Archive for November, 2007

What Does This Say About Unit-Testing in PHP Land?

Friday, November 30th, 2007 (10:49)

Without having done actual research, and depending on my personal experience alone, I would assert that in PHP userland …

There are maybe 20 or more general-purpose CMSes.
There are perhaps 50 or more public frameworks (of varying quality and approach).
There are easily 100 or more templating libraries (even if most of them can be grouped under [...]

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Dump TV, Get Rich

Thursday, November 29th, 2007 (10:33)

Those of you who know me well, know that I am not much of a TV watcher. What little I do watch is boring to most normal people; by way of example, note that my 10-year-old 25″ RCA tube has the C-SPAN logo burned into the bottom right corner.
So for me, this article feels [...]

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Solar 1.0.0 alpha1 Released

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007 (09:39)

Solar 1.0.0 alpha 1 is here! I’m at the point where I’m ready to call it feature-complete, so that it provides at least 80% of what you need for web- and cli-based applications. Read on for highlights, especially about the new ORM system.

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