Talks around Computer Science and Stuff
In: PHP Framework
28 Apr 2009YII is a PHP framework, with a lot of goodies such as : MVC Multiple DB ORM DB Objects Templates Caching Validation Ajax Auth Module As any other good framework, it comes with a bunch of tools, scripts to auto-generate skeleton code or classes. I have watched the screencast, and it seems fairly good. I […]
In: Design Pattern|MVC
18 Mar 2009I read an interesting post on Domain Driven Design on Fede.carg’s blog. Ever heard about Domain Driven Design ? Domain-driven design separates the model layer “M” of MVC into an application, domain and infrastructure layer. The infrastructure layer is used to retrieve and store data. The domain layer is where the business knowledge or expertise […]
I had the chance to attend the PHP Québec Conference this year. It was very interesting. I highly encourage anyone to attend such conferences if he / she is interested by PHP. Anyway during one of the presentation, I discovered an interesting little script / tool named PHPLoc. It is written by Sebastian Bergmann and […]
You are using some CMS but don’t really like the way it handles URL’s … ? For example, instead of having “www.mysite.com/index.php?id=12”, you would like to have “www.mysite.com/love” ? Well, MOD_SQLAlias may be the solution for you, it is an Apache2 module under LGPL, it “will intercept specific URI requests and dispatch them to the […]
Ever wondered what is the fastest programming language ? Here you will find some benchmarks. Have fun comparing the results. Languages benchmark Well, guess in what position is PHP ? Thank god Ruby is here… This website should add some “energy” to the never ending debate “What is the best programming language”… 😉
There are many posts about what editor to use when programming with PHP. I have been using VIM since about 7 months, I got convinced by a fellow coworker to use it. I gotta admit, it was a headache at the beginning, but the more I use it, the more I like it. If you […]
So.. I finally decided to start my own Blog. Why? Well, like many fellows, I do spent time to read about “stuffs” on the web and I felt it was time to share some of my findings. What do I read about usually ? Actually, kinda anything… Ok, I will start with a framework that […]
My name is Bashar Al-Fallouji, I work as a Enterprise Solutions Architect at Amazon Web Services.
I am particularly interested in Cloud Computing, Web applications, Open Source Development, Software Engineering, Information Architecture, Unit Testing, XP/Agile development.
On this blog, you will find mostly technical articles and thoughts around PHP, OOP, OOD, Unit Testing, etc. I am also sharing a few open source tools and scripts.