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PHP Coding Standards

by Ryan Parman • 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 [...]


“Play By The Rules” Is A Hit!

by Ryan Parman • August 10, 2003 • Writing • No comments

After getting back from my vacation last night, and checking my referrers, I’ve found that my article “Play By The Rules” has been a moderate success! Besides having a metric ton of hits from Google, apparently Henrik Gemal posted a link to my article on his website… which is very good. Paland.tv, Phaedo.cx, and Deluks [...]


A Disagreement Perhaps?

by Ryan Parman • July 26, 2003 • Writing • No comments

A guy from Coding Forums commented on my recent article “Play By The Rules” on his blog. The only problem is that it’s in German. I did some digging around on Yahoo! and found a translation service. I punched in the URL for Morded’s blog, and came up with this (rather rough) translation. Ryan Parman [...]


Play By The Rules

by Ryan Parman • July 24, 2003 • Creating Websites, Writing • No comments

I keep ending up having these discussions debates with people a person that is beginning to irritate me. They keep going on and on about how modern web design styles suck, that there are no good-looking XHTML+CSS sites on the web (except, of course, for CSS Zen Garden), and that the all-mighty W3C is just [...]

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