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This is a topic I describe at length in my Organizing talk, but I would like to give the idea a home on my blog for easy reference.

Include-Based Typical PHP uses what I call an include-based architecture. By this, I mean that the mere fact of including or requiring a file causes the execution of [...]

OpenID has never really caught on in a major way. I use it pretty much only on StackOverflow and 37signals products, and I really like it.

Regular (non-web-building) users find it puzzling, and don’t have a good understanding of URLs, let alone ownership of them.

So it works for geeks, but not for the general [...]

I am the first one to admit that I am not a UI/UX/design person. I believe wholeheartedly that the inmates are running the asylum when they shouldn’t be.

The project page at http://auraphp.github.com/ has substance, but no style, and style is so important. Can anyone recommend a good design guy who is interested in [...]

Cal Evans has posted his interview with yours truly: Interview with Paul M. Jones | Voices of the ElePHPant. Thanks for inviting me, Cal!

The Solar Framework for PHP 5 is is 6 years old today. From the Subversion log: r1 | pmjones | 2005-02-14 15:11:50 -0600 (Mon, 14 Feb 2005) | 1 line Initial import.

How far we’ve come since then. :-)

Here are the slides from my PHPBenelux 2011 talk about benchmarking. This presentation includes updates to previous benchmarks; the graph is on slide 40.

The benchmarking project has moved from Google Code to Github at https://github.com/pmjones/php-framework-benchmarks.

Framework and Application Benchmarking View more presentations from pmjones88.

Another unified constructor sighting in the wild: Ralph Schindler – PHP Component and Library API Design Overview.

Jeff Moore makes a very nice post here about Richard’s passing. He is survived by his wife and daughter, among others.

Please consider donating to their assistance fund. I was first acquainted with Cyberlot by email and blog posts, and met him in person more than once at various conferences.

He was always kind and [...]

For those of you who don’t know, “universal constructor” is the name I give to PHP constructors that always and only take a single parameter.

The parameter is an array of key-value pairs, which is then merged with a set of default keys and values.

Finally, the array is unmarshalled, usually into object properties. One [...]

I was lucky enough to be in town for the inaugural Nashville PHP User Group as resurrected by Ben Ramsey last week.

The presentation by Josh Holmes was interesting though over-long. My favorite part of these things (as always) is meeting the other attendees.

We retired to a nearby bar after the meeting, where [...]