Pretty major day in the world of the web, eh? The PHP development team announced the release of version 5.3.0. This is a major milestone. Here’s what I’m most excited about: Lambda Functions and Closures ternary short cut “?:” Optional garbage collection for cyclic references I’m excited about support for namespaces, but not the particular [...]

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I like Python. I like Ruby. I like C, C++, and Objective-C. I like Java. I also (actually) like PHP. I like programming – get it? Use whatever gets the job done and done well. Use whatever achieves the performance and scalability you require for a given task. Use what makes sense given a specific [...]

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