php|tek 2009: Jason Sweat on Design Patterns
Submitted by Keith Casey on Thu, 05/21/2009 - 16:00Jason was good enough to give me a few minutes to talk about Design Patterns in PHP. Being the guy that wrote the book on it - no, seriously - he has some good thoughts to share.
Getting Hooked on Event-Driven Programming
Submitted by Matthew Turland on Wed, 01/21/2009 - 15:40A frequent topic of conversation that I see on places like Twitter concerns whether programming is an art or a science. Donald Knuth, a renowned academic in the field of computer science, is famous particularly for his 1974 Turing Award Lecture in which he says "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." He is also credited for another quote I rather like that relates to the science versus art discussion: "Science is knowledge which we understand so well that we can teach it to a computer; and if we don't fully understand something, it is an art to deal with it."
