew Weier O’Phinney, talks about issues with implementation of namespacing in PHP 5.3 and the coding standards of Zend Framework.
The issue is, that the PHP parser does not allow class Abstract, neither interface Interface as both “abstract” and “interface” are reserved keywords. So Zend suggests prefixing interfaces with “I” and abstract classes with “A”. Hungarian notation for classes and interfaces.
It’s definitely a good read if you are looking into using namespacing in PHP 5.3 and what issues it may bring up with you code. Read it now »
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My name is Jon and I'm a PHP Certified programmer, who likes to contribute back to the PHP community and to the Zend Framework Community. I am the maintainer of the Twitter, Amazon Ec2, Amazon S3 and Amazon SQS Components in Zend Framework and I'm currently working on bring more of Amazon Web Services to the framework.