parameters

Francesco Montefoschi has a recent post to his blog looking at a tool you could use to ensure the quality of your code comments - PHPADD, the abandoned docblock detector.

New on the Zend Developer Zone is a tutorial from Trevor Morse about creating an API with the help of FRAPI, a tool built to make creating API interfaces simple and easy by providing a framework to build on top of rather than rolling your own.

We often read (including in the book Advanced Bash-Scripting Guide by Mendel Cooper) that if we pass variable names as parameters to functions, they will be treated as string literals and cannot be dereferenced (ie the value is not available).

But this is not so, variable names can be passed as parameters to functions and they can be dereferenced to obtain the value of the variable with the given name.

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Linux Pro Magazine: "While KDE, Gnome, and Xfce come with dedicated graphical utilities for monitoring notebook battery, you might still want to use IBAM to keep an eye on the battery parameters directly from the command line."

Jani Hartikainen offers a simple suggestion for making your code better - stop adding more parameters.

Packt: "Whenever we want to add a new device or create a new graph, we have to input these parameters. Inputting these parameters manually is flexible, but not very user friendly, and there is always a chance of error.

Using templates, we can easily overcome this problem."

Linux.com: "This week, we're going to discuss the ins and outs of adding parameters to your loadable modules and, as we did last week, we're going to work off the appropriate section in the book Linux Device Drivers (3rd ed.) (LDD3), that you can find online here."

Timothy Boronczyk has posted about an interesting concept you could use in your applications - currying (made possible in PHP 5.3.x and above):