exceptions

FSF.org: "If they distribute the exact same code under a different license to certain users that pay for this, typically permitting including the code in proprietary programs, we call it "selling exceptions"."

Ralph Schindler has put together a new post for his blog about some of the best practices for using exceptions in PHP 5.3 - specifically dealing with some of the new functionality that comes with this latest PHP version.

Rob Allen has a quick new post for you Zend Framework users out there on how to detect if a view helper even exists before you try to use it.

Brandon Savage has posted the next part of his series looking at exceptions in PHP.

This new article shows how to create a custom exception layer on top of the built-in handling.

Eli White has responded to Fabien Potencier's earlier post about templating languages in PHP with some of his own thoughts on the matter.

Mainly that he has only a few exceptions to the comments Fabien made.

Rob Allen has pointed out a Q&A PDF that consolidates some of the common issues that people have had on Rob's Zend Framework tutorial.

LWN.net: "Thus, free applications do not normally implement "features" which allow their users to do less. One might think that the consensus against "antifeatures" in free software is nearly universal, but, as the case of the okular PDF reader in Debian shows, there are still exceptions."

iTWire: "Maybe it's the cynic within that makes me think this way - but at the end of an event titled 'Microsoft'.'Open Source' == 'unhandled exceptions.' I was left wondering: Is this all an elaborate set-up?"

Tibo Beijen takes his own look at some of what PHP6 will have to offer and talks a bit about how it would have helped him in a current project: