Matt Mullenweg has a post about Hiring Diversity. A successful software project must fulfill many competing goals and factors and meet a wide variety of challenges. Diversity is the combined arms of software development. In my personal experience, the diverse team performs better. A diverse team allows the most appropriate team member to step up [...]
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PHP: Let Your Properties be Properties
January 19th, 2010 
Frank BorosThere is a coding pattern that I see (and have used) in PHP code that defines generic methods on a class for setting and getting properties. function set($name, $value); function get($name); Google code search for examples Some times there are some ancillary methods to deal with unsetting, checking for existence, setting via an array, or [...]
Benchmarking PHP’s Magic Methods
January 19th, 2010 Frank BorosLarry Garfield has an interesting set of benchmarks covering many of PHP’s magic methods. His results correspond pretty well to my own benchmarks in the area. The thing to take away is that its not necessarily the overhead of the magic methods, but rather what you do inside them. Its hard to do anything useful [...]
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