Redgee sent me an announcement for this product by the end of March.
Comment: “Delphi + PHP…. own the world man….”
K-RAD!
My programming pattern maxim
There are few people this side of Harry Fuecks who have rode the php design patterns money train as much as I have. In fact, programming patterns have been very good to me: they’ve provided trips to exotic locales, paid for my conference admission, impressed all the hot women…
Well maybe not that last one.
But Alejandro’s recent spate of GoF patterns on DevShed, besides being a blast from the past, made me realize that practicality hangs over my Pattern Bubble like the Sword of Damocles, pointedly showing just how oppressive programming design patterns in PHP are.
Time for a new rule:
“With few exceptions, by the time you deduced what a pattern is from its clever name, you could have just coded it.”
—Terry Chay, 2007
and my original inspiration:
“PHP isn’t Java. Deal.”
—Terry Chay, 2003
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Interesting PHP factoids
It’s times like these that I wish someone just told the reporter that PHP is a programming language for web development that has a larger marketshare than Java J2EE and Microsoft dotNet combined:
[Web 2.0 technologies] also mean applications can be built much more quickly, says Mr Boloker. He is a big fan of PHP, an open-source scripting language which makes building mashups even easier. Originating in Greenland, PHP is now managed by an Israeli company called Zend.
—Sydney Morning Herald
I didn’t realize that Rasmus wasn’t in Canada when he wrote PHP and that Cupertino is now in Israel.
Good to know.
Oh yeah, it’s nice that they’re allowed to use Apple Macintoshes in IBM, I didn’t know they’re so generous. Will they be taking his away with the Intel switch?
Other than that hilarity, thank you Dave Boloker for plugging PHP. Now I can go around saying that the former chief of Java Technologies at IBM Software Group is a “big fan of PHP.”
Rock on.
The Zend Engine is my bitch
I don’t read php-internals anymore because I’m partial to getting work done, but there was an interesting question the dealmac developer posted. Basically dealmac, like my current employer, has a large array structure in a PHP file somewhere that is included on every page. It’s abusing memory.
Brian then notices that if you use var_export()(a function I keep forgetting exists), he was able to cut the memory usage from 5MB to 1.2MB. Storing it serialized reduced the memory usage to 20% but with double to load time performance penalty.
How could a 300K file use up so much space in memory?
The way you answer this is to use vld to make the Zend Engine your bitch.
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A mile wide, an inch deep
When my brother was just starting out as an economist, he told me that economics was easy because it was “a mile wide and an inch deep” meaning that it was everywhere in social sciences, but analytical tools were so poorly applied and misused that you could strike gold anywhere you stuck them.
Books like Freakonomics [Revised and Expanded]: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Nothing has changed in economics.
I read this today:
PHP Seen as a Popular Hacker Target
Looking at other e-commerce security trends for 2007, the report also expects the wildly popular PHP programming language to continue to provide a bounty of opportunities for hackers. PHP was invented more than a decade ago and has been used to create every type of software program needed to operate an online store, including shopping carts, payment systems, CRM and newsletter applications. Unfortunately, PHP developers to date have all too frequently emphasized functionality over security, according to ScanAlert, who reported that its security researchers had uncovered critical security flaws in several PHP programs.
<sarcasm>I bet that was a challenge to find all those security holes!</sarcasm>
PHP application-level security: a mile wide and an inch deep.
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My data in a box
Warning. This post is too geeky for words.
The inspiration,
12:36:44 PM ed: I wrote a twitter client
12:36:51 PM me: Yes, I noticed
12:36:55 PM ed: that’s how I roll.
12:36:58 PM me: also changed some phpsecurity update thing
12:37:04 PM me: white and nerdy baby
12:37:31 PM ed: php security is for the squares, dude
12:37:50 PM ed: I roll with my globals registered and all that shit.
12:39:20 PM me: fuck that bitch, I say all ports open
12:40:09 PM ed: I ain’t afraid of yo buffer overflow!
12:42:16 PM me: Stick your buffer overflow in a box!
Which inspired me to rewrite this song in honor of Ilia’s new filter extension and all the hard work the PHP team in putting security fixes with the latest releases.
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Ghetto update: Costco
Those who remember an old post of mine, know that Costco is simply an amazing font for going Ghetto.
Now, Costco has changed their return policy so that the policy on computers now covers all electronics.
BTW, Holly, you need to turn on Akismet stat!
Callwave
Callwave recently released a widget to provide free visual voicemail. The idea seems to be that you configure your account to do a conditional call forwarding to CallWave’s servers. From there, the widget provides access to the website to allow you to view your voicemail.
Clever.
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A month into eating it
For almost a month now, I’ve been living in the best place to dine according to Bon Appétit readers.
Other than fast food, I’ve eaten out here a total of three times.
Things to get
What did you expect? A blender?
Gizmodo and others are unhappy that the new Canon 40D is the 30D with 10 megapixels and dust shake.
I have to wonder what the hell they were expecting?
[The 40D is a good camera after the jump]