Monthly Archives: August 2008

Solar System

In the spirit of some other framework projects, the Solar Framework for PHP 5 now offers a ready-to-use Solar system to get new users off to a quick start. It’s not prepared as a tarball just yet, but it is … Continue reading

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BREAD, not CRUD

Several developers have asked me what “BREAD” means in web applications. Most everyone knows that CRUD is “create, read, update, delete,” but I think that misses an important aspect of web apps: the listing of records to select from. I … Continue reading

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Savant Has A New Owner

As many of you know, I’ve been the lead of many different PHP libraries over the years: Contact_Vcard_Parse, Contact_Vcard_Build, DB_Table, Text_Wiki, and others. As each matured, I handed them over to other maintainers who continued to improve on them and … Continue reading

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Ledger’s Joker

I plan on writing a much lengthier post about The Dark Knight, and especially about Heath Ledger’s portrayal of the Joker. But I want to get this bit out first. It took me a while to figure out what it … Continue reading

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My Birthday Present From php.net

The folks at php.net have given me a very nice birthday present. As of today, they are end-of-lifing PHP version 4. Thanks guys, this is something I’ve wanted for a while now!

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Exceptional command-line PHP

(Yes, I know, I’ve done no blogging in far too long. I’ve got a stack of stuff to blog about, but it’s all rather heavy. In the mean time, here’s something light.) When executing code at the command line using … Continue reading

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