David Singleton , a Web Developer working at Last.fm, living in London.

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Things I've tagged “php” (18 things)

• PHP ActiveRecord   (Sunday March 14, 2010)

  A cleanish looking implementation of the ActiveRecord pattern in PHP. Tempted to use try this out in forthcoming project.

  Also tagged php activerecord pattern library programming

• Faster PHP fo shizzle—HipHop for PHP   (Thursday February 4, 2010)

  One of the first sensible write ups of Facebooks HipHop, by someone who's actually been involved. Covers why it's irrelevant for 99% of PHP users, the rare times it might be useful and a whole bunch of internal facebook scaling background too.

  Also tagged interesting php facebook scaling

• "Facebook rewrites PHP runtime"   (Sunday January 31, 2010)

  Looks like the new PHP compiler that was rumored a while back.

  Also tagged php optimization facebook

• Custom apache log format - setting variables from PHP   (Monday October 26, 2009)

  Using apache_note for custom logging from PHP.

  Also tagged php logging apache

• Understanding and Implementing map & reduce in PHP   (Monday August 24, 2009)

  "To demonstrate some uses of PHP 5.3's fun, new anonymous functions let's implement the famous functions: map and reduce."

  Also tagged php mapreduce programming code

• TextMate tip: Validate PHP syntax when saving   (Wednesday July 8, 2009)

  5 second change to force Textmate to lint the current PHP on save. Hugely useful.

  Also tagged php textmate error lint

• Web.php   (Thursday May 28, 2009)

  Micro PHP framework based on web.py

  Also tagged php

• Create daemons in PHP   (Thursday April 16, 2009)

  The basics on system daemons, why you'd write one in PHP, and some good examples.

  Also tagged programming development php unix daemons

• Dwoo - a PHP Template Engine   (Saturday March 14, 2009)

  Dwoo is a PHP5 template engine positioned as an alternative to Smarty, it is (nearly) fully compatible with its templates and plugins, but it is written from scratch and aimed at going one step further with a cleaner codebase.

  Also tagged templates php5 templating php smarty template

• andyhd's minim at master - GitHub   (Wednesday March 11, 2009)

  Minim is a minimalist PHP web application framework. The idea here is to have a bare minimum of features for your web application.

  Also tagged framework webdev mvc php

• Flourish: A developer-friendly PHP library   (Tuesday January 13, 2009)

  Also tagged php frameworks libraries

• Five reasons why the shut-op operator (@) should be avoided   (Monday January 5, 2009)

  Also tagged programming php

• Rephlux and PHP memory usage with a PEAR surpise - Professional PHP   (Saturday December 13, 2008)

  Also tagged programming php performance pear

• The PHP Benchmark   (Friday December 5, 2008)

  Also tagged php performance benchmark optimization

• webgrind - Google Code   (Wednesday October 8, 2008)

  Also tagged development php xdebug performance

• Upgrading to PHP5 on OS X   (Sunday May 27, 2007)

  I’ve been meaning to upgrade PHP on my macbook for a while now, today I finally got around to it...

  Also tagged osx apache php4 php5 php

• Teaching Bad Practice   (Wednesday January 10, 2007)

  I subscribe to the WSG reading list, an entertaining and informative round up of...

  Also tagged php bestpractice

• Code Golf: Whats your handicap?   (Saturday January 6, 2007)

  Over the holidays I came discovered Code Golf and got quite addicted to one of the challenges, for...

  Also tagged code hacking codegolf php