Pingdom.com: Exploring the software behind Facebook, the world's largest site
On pingdom.com there's a recent article posted looking at some of the technology behind Facebook and how they manage to keep up with the huge demand put on them and their servers. At the scale that...
View ArticleDZone.com: Writing Better PHP: Three Guides
On DZone.com today John Esposito has posted about three guides that want to help you improve your PHP development skills (including a forum post and two articles). Sometimes, then, improving your...
View ArticleNikita Popov's Blog: Don't be STUPID: GRASP SOLID!
Nikita Popov talks about the SOLID coding practices and creates his own acronym for the complete opposite - STUPID (Singleon, Tight coupling, Untestable, Premature optimization, Indescriptive naming,...
View ArticleEd Finkler's Blog: The MicroPHP Manifesto
Ed Finkler has put together what he calls the MicroPHP Manifesto, a call to arms for the PHP community to get "back to the basics" and focus more on things like good well-crafted code rather than...
View ArticlePC World: How Etsy.com Grows in a Unique Fashion
Over on the PC World site, there's a new article posted about Etsy and its development practices and how it "grows in a unique fashion" because of them. The Etsy staffers are also completely serious...
View ArticleJonas Hovgaard's Blog: How I stopped writing awesome code
In this recent post to his blog Jonas Hovgaard talks about how he "stopped writing awesome code" by dropping a few things from his usual development practices - like unit tests and interfaces. If...
View ArticleMatt Frost: Agent of Change: Part 1 Preparation
Matt Frost has posted the first part of a series he's writing up about being an "Agent of Change" in your development organization with recommendations on how you can make changes for the better...
View ArticleMatt Frost: Agent of Change: Part 2 Presentation
Following up on his previous post about being an "agent of change" in your organization (work, open source project, etc) Matt Frost has posted his second part of the series focusing on the...
View ArticleReddit.com: Worst practices
In this recent post to Reddit.com, people have been sharing some of the "worst practices" they've seen during their PHP development (or may even be guilty of). For shits and giggles some colleagues...
View ArticleSlashdot.org: Book Review - Modern PHP: New Features and Good Practices
On Slashdot today Michael Ross as posted a book review of Josh Lockhart's recently released O'Reilly book "Modern PHP". In recent years, JavaScript has enjoyed a dramatic renaissance as it has been...
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