marco tabini

This is my last post on this blog. I have enjoyed having a place where I could write my thoughts more or less as they formed in my mind, and it seems that a fair number of people enjoyed reading what I had to say.

But times change.

I own a company that deals almost exclusively with PHP knowledge, and it seems absurd that I should write about PHP here while php|a almost never gets to publish my pieces.

In a new post to his blog Marco Tabini offers some suggestions on unit testing - not really a tutorial on how to it, more of an "easy way in" to introducing it to your development process.

php|architect has officially announced their CodeWorks '11 conference with stops in ten cities including Austin, Baltimore, Orlando, Portland and San Francisco.

Simon Phipps, on the Google dropping H.264 from Chrome debacle:

But all these points are also true of Adobe Flash.

So why not drop that too? Is it not hyprocritical to keep it? If you’re an absolutist, probably yes. But there’s a calculation going on here about steering the web into the level plains of truly open standards.

H.264 support in the <video> tag is not the same as Flash support.

In a new post to his blog Marco Tabini has voiced his opinion on the decision made by the PHP development group to set the end of life of the PHP 5.2.x series with the latest release (5.2.14).

In case you've missed the latest happenings in the WordPress community, Marco Tabini is here to catch you up.

The issue? Licensing of themes for WordPress.

The WordPress community is abuzz with news that the WP Foundation has essentially gone to war with the makers of the Thesis WP theme.

The substance of the argument, as I understand it, is that the makers of WordPress claim that themes, since they rely on WP’s GPL’ed code to run, must be covered by the GPL as well because they are derivative works.

Thesis, on the other hand, is distributed under a commercial license, therefore violating this tenet.

Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:

• Fabien Potencier's Blog: Iterator or IteratorAggregate?
• Marco Tabini's Blog: Software, APIs and all the king's men
• Arun Gandhi's Blog: 15 methods to speed up PHP based website's performance
• Chris Hartjes' Blog: Fun with custom Zend_Views
• Brian Swan's Blog: Accessing Windows Azure

Marco Tabini has posted some of his thoughts about web application development, specifically in dealing with the creation of APIs for your site.

In a recent post to his blog Marco Tabini talks about the "monkey on the back" syndrome that affects so much of the technology projects these days.

His example for PHP? register_globals.