This Week’s Link List (October 29, 2010)
I’m consistently amazed on a weekly basis by the community-produced content that I see. Here’s this week’s highlights…
- Great advice from an impressive list of PHP masters: https://mashable.com/2010/10/21/php-tips-for-beginners/
- Rob Allen describes a bug with the SQLSRV driver that he ran into (and the workaround): https://akrabat.com/php/sqlsrv-v2-and-long-field-names/
- Keith Casey provides practical advice about unit testing: https://devzone.zend.com/article/12701-Unit-Testing-Strategies
- A new blog post on PHPDeveloper.org: API Testing with Frisk: https://blog.phpdeveloper.org/?p=294
- Five more PHP design patterns: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/os-php-designpatterns/index.html?ca=drs-
- What is good software architecture (in a nutshell)? https://test.ical.ly/2010/10/26/what-is-a-good-software-architecture-in-a-nutshell/
- Octavia Andreea Anghel describes parsing XML with the DOM extension for PHP 5: https://www.phpbuilder.com/columns/DOM-XML-extension/Octavia_Anghel102710.php3
- If you are not familiar with how SSL works, this is a must-read: https://blogs.msdn.com/b/plankytronixx/archive/2010/10/28/crypto-primer-how-does-ssl-work.aspx?wa=wsignin1.0
- Lorna Mitchell looks at a deprecated method in pecl_http: https://www.lornajane.net/posts/2010/Deprecated-Methods-in-Pecl_Http
- Sean Coates gives his impressions of the first Brooklyn Beta conference: https://seancoates.com/blogs/brooklyn-beta
- Ian Barber provides a round up of Search Solutions 2010: https://www.ibuildings.co.uk/blog/archives/1602-Search-Solutions-2010.html
- Lukas Kahwe Smith talks about JSON in Symfony 2: https://pooteeweet.org/blog/0/1850#m1850
- A new site devoted to PHP development on Windows Azure: https://azurephp.interoperabilitybridges.com/
May your Halloween be full of tricks (not mean tricks, of course) and lots of treats!
Thanks.
-Brian