Writing a site engine

At DevShed you can find many articles about all spects of development, especially web development. Recently they published a series of articles on building a site engine. The five articles do a nice job of walking a person through many of the basics, with some reasons here and there why some choices are made. Some [...]

SimpleTest – More than a JUnit port

In July, I wrote about all the PHP Unit test frameworks in existence. At the time I mis-named one of them: SimpleTest. Today, while reading an O’Reilly article (the infamous one about PHP scaling as well as Java), a reader comment pointed me to SimpleTest again.

This time I began looking at it in earnest, [...]

Web development with PHP is different than with Java

Jon Lim links to a posting on Site Point Forums that exposes the difference between web application development with PHP and Java. Java uses a centralized approach for much of the application state, whereas PHP doesn’t. The crux of the difference is this:

In J2EE, the java virtual machine does not get re-loaded in [...]

PHP Performance tool

Last week I started work on a little tool for my PHP programming. My scripts are (somewhat) OOP based, although I’m still learning all the nuances of that. Anyway, one day I was curious: when it comes time to begin improving the performance of the application, it makes sense that one should begin with the [...]

Unit testing for PHP

:: phpPatterns() – Unit Testing in PHP has a nice introduction to Unit Testing for PHP developers. What it is, how to do it and examples. Good reading for those who want to develop their skills beyond mere syntax knowledge.