On the Web Builder Zone (from DZone.com) Giorgio Sironi has a new post about closures with some real life examples...no really, real ones.I wrote an article long time ago about array_map(), array_filter(), and they are very handy in some cases, but I discovered there is a catch: they do their best when you already have a defined function to pass them. [...] So here's my real real-life example for closures: in my opinion, they are not meant for substituting foreach(), but for example to pass a curried...
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Many of us have had the pleasure of building a web application that
requires the automated building of thumbnails from images that are uploaded
at runtime. Thumbnails are hardly the stuff of Nobel laureates, but they're
an uncommon enough annoyance that implementing code to produce them seems
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It's a familiar situation: you've been developing on an application for hours and you feel like you've been going round in circles. You fix one bug and another pops up. Sometimes, it's the same one you found 30 minutes ago, and sometimes it's new, but you just know it's related. For most developers, debugging means either clicking around on the site, or putting in a whole load of debugging statements to hunt the problem down.
You've been there, right? You've had these same frustrations with all your...
The PHP development team would like to announce the immediate
availability of PHP 5.2.16. This release marks the end of support
for PHP 5.2. All users of PHP 5.2 are encouraged to upgrade to PHP 5.3.
This release focuses on addressing a regression in open_basedir implementation
introduced in 5.2.15 in addition to fixing a crash inside PDO::pgsql
on data retrieval when the server is down. All users who have upgraded to 5.2.15 and are
utilizing open_basedir are strongly encouraged to upgrade to...
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developer sets out to create a monstrous mess of code. Instead, messes grow
organically. As developers are pressed for time, lack experience, or are
faced with ever-shifting requirements, the mess gets bigger until it's too
big and hairy to handle. However these messes come to be, it could one day
be...
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On the Zend Developer Zone today there's a new announcement from Ralph Schindler about this month's Zend Framework Bug Hunt happening this Thursday, Friday and Saturday (the 16th through the 18th).Has Zend Framework been good to you this year? Are you trying to figure out what to give to Zend Framework for Christmas? Well, search no more- Zend Framework wants one thing: for you to close some bugs at this month's bug-hunt! This Thursday, Friday and Saturday of December (the 16th, 17th and 18th 2010),...
According to this new post on the Mayflower blog, the PHP_CodeBrowser PEAR package has finally reached a stable state.We already wrote about CodeBrowser 0.9 in August and after fixing a few minor bugs the Mayflower Open Source Labs Team is very happy to present PHP_CodeBrowser 1.0.0.The PHP_CodeBrowser package allows quality assurance tools (like PHPUnit) to create enhanced output including syntax highlighting and colored error sections. It comes with some basic template, CSS, Javascript and image files...
Richard McIntyre has posted about his experiences in working the features the Lithium framework into one of his current applications, mostly because of its support for Doctrine and its heavily decoupled nature.I have a legacy application which was originally written in straight PHP with a few classes that I have created for convenience, but this is old and I am wanting to get this into a modern web framework. [...] I wanted to update my site with better validations anyway so I will start with flash...
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