static properties

I've been working on a series of articles for Think Vitamin, the Carsonified blog, about OOP in PHP5.

In fact I'm wildly excited about this, partly because I love to write and partly because its such a cool site to write for!

The first two installments are now live:

• Getting Started with OOP PHP5 - which is a very gentle overview of why OOP is such a buzz word, and shows off some very simple examples on how to begin and what the terms mean

Yukiyoshi Kameyama, Oleg Kiselyov, Chung-chieh Shan, Shifting the Stage: Staging with Delimited Control.

PEPM2009.

It is often hard to write programs that are ef?cient yet reusable. For example, an efficient implementation of Gaussian elimination should be specialized to the structure and known static properties of the input matrix.