From xkcd. Â Especially hilarious after reading through PHP WTF.
Tag: PHP
PHP7 Reference
PHP7 Reference –Â An overview of the features, changes, and backward compatibility breakages in PHP 7
Unarguably the greatest part about PHP 7 is the incredible performance boosts it provides to applications. This is a result of refactoring the Zend Engine to use more compact data structures and less heap allocations/deallocations.
The performance gains on real world applications will vary, though many applications seem to recieve a ~100% performance boost – with lower memory consumption too!
The refactored codebase provides further opportunities for future optimisations as well (such as JIT compilation). So it looks like future PHP versions will continue to see performance enhancements too.
PHP Package Checklist
PHP Package Checklist – now if only there was a tool attached to this that could generate the report against the package…
PHP WTF
Here are the slides from Mark Story‘s lightning talk at CakeFest 2015:
These are both hilarious and scary at the same time. Â If you want more of these, have a look at phpwtf.org. Â And yes, be careful!
What should I know about building a website?
I’ve been lurking around ##php IRC channel on FreeNode for years. Â Only today I noticed a very handy link in the topic of the channel:Â What should I know about building a website?