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However, my post today will be on the RFC suggestion for built in getters/setters. To keep it blunt, I really dislike the C# approach... it's, just not very PHP. Just seems odd to have floating curly blocks with a "get" and "set" in it, with no real defined scope block. On top of that, the "property" keyword is way too complicated for what it is trying to achieve. The one thing I do agree with though, is the readonly modifier. My suggestion is loosely based on the Traceur Compiler by Google syntax (they use get/set keywords instead of function, within the class). Continue reading...

In jQuery (and other Javascript frameworks) it is quite common to use closures (I refer to them as callback functions) to loop over arrays or objects. Even though this is a slow process and is much better to use the built-in for loop, it got me thinking. Why not try and use the new Closure class in PHP 5.3 and see how well it performs within a loop? Continue reading...

Over a week ago I migrated one of my sites to a MediaTemple (ve) Server. I installed Nginx, PHP 5.3.2 (with Suhosin), MySQL, APC and Memcache. After a little configuration and debugging, everything was working smoothly except encrypted cookies. I was using my AutoLogin component and login never persisted, but regular cookies worked correctly. Continue reading...

Now jQuery Enlightenment (jQE) isn't much of a book as it is a helpful PDF. It's not as long as your typical book, but it gets the job done in explaining jQuery and its core components. The topics that are covered in jQE range from Selectors, Traversal, DOM and Manipulation, Forms, Events, Plugins, AJAX, the Core and much more. Here's my quick take and review on JQE. Continue reading...

Cake 1.3 has been around for quite some time now, but I never had the desire to upgrade with it being in such a beginning stage. Well seeing as how its now in Alpha and many users are testing it with no problems, I thought it would be a good idea. Heres how it went. Continue reading...