Category: php

  • Less code vs. good code

    Alex Netkachov, Vidyut Luther, and Richard Heyes discuss the pros and cons of writing code that is short. Here are some thoughts from me. In general, I don’t think turning three lines of code into one line makes an application better, or more readable, or prettier, or whatever is your goal. The logical extension of…

  • Leaving Zend

    I’ve worked at Zend for the past 13 months, heading up an open source project called the Zend Framework. Zend Framework is a library of PHP 5 classes providing simple, object-oriented solutions for most features common to modern web applications. I was the project manager as well as developing a lot of code, tests and…