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Awesome new features coming in PHP 5.4
• November 11, 2011 • Code, Software • No comments
The next version of PHP, which saw its first release candidate today, has some really awesome new features. You can see a complete list of changes in the README, but here are the ones that caught my eye. Classes Support for Traits (i.e., mix-ins; addresses the multiple-inheritance problem). Support for chaining from the constructor: (new [...]
PHP Coding Standards
• July 30, 2010 • Code, Writing • No comments
For the past several years, I’ve been developing a coding style for PHP that all began with SimplePie. Since then, I’ve been polishing the standards from one project to the next to the point where I believe that I have a solid, rational set of guidelines that others can share and re-use. Any feedback that [...]
Installing PHP 5.3 with mysqlnd on Mac OS X with MacPorts
• July 11, 2009 • Code, Software, Tutorials • 11 comments
Historically, I’ve always preferred to use Apple’s built-in Apache 2.2 and PHP 5.x that comes with Leopard. However, after trying to compile PHP 5.3 from scratch and connect it with Apache, I decided to just use the MacPorts installer instead. That did mean giving up control of a finely-tuned Apache installation, but in the end, I think I’ve ended up with a better localhost system.
Introducing DOMBuilder
• February 27, 2009 • Code, Projects • 4 comments
I hate the DOM. Actually, I take that back. I love the DOM, but I hate the fact that generating DOM nodes in JavaScript is so verbose and unintuitive. You need to construct a new element, then add properties, then construct a child element, then add properties, then append the child to the parent, and [...]
Installing FFMPEG and FFMPEG-PHP in Fedora 8 running on Amazon EC2
• June 28, 2008 • Code, Software, Tutorials • 4 comments
I’ve spent a bit of time working with Amazon EC2 recently. One of the things I’ve been working on is getting a stable build of FFMPEG and FFMPEG-PHP running on a Fedora 8 image in Amazon EC2. This is essentially going to be a tutorial to get things up and running. Of course, your milage [...]
Yahoo! Messenger redesign is live!
• May 11, 2008 • Code, Design, Projects • No comments
Internally known as “Aurora,” the new Yahoo! Messenger redesign has finally launched! I was going to write something up about it, but Ryan Doherty and Adrien Cahen have all written plenty. Check it out! Also, Digg it! http://digg.com/tech_news/New_Yahoo_Messenger_website_is_LIVE
SimplePie Beta 2 is now available!
• June 2, 2006 • Code, Projects, Software, Syndication • 2 comments
After several months of toiling over this release, and the past few weekends pouring over the documentation, we are now very proud to release SimplePie Beta 2! Nearly every major feature has been enhanced, as well as the addition of several new ones. Be sure to read the upgrade docs if you’re upgrading from Beta [...]
CSS’s text-shadow property in Firefox 2?
• April 18, 2006 • Browsers, Code • No comments
After nearly 7 years in Bugzilla, it appears that the CSS2 text-shadow property will finally make it into Firefox 2. According to Bugzilla, the patch has already been added to the trunk (although it’s not quite complete yet), and seeing as how its status has been set to blocking 1.8.1 (which according to this roadmap [...]
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