This Week’s Link List (April 15th, 2011)
Lot’s of news coming out of MIX11 in Las Vegas this week, some interesting discussion of the state of PHP development, and don’t miss the the latest build of WinCache that fixes WordPress plug-in bug…
- MIX11 news…
- AppFabric ACS: Single sign on for Active Directory, Google, Yahoo!, Windows Live ID, and others: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/interoperability/archive/2011/04/12/test.aspx
- First IE 10 preview available: https://reddevnews.com/articles/2011/04/12/ms-releases-first-ie10-preview-and-web-tools-at-mix.aspx
- Andrew Burst shares his perspective: https://geekswithblogs.net/andrewbrust/archive/2011/04/13/mixing-with-the-natives.aspx
- Stefan Koopmanschap shares his experience at MIX11: https://www.phpazurecontest.com/2011/04/experiences-mix11-conference/
- Windows Azure…
- Steve Yi, Director of Product Management for SQL Azure, shares his experience in getting WordPress running on SQL Azure: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/sqlazure/archive/2011/04/08/10151521.aspx
- Ben Lobaugh on using the Subversion dev snapshot of the Azure SDK with the PHP command-line tools: https://ben.lobaugh.net/blog/771/how-to-use-the-subversion-developer-snapshot-of-the-windows-azure-php-sdk-on-codeplex-with-the-php-command-line-tools
- That state of PHP development got some attention this week...
- Cal Evans asks readers "to stop and think for a minute" by exploring the idea that Drupal should fork PHP: https://blog.calevans.com/2011/04/07/four-reasons-why-drupal-should-fork-php/
- Marco Tabini shares his thoughts on the matter: https://blog.tabini.ca/2011/04/is-php-running-out-of-itches-to-scratch/
- Justin Carmony scratches an itch: https://www.justincarmony.com/blog/2011/04/12/php-itch-to-scratch-object-notation/
- And more thoughts on the matter: https://till.klampaeckel.de/blog/archives/150-A-roundhouse-kick,-or-the-state-of-PHP.html
- Dries Buytaert weighs in: https://buytaert.net/staking-our-future-on-php
- Cal brings the conversation full circle and, again, asks for reader's thoughts: https://devzone.zend.com/article/13773
- Tips, tricks, and hacks…
- Lorna Mitchell shares a tip about using pecl_oath: https://www.lornajane.net/posts/2011/Invalid-Protected-Resource-URL-in-Pecl_Oauth
- I would add one tip to this list of Eclipse tips and tricks - install the Windows Azure Tools for Eclipse: https://www.phpkode.com/tips/item/10-powerful-pdt-tools-tips-and-tricks-for-php-developers/
- Robert Basic shares a hack for making sure Zend Framework applications route pages correctly in multi-language sites: https://robertbasic.com/blog/zend-frameworks-translated-route-segments-hack/
- Volker Dusch shares a hack for avoiding segfaults when using PHP Unit: https://edorian.posterous.com/dealing-with-segfaults-while-phpunit-code-cov
- I had reason to dig a bit deeper into regular expressions this week. None of these links are new, but I found them useful...
- Introduction to advanced regular expressions: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/05/06/introduction-to-advanced-regular-expressions/
- Jeff Atwood loves regular expressions...of course: https://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2008/06/regular-expressions-now-you-have-two-problems.html
- Regex Coach - interactive regular expressions: https://weitz.de/regex-coach/
- Miscellaneous…
- Ruslan Yakushev is looking for help testing the latest build of WinCache (which has a fix for the bug that prevented automatic upgrades of some WordPress plugins): https://ruslany.net/?p=1009
- There are only a couple of webcasts left in this year's php|tek Webcast Series: https://www.phparch.com/2011/01/2011-phptek-webcast-series/
- Adrian Schneider shares his thoughts on securely storing passwords in PHP: https://adrianschneider.ca/2011/04/securely-storing-passwords-in-php/
- Eric Lamb on custom routes with Zend Framework: https://blog.ericlamb.net/2011/04/custom-routes-with-zend-framework/?sms_ss=dzone&at_xt=4da30681388676c2,0
- Eric Hogue shows why and how to profile PHP applications: https://css.dzone.com/news/profiling-php-application
- DPCRadio: Real World Dependency Injection: https://techportal.ibuildings.com/2011/04/12/dpcradio-real-world-dependency-injection/
- Who better to address PHP performance than Rasmus Lerdorf? https://ontwik.com/php/php-performance-by-rasmus-lerdorf/
- Jason Gilmore explores 5 popular PHP template engines: https://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/5-template-engines/Jason_Gilmore04072011.php3
- Two reviews of Jason Gilmore's latest book...
- Just for fun…
- Ben Lobaugh introduces his new desk mate, Peggy: https://ben.lobaugh.net/blog/765/my-new-desk-mate-peggy
- The project that won Microsoft's U.S. Imagine Cup: https://www.geekwire.com/2011/project-won-microsofts-imagine-cup
Have a great weekend!
-Brian