The Rundown Yii Framework is getting ever closer to a 2.0 release, with the public preview announced in March now only having 60 open issues (579 closed). There are a lot of changes from Yii 1.1. Let’s take a look at a few of ’em. Namespaces Now that PHP...
A good developer will be familiar with and use numerous libraries. If you can find a library that is a good fit for your problem, it’s probably a better solution than your first crack at it will be. And the library has been reviewed, debugged and optimized by a wide...
Due to the requirements of a long-running project, I’ve been behind the times in C++ compiler technology. I’ll soon be emerging from this cave, which is why I’m glad to discover that Herb Sutter is again picking up Guru of The Week (GotW). I don’t think there are many...
Have you ever had one of those days? I’m not talking about those really bad days when everything seems to go wrong. I’m talking about one of those days where everything is going right and then there’s the one bug that crops up that spoils the streak. I was having an...
I’m just realizing that this here blog just celebrated its first birthday — my first ‘hello world’ post here was May 1, 2012. This seems like a good opportunity to go looking through the archives and point to some older posts that newer...
