In my most recent blog, I wrote about how I feel that too much of the world’s logic is coming onto the shoulders of PHP, these days. Today, I’m will be showing you why and how PHP’s powers could be harnessed better and more. We, as PHP web developers, should be absolutely fully aware that [...]
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PHP in the web development world: are we doing it all wrong?
Some thoughts and ponderings on how “the frameworks out there” might not do it just as right as they should. The UNIX principle applied? Something that is currently overlooked in a large part of the PHP community is that not all design patterns are necessarily implemented in PHP code. Your webserver can be considered the [...]
Tetris in HTML and Javascript
First, I saw the documentary Ecstacy of Order. Then I thought of great things, like building 3D Tetris in HTML5 canvas. I started it, just typing away, of course only Vanilla JS. But after a few hours, having the simple Tetris basics covered, I got bored and stopped. Tetris1 Source at github But wait, there’s [...]
Symfony2: A two piece puzzle.
If you’re getting started with Symfony2, you’ll get something running pretty quickly. The AcmeBundle contains some of the basic features you’ll need when writing a Symfony2 app. The basics lie in the MVC paradigm, so there is some model (Doctrine ORM), some view (Twig templates) and some controllers. However, none of that is the real [...]
PHPUnit: Closures as dataProviders help with repetitive code
Since PHP5.3 we have closures. The concept behind closures is unbelievably powerful, and even though PHP has struggled with the concept of typing, callables and whatnot, the main concept of closures remains: passing logic in stead of data, or even: as if it were data. In my previous post I argued that functional and declarative [...]
Declarative is the new black.
The paradigm shift in the purest sense of the expression. The old paradigm makes way for new ones. And declarative is the new one. Well…, not new new …
Symfony2 + PHPCR + Doctrine2 + Jackalope recipe
Lately I’ve followed some developments in the Symfony2 corner of the PHP community with great interest. One of the most enticing developments is the usage of a Content Repository as a backend for your CMS. There is some work being done on the Symfony CMF, combining Symfony2, Doctrine2, PHPCR and Jackalope into a set of [...]
Unit testing and Drupal; what’s wrong with this picture?
I guess the guys at Drupal.org didn’t really understand the concept of unit testing. In comparison to the Zend Framework 1.13 and Symfony 1.4 test suites, of which some tests did not pass mainly due to some configuration issues (98.6% and 99.9% respectively), Drupal had some, let’s say, surprising results. Though it reported 100% of [...]
Enhancing Python unit tests further with decorators
Decorators in Python are awesome. In follow-up to my previous post on a missing feature in Python’s unittest module in comparison to PHPUnit, here’s the implementation of PHPUnit’s @expectedException annotation in form of a Python decorator
Endless scrolling based on a simple HTML pager
We had a little brainstorm today at work at how endless scrolling could be best implemented utilizing progressive enhancement. Here’s my idea and a proof of concept. And a good example of progressive enhancement in pure form, if I may say so. The concept When I think of endless scrolling, I see it as just [...]