I’m reinvestigating Doctrine and Zend Framework for a new project.  I’d dismissed them last year as not meeting my needs, but am giving it another go this year.  I have to say I’ve got mixed impressions at best, as there seems to be little in the way of documentation with real use cases.
I would have [...]

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A few weeks ago, I posted a survey asking for input on the next magazine topic for Web Dev Publishing to pursue.  The results were interesting, but unfortunately the results were not definitive, and I’m left with the same quandry as before – which topic to choose.
The winner of the survey, selected at random, was [...]

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After having spent much time with Groovy/Java, and a bit with Ruby and a bit with C#, I have a newer perspective on learning new programming languages.  Much of my thoughts are summed up by this post from Gustavo Duartes.  I liked his choice of words at the top – “language dabbling” – which largely [...]

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I’m turning to the community to help determine what our next magazine topic should be.  Please visit http://webdevpub.com/topics to give your input on what you’d be interested in reading more about.  Entrants who submit an email address will be entered to win an Amazon gift card, to drawn on our around December 9.

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I gave a talk today at the Raleigh Code Camp titled “PHP On Windows”.  It was decently attended, given the attendee focus at a Microsoft-sponsored event.  MS has been embracing PHP much more publicly over the last year or so, and I reviewed some of the steps they’ve been taking (auto-install on IIS7, recent bytecode [...]

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My brother wrote a Magento module recently – the Facebook Connect Module.  It’s pretty straightforward, and allows you to make it easier for shoppers to enter in their information in to your Magento store.  When checking out, they can connect their Facebook info, using the Facebook Connect process, and their information will be imported in [...]

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I’ll be traveling the next 10 days, including time in London May 12-17 and Copenhagen May 18-20.  If any PHP or web people would like to get together for a drink/meal/chat/podcast/whatever, let me know.  I’m planning on attending one of the Dojo dinner activities (I think it’s Thursday May 14) so if you’re already going [...]

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Obviously I rubbed some people the wrong way, and didn’t explain my question(s) clearly enough from the outset, then got wrapped up in taking some offense from some of the responses.  Reviewing everything today I can see where I could have responded differently, and more clearly, earlier on.  Apologies to anyone who was offended (if [...]

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Why does this work? Why does this show the email address?
#1<?phpclass person {    private $email = “foo”;    function showEmail() {         echo $this->email;     }}class user extends person {}$u = new user();$u->showEmail();
but this doesn’t?
#2<?phpclass person {    private $email = “foo”;}class user extends person {    function showEmail() {        echo $this->email;    }}$u = new user();$u->showEmail();
Also, [...]

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Finally, after much work, we’ve got the first issue of JavaScript magazine (affectionately known as JSMag) out.  Extra special thanks to Rebecca Murphey for her helping hand in an hour of need.  You can read about all the authors or take a look at the first issue or even grab yourself a sample PDF file.  [...]

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