Paul M. Jones

Jeff Moore talks about dependency injection in PHP and opines as to how he’d like to see “the current crop of frameworks” adopt the technique. Jeff, your wish is granted! (At least for Solar. ;-) Read on for more.

Exactly one month after the last release, I uploaded Solar 0.20.0. There are lots of changes in this release, but the biggest news is that the page-controller now uses method-based actions (as opposed to file-based actions).

Looking at the php|works schedule it appears my proposal for “Organizing your PHP Project” has been accepted for day 1 at 16:00. Woohoo! :-)

Read and heed the latest from Clay Loveless: Stop Writing Loner Applications.
After nearly a decade in web application development, I continue to be dumbfounded by how many applications are built and released by the open-source community that apparently believe that they’ll be the only complex, user-database application I’ll will want to run.
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Two quick hits: first, by popular request, I’ve started a web-forum for Savant at http://phpsavant.com/forum; it uses Vanilla. Second, because of a recent spate of spam attacks on my blog comments (1000 or more per day), I’ve activated Akismet; in 24 hours it has captured 3900 spam comments and trackbacks. Makes life [...]