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Interview with Matthew Weier O’Phinney

Kevin Schroeder, tech evangelist at Zend, recently interviewed Zend Framework lead Matthew Weier O’Phinney. The two talk about Weier O’Phinney’s history with Zend and experiences with maintaining and developing the Zend Framework. They then go on to talk about Zend Framework 2 and cover the design decisions made in ZF2 and the things learned from ZF1 that will be altered. I found the sections on namespaces and autoloading in ZF2 particularly interesting.

Javascript Libraries Deconstructed

JS Libs Deconstructed is a website which clearly sets out and explains and explains the differences between jQuery, Prototype and Mootools. The index page gives a summary of the advantages and disadvantages of each of the 3 frameworks. Clicking on the name of a framework sends you to a page where you can easily browser through the source code (organised by class and method) of the framework.

Why PHP Namespaces Matter

Zend Framework lead Matthew Weier O’Phinney has written an article discussing the use and implementation of namespaces in PHP. One of the key points that he emphasises is that namespaces are alot more readable than the old Zend_Style_Classes. An example of this would be the hypothetical class Hello_World_Bar contrasted with the namespaced equivilant, HelloWorldBar. At the top of a file where the class is being used, the namespaced class can be imported and referred to just as Bar. This saves alot of repetition if the object class is being referenced more than once in the same script.

use HelloWorldBar;
$c = new Bar();
$k = new Hello_World_Bar();

NodeTuts

NodeTuts.com is a NodeJS video tutorial website created by Pedro Teixeira. As of now there have been 18 video tutorials published. They cover everything from using the ExpressJS web framework to creating your own NodeJS modules. The video tutorials are typically 10-20 minutes in length and are produced to a high quality. In the latest tutorial (embedded below) Teixeira shows how to use NodeJS with MongoDB using the Mongoose library.

Kohana 3.1 Released

Version 3.1 of the Kohana PHP Framework has been released. All enhancements and bug fixes since 3.0 have been documented here. 3.1 is API incompatible with 3.0, so don’t just upgrade your production server to 3.1. The changes you will need to make to your application to migrate to 3.1 are all documented here. Kohana 3.1 will be supported for 1 year.

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Fri, 11 Feb 2011 01:21:23 GMT
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