nikic

Why objects (usually) use less memory than arrays in PHP

This is just a small post in response to [this tweet][tweet] by Julien Pauli (who by the way is the release manager for PHP 5.5). In the tweet he claims that objects use more memory than arrays in PHP. Even though it can be like that, it's not true in most cases. (Note: This only applies to PHP 5.4 or newer.)

The reason why it's easy to assume that objects are larger than arrays is because objects can be seen as an array of properties and a bit of additional information (like the class it belongs to). And as array + additional info > array it obviously follows that objects are larger. The thing is that in most cases PHP can optimize the array part of it away. So how does that work?

The key here is that objects usually have a predefined set of keys, whereas arrays don't:

zsup

Documentation-Driven Development

The philosophy behind Documentation-Driven Development is a simple: from the perspective of a user, if a feature is not documented, then it doesn't exist, and if a feature is documented incorrectly, then it's broken.

• Document the feature first. Figure out how you're going to describe the feature to users; if it's not documented, it doesn't exist. Documentation is the best way to define a feature in a user's eyes.
• Whenever possible, documentation should be reviewed by users (community or Spark Elite) before any development begins.
• Once documentation has been written, development should commence, and test-driven development is preferred.
• Unit tests should be written that test the features as described by the documentation. If the functionality ever comes out of alignment with the documentation, tests should fail.
• When a feature is being modified, it should be modified documentation-first.
• When documentation is modified, so should be the tests.

asmacdo

- name: Make sure the sites-available, sites-enabled and conf.d directories exist
  file:
    path: "{{nginx_dir}}/{{item}}"
    owner: root
    group: root
    mode: 0755
    recurse: yes
    state: directory
  with_items: ["sites-available", "sites-enabled", "conf.d"]

Vestride

Encoding Video

Installing

Install FFmpeg with homebrew. You'll need to install it with a couple flags for webm and the AAC audio codec.

brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx --with-libvorbis --with-fdk-aac --with-opus

soderlind

<?php
/*
Plugin Name: A faster load_textdomain
Version: 0.0.1
Description: While we're wating for https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/32052.
Author: Per Soderlind
Author URI: https://soderlind.no
Plugin URI: https://gist.github.com/soderlind/610a9b24dbf95a678c3e
License: GPL

mikoim

Parameters

Container: MP4

Parameter	YouTube recommends setting
-movflags faststart	moov atom at the front of the file (Fast Start)

Video codec: H.264

jpierson

If you are like me you find yourself cloning a repo, making some proposed changes and then deciding to later contributing back using the GitHub Flow convention. Below is a set of instructions I've developed for myself on how to deal with this scenario and an explanation of why it matters based on jagregory's gist.

To follow GitHub flow you should really have created a fork initially as a public representation of the forked repository and the clone that instead. My understanding is that the typical setup would have your local repository pointing to your fork as origin and the original forked repository as upstream so that you can use these keywords in other git commands.

1. Clone some repo (you've probably already done this step)

   git clone git@github...some-repo.git

salcode

# EditorConfig helps keep your project formatting consistent.
# See https://EditorConfig.org
#
# This is a modified version of the WordPress coding standards.
#
# Author: Sal Ferrarello (@salcode)
# https://salferrarello.com/wordpress-editorconfig/
#
# You can download this file directly
# to your project from the command-line with

Alyinghood

// SPDX-License-Identifier: MIT
// This doesn't work properly in all cases. You would be better off using https://gist.github.com/Alyinghood/21bdb81d6f83114604082bd019482ae3 instead
// See https://forums.nrvnqsr.com/showthread.php/9708-Mahoutsukai-no-Yoru-HD-PC-file-format-deciphering

#include <string.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdint.h>