Archive for category PHP

The Art of Agile Development

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.  [...]

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Facebook API 101 – OINK-PUG Presentation

“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 [...]

Using declare and ticks with PHP

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 [...]

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Simple Optimizing Tips for PHP Part IV – By Example (Part I)

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, [...]

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Progressive Upload with PHP and APC

A year or two ago, I was given the task to make a Progress Bar work with PHP. From my own research a few years ago, this task was impossible and so I thought I would need some sort of Flash + Javascript + PHP combination to make this happen. Instead, I found a nice [...]

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