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OMG, PHP is Losing to Ruby, Python?

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ShareSorry for the hyperbolic headline, that’s just to get your attention. Now that I have you here, lets have a serious discussion.
The TIOBE Index was just updated with the February programming language rankings, and the PHP community seems to be a mild panic about dropping two spots in the rankings (from 3rd to 5th) [...]

Gerrymandered Code: Extending Zend_Registry to globalize session vars

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ShareIn my most recent post I talked about putting my toes in the Zend Framework water with stand-alone usage of Zend_Cache. This has been a great experience, and since writing the post I’ve been updating my main application with more caching anywhere I can see a benefit.
In the past couple of days I waded [...]