Sam’s random musings

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p>WebReference.com: How to Manage Memory in PHP:

WebReference.com has a new sample chapter from Sara Goleman’s book “Extending and Embedding PHP” (Chapter 3) taking a look at memory management in PHP.

(Via PHPDeveloper.org.)

Tufte’s New Book:

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O’Reilly editor Peter Meyers’ wrote on our internal mailing list: “Fellow Edward Tufte fans: in case you haven’t heard the good news, his new book, Beautiful Evidence, is out. I just got my copy yesterday and while I’m not yet finished I can already urge you to grab a copy. The chapter on sparklines is a wonderful summation of how these new word-sized graphics can improve the explanatory power of our prose. Baseball fans in particular will love how he suggests sportswriters start using sparklines in their articles. Another chapter on mapped pictures shows ways that carefully placed labels can really illuminate what’s happening in a complex figure. Like all his other books, this one’s a publishing work of art: the page layout, the paper and figure quality, the prose. This one’s another keeper. And great news — in the intro he says he’s planning another volume to complement the previous four in this series. Mark your calendars for 2013.”

I love Tufte’s writing and his thoughts. My dad is an addict too.

(Via O’Reilly Radar.)

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50 Ajax Reference Websites from Around the World:

Max Kiesler is back with another great (long) list today - this time, it’s a great look at some of the best Ajax resources from around the world (and no, I’m not just saying that because we’re on it). He’s listed fifty of them, and in more than just English too.

Wow big good list

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

Ajax anti-patterns:

In this blog entry from Ed Burnette, he voices some opinions about what he calls “Ajax anti-patterns”, things that Ajax sites need to watch out for as they’re developing their sites.

Good list check it out.

(Via Ajaxian Blog.)

PHPKitchen: PHP Shell Gets Even Better:

Today on PHPKitchen, there’s some new comments concerning even more improvements to the PHP Shell package to provide more powerful shell access to developers on the command line.

I think this is worth looking at, but I am still weaning myself from PEAR dependance, to add another would counter that effort

(Via PHPDeveloper.org.)

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In a new post on his blog, Jonathan Snook modifies some of his previous comments directed toward CakePHP and bites the bullet to give it a shot.

So far not much said, but soon I hope. For a guy who has dissed frameworks in the past it will be interesting to see insights

(Via PHPDeveloper.org.)

The best Frameworks for Web 2.0:

leslie writes:

Whitewallweb has put together a list of several required criteria for the best frameworks for PHP projects.

Here at WWW we have recently been spending some significant time looking at various frameworks. We put together a list of several required criteria - here is a short list:

Due to a number of our existing projects being build in PHP we endevoured to find the best PHP framework for taking those projects and plugin applications forward. We also looked for the best framework across all languages.

The best PHP framework according to our evaluation (all things considered) is CakePHP.

The best framework overall for our needs according to our evaluation is Ruby on Rails.

Another framework that we will be keeping a close eye on is Django (Python).

For more information visit: www.whitewallweb.com

Unfortunately they did not really elaborate on the details, but it would be nice if they did. I know that I like CakePHP, and love working in it, but I often have a hard time explicetely saying why…

(Via php|architect - The Magazine for PHP Professionals.)