object oriented programming

After our amazing roadtrip (see previous blog entries for trip reports), it was time for the first day of the conference.

Or actually, day 0, as the first 'real' day would be on tuesday when the main conference starts.

I wouldn't normally think a library is LtU material, but since this one lives at the intersection of embedded DSLs, process calculi, and a spotlight language, I think it fits: Communicating Scala Objects, Bernard Sufrin, Communicating Process Architectures 2008.

I woke this morning with a grin. Nope, nothing to with the Olympics; PHP 4 is dead and by that I mean it is no longer supported - no more official security updates for PHP 4 - or backports from PHP 5 or PHP 6.
The last release of PHP 4.4 occurred yesterday.
Why is this important - and why am I grinning?

Together with Arne Blankerts, I will present a four-day tutorial at next month's DevWeek 2008 in Bangalore, India.

We will explore three aspects of modern PHP development: aspects of web application security (1 day), object-oriented programming with PHP 5.3 (2 days), and quality assurance in PHP projects (1 day).

"Object-Oriented Programming with PHP5" is aimed at beginning or mid-level programmers that want to expand their knowledge of object-oriented features in PHP.

Although basic OOP support was present in version 4 of PHP, it wasn't until the introduction of version 5 that they caught up with object-oriented implementations of other popular languages, such as Java or Python.

The book does a decent job of covering the main OOP topics in PHP; as well as, touching upon some of the peripheral ones.

Disclaimer: I have no financial connection to the Pragmatic Programmers and other than through receiving these videos to review get no direct benefit from this review.

PHPFreaks has posted part one and part two of a new series they're working on to introduce those new to the language to the concepts of object-oriented programming in PHP.