naming conventions

In the last week I've been working on writing a tutorial for our MvcTools component.

For this tutorial I've also written a very simple "HelloMvc" application, not only to have something to write the tutorial about, but also to test how the component would do in a more real life situation, outside of the unit testing framework.

With a follow up to a previous post of his about Delphi's choice of VCL over Prado for the behind the scenes framework for their software, Eirik Hoem has posted this based on feedback from the original post.

In this new post on the PHP::Impact blog, Federico looks at some examples of directory setups for web apps that can help to make them both scalable and flexible.

Fred Wu recently posted some of his thoughts on using the Zend Framework as a developer in other frameworks looking to expand his knowledge.

On his blog, Jaisen Methai posted about a very handy feature of PHP5 - the __autoload function.

A group charged with overseeing the development of the Internet voted Thursday to relax the rules on Web site naming conventions -- potentially triggering a virtual domain name gold rush to rival the dotcom boom of the late 1990s.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted a new tutorial (from Matthew Weier O'Phinney) about a handy feature of the Zend Framework's view layer - view helpers that can be added in and reused across an application to do some pretty cool stuff.

Sebastian Bergmann has posted a quick example of how to use the PHPUnit unit testing suite for PHP to create code for you (assuming you're using the test first method of development.

His example builds the class off of a set of test for a "BowlingGame" that ends up with roll() and score() methods based off of the naming conventions used in the test: