Today, a buddy of mine (Jeremy Daley) asked me a (seemingly) simple question: “Did we ever establish if it was more beneficial to grab the length of an array before a for loop? instead of including <array>.length within the “for” params?” Obviously if the question were related to PHP the answer is quite evident: get [...]
Today, I bought a book called “The Art of Agile Development” by James Shore & Shane Warden. To me, it’s kind of like the developer’s equivalent to the Holy Grail. I’ll be reading this over the next few days (hell, maybe weeks if it takes that long) and will write a formal review of it. [...]
“Facebook API 101″ by presenter Jonathon Hibbard In this presentation, I hope to provide you with as much information as possible to start building your own very basic applications based on Facebook’s great API model. The API model, while unknown to many developers, is quite simple. However, getting started with it can be very challenging [...]
Today I want to talk about a construct many have never used, nor heard of: declare. This construct, when used in conjunction with ticks and register_tick_function, is an extremely powerful and useful tool. If one were to read the definition and usage on the manual, it’s usage is not immediately clear. But don’t worry, it [...]
As we write PHP code (or any language for that matter) we begin to start thinking about optimizing code. But even though our intentions are for “the greater good”, we sometimes miss things that should be obvious. Today’s article takes a look at: By Example All developers progress at their own rate. As we progress, [...]