progrium

#!/bin/bash

cmd-hello() {
  declare desc="Displays a friendly hello"
  declare firstname="$1" lastname="$2"
  echo "Hello, $firstname $lastname."
}

cmd-help() {
  declare desc="Shows help information for a command"

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:

dnagir

href2selector = (href) -> href.match(/(#.+)/)[1]

class App.ContentSwitcher extends Spine.Controller
  elements:
    'li': 'items'
  events:
    'click li a': 'clickLink'

  constructor: ->
    super

rodrigorm

Installation

First you need php-cgi, i used brew with Formula below:

$ curl -O https://gist.github.com/raw/1131062/7ae1709453a8a19ce9c030bf41d544dd08d96d85/php.rb
$ mv php.rb `brew --prefix`/Library/Formula
$ brew install php --with-mysql

Second, install this ruby gems:

kentbrew

(function (w, d, a) {
  var $ = w[a.k] = {};
  $.a = a;
  $.w = w;
  $.d = d;
  $.f = (function () { 
    return {   
      getEl: function (v) {
        // helper: which is the target of this event?
        var el;

felixge

10 Ways to improve Github Issues

I love the new GitHub issues, here are some ideas to make it perfect, ordered by priority:

1. I should be able to pick the assignee and milestone via keyboard when creating a new ticket

2. Keyboard shortcuts should work everywhere. E.g. when viewing an existing issue, 'c' does not work.

3. After creating an issue, the assigned user / milestone should be remembered and pre-filled.

4. Allow assigning a different user while commenting. Right now this deletes my half-typed comment.

5. When typing the @ symbol to mention somebody, it should auto-complete the name.

6. Things feel a little sluggish right now, any speed improvements would be very welcome.

lox

Proposal for Phark, a sane php package manager

As it stands PEAR sucks. It's complicated, clumsy and is full of utter garbage (sorry).

PHP is rapidly dying because we don't have any decent way of writing code that can easily build on the work of others. What we need is a simple, open package management system like rubygems.

We now have decent support for namespaces, class autoloading and archives. I propose we abandon

jwage

<?php

/*
 * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS
 * "AS IS" AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT
 * LIMITED TO, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR
 * A PARTICULAR PURPOSE ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT
 * OWNER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL,
 * SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT
 * LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE,