php

Serialized Objects

Submitted by doug on July 7, 2009 - 9:24am

It sounds pretty obvious. My php warning to you is:

if you serialize a php object, be sure that when you unserialize the object, that the php file which defines the object is loaded in memory.

in complex projects, the ifs-and-whys are often buried deep in the code. The specifics of my saga involve Drupal and panels.

Xdebug, Phing and SpikePHP Coverage Tools

Submitted by stella on April 30, 2009 - 3:39pm

Recently I've been looking into various open source PHP development tools, focusing mainly on Xdebug, Phing and SpikePHP Coverage Tools. Xdebug is an open source package of debugging tools for PHP, and is often called the "swiss army knife tool'' for PHP developers. It provides a number of useful features such as debugging, tracing, profiling and code coverage. It works well on a variety of platforms and there's also third party extensions for it for Eclipse and Firefox.

Stella Power

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Working with CivicActions since:

September, 2008

Role:

Engineer

Location:

Dublin, DB

Ireland

Stella Power joined the CivicActions team in 2008 as an Engineer working on a project funded by Sony to improve Drupal's internationalization features. She is the author and maintainer of several Drupal projects, including the popular Lightbox2 and FAQ modules. Previously, Stella worked as a senior systems developer and assistant development manager in financial transactions services companies. She has worked on a number of different projects, from billing systems to gift card solutions, and was lead developer on Europe's first Virtual VISA Voucher system. Stella graduated with a Computational Physics degree from Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and is currently studying for a Masters degree in Software Engineering in Dublin City University. When not working or studying, Stella can be found in the ceramics studio or pursuing her passion for amateur photography.

Projects:

Association of Governing Boards of Colleges and Universities

i18N Internationalization Improvements For Sony Music

Personal Website:

Personal site

Annertech

Community Contributions:

Lightbox2

FAQ

Code Review

Avatar Selection

Country Code

Ocadia

vi, Drupal Search, and Playa Del Carmen Retreat

Submitted by doug on July 8, 2008 - 5:35pm

LIVE FROM THE ENGINEERING PLAYA DEL CARMEN RETREAT... I first used vi in 1984 while writing an Operating System for one of my classes. I probably really learned vi while playing nethack during the summer of 1984. I've used vi in almost every job I've had since then. Even when I was on windows, I used mks toolkit or cygwin. That's a 24 years of vi use. I know that we all love our editor. And I have no desire to get into an editor flame war. The point is that I that I've been using vi for a long time, and it's very comfortable for me.

PHP 4 is dead

Submitted by Bevan Rudge on February 4, 2008 - 4:16am

Just a reminder that the deadline of the GoPHP5 campaign is upon us. There are less than 19 hours to go (at time of writing): http://gophp5.org/ If you listed your website, project, host or service on GoPHP5.org, then you should have finished migrating by now. Go PHP 5!