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Benchmarking Codswallop: NodeJS v PHP

Sometimes people link me to articles and ask for my opinions. This one was a real doozy. @reactphp @philsturgeon NodeJS owns PHP on website scraping ? http://t.co/zpWQBx3zvY — GDmac (@GDmac) November 10, 2013 Oh goody, a framework versus language post. Let's try and chew through this probable

Build API's That You Wont Hate: Part 1 - Useful Database Seeding

A little while back I produced an article called Building a Decent API which was mostly a tongue-in-cheek list of things that I'd come across in other APIs that pissed me off, or that I had done myself and used my super-power of hindsight combined with sarcasm to

PSR-2 vs CodeSniffer PSR-2: A Success Story

I've had static analysis tools running in Sublime Text for a long time, but for most of that time I have had CodeSniffer and it's PSR-2 rules disabled. I couldn't for the life of me remember why I had done that, until I turned

WTF is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM

Anyone who has mentioned PHP Fractal of Bad Design to me knows I don't give it much credit. It's a list of complaints about loose-typing in general, some "it's not Python" rants, lots of complaints about bugs that have been fixed, suggestions

Named Parameters in PHP

Named Parameters in PHP

Update 06/09/2013: I had initially offered to put together an RFC draft updating the original rather dire efforts at documenting PHP's lack of interest for named parameters. A more objective RFC has now been put together by Nikita Popov so I can ditch my notes. Wonderful.

Potential Variadic Function Syntax for PHP 5.6

Potential Variadic Function Syntax for PHP 5.6

An awesome RFC popped up the other day: Syntax for variadic functions, developed by Nikita Popov. I read through it and I loved it, but I did have to Google to see what the hell a variadic function was. This is what happens when you teach yourself how to code.

CurlFile and the Facebook SDK in PHP 5.5

CurlFile and the Facebook SDK in PHP 5.5

One of the features implemented in PHP 5.5 was CurlFile, a nice addition to the Curl extension to allow you to specify specific arguments as a file for upload. In previous versions (pre-PHP 5.5) the syntax looked like this: $facebook->api("/me/photos", 'POST&