As it is nearing Christmas I started thinking about things I would like to see in the PHP world. I don’t have time to write down a long wishlist but a few things would make me a happier person.
Faster Eclipse/PDT/Zend IDE
Builtin, reliable, refactoring support in PDT
A good (good === simple and extensive) tutorial on using [...]
Yesterday we had the first OpenCoffee in Karlskrona at the new place Bistro Java. The initiative came from Martin and Christian at Svensk Webbutveckling. Really nice guys even though they seem to prefer strongly typed languages over PHP. We had a good chat about both business and web development in general as well as technology [...]
Last week we launched a new beta of our Swedish TV guide. It used to be based on Zend Framework 1.0 and has now been completely rewritten and upgraded to version 1.6.2. We didn’t seem to have any difficulties moving from 1.5 to 1.6 during development.
The framework is getting better and better even though I [...]
Handling SOAP structures in PHP can sometimes be really annoying. If an interface is defined in the WSDL as returning an array I can’t be sure that I will get an array. If there is only one element in the array PHP tries to be clever and turn the wanted array into an object which, [...]
A collegue asked me about calculating annuity payments on loans. So I had a quick look around and found many people asking the same thing. The concept might be simple but it seems a lot of people stumble when it comes t othe algorithm.
Most of what I found was online calculators. The Swedish site rantekalkyl.se [...]
There’s a lot of whining whining about the new namespace separator these days. Not only on blogs. At first I was a bit negative towards the choice but is more and more convinced it is a good one.
First of all, few of the people complaining seem to have read the RFC documents explaining in detail [...]
After more than ten years with Emacs and terminal flipping as my primary development environment, whether for C, PHP, WSDL, HTML/CSS or javascript, I decided to try (I mean really really try) an IDE for a while. As PHP is my main focus these days I have been looking towards Zend Studio for Eclipse. I [...]
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Well, I have been gone from blogging for quite a while now. Much have happened since the last post. Most notably is that I quit my job to focus on my web development company Mesh. This resulted in a huge increase in the workload for a while. Things are settling and work is now more [...]
I recently bought a new laptop as my new development box. A nice 17″ screen with 1920*1200. So now I was to setup a PHP development environment for all the projects I’m working on. I downloaded Apache 2.2.6, PHP 5.2.4 and MySQL 5.0.45. I compiled and installed them and finally added a few virtual hosts. [...]
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Yesterday was the first day of the International PHP Conference. I listened to Lars Jankowfsky in his session “Practising Agile Development”. Although different methodologies were mentioned it was mainly a one day session on how Extreme programming works. The session had a good mix of fun och seriousness. One of the reasons I wanted to [...]
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