Tutorials, thoughts, and rants about programming.
I wanted to write a quick post about a library one of my co-workers stumbled upon this week. It is called php.js and is a compilation of php functions ported to javascript. That sounds pretty convenient!
About two years ago I read of an emerging ORM-solution called Propel. Having just finished my first full readthrough of PHP 5 Object, Patterns, and Practice by Matt Zandstra, I was eager to research object relational mappers that differed from the one used in that book. My experience was one of major disappointment. After spending hours of frustration installing the library, and more hours configuring and running my first propel build, I ran a measly script to add an author to a bookstore database. And it was slow…much slower than one file of PHP. I dropped Propel, deeming it too unstable and unpredictable to run in any redistributable software. Continue reading ‘Get Propelled!’
With PHP becoming a bigger player in the realm of enterprise web application design, there are several questions that the PHP developer must ask his/herself. One such question is licensing, and whether or not an application should be open or closed source.
Since PHP itself is an open source project, the vast majority of products released using PHP are open source as well. However, there may be a need to license out software-as-a-service, or the need to secure your source. Enter Nu-Coder. Continue reading ‘Product Highlight: Nu-Coder by NuSphere’