PHP 5.4 was released just four months ago, so it probably is a bit too early to look at the next PHP version. Still I’d like to give all the people who aren’t following the internals mailing list a small sneak peek at what PHP 5.5 might look like. But be sure to understand this: PHP 5.
Error Handling in ASP.NET WebAPIWebAPI is a brand new framework that makes it easy to build HTTP services. As such, it provides several features that make it easy to send back useful and informative error messages in a variety of cases. In this post, I’ll go over some of these capabilities.
Evaluating ORMs for Batch Data PerformanceEarlier this week I came upon a post (Entity Framework Comparative Performance) by Luke McGregor (b|t) that compared the performance of several ORMs for handling batch data.
Software Optimization: A Systematic ApproachWhat follows is the first in a series of articles on developing a formal methodology for software optimization I've been working on for some time. Each week, I'll post the newest installment here (they're all written, I'm just wary of dumping the whole thing here all at once).
SURVIVOR: Remaking A Commodore 64 Game In HTMLYou know what never gets old? ... Nostalgia. 8-bit Memories Many people have fond recollections of the 8-bit, arcade-centric era of video gaming between the seventies and eighties, the so-called "Golden Age.
Four Guidelines That I Feel Have Improved My CodeI have been thinking a lot about isolation, dependencies and clean code of late. I know there is a lot of disagreement with people vehemently standing in both camps. I certainly will not say either side is right or wrong, but what follows is what I feel has improved my code.
rafekettler.comDisclaimer: some of the things that I suggest in this post will make people who know better cringe. I'm not a designer and this post isn't intended for designers; it's intended for developers with little design aptitude and time who still want to produce decent-looking websites.
Visualizing String HashesCuriosity has led me once again down the road of the weekend project... I was doing some reading on different string hashing algorithms and felt the urge to see if I could visualize the grouping and collision tendencies of them, so I fired up Visual Studio and wrote a quick and dirty app.
Caching with TwemcacheWe want to correct an error regarding the slab calcification problem we mentioned in the original post. This problem only applied to our v1.4.4 fork of Memcached; this correction is reflected below. The recent Memcached version has addressed some of these problems.
Dad and the Ten Commandments of Egoless ProgrammingDad and I got to talk about programming for two weeks before he died. I was 22, a senior in college completing a BFA in graphic design. Dad was 62, an older dad than most. When he started programming at Tennessee Tech back in the 60s, he wrote FORTRAN on punch cards. He was a wealth of knowledge.
This Read-It-Later-list is just that, bookmarks of stuff I intend to read or have read. I do not necessarily agree with opinions or statements in the bookmarked articles.
This list is compiled from my Pocket list.