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What's Wrong With (PHP) Globals

By Jason Felice
Submitted Wed, 2006-08-16 13:29

When I've contributed to projects with fewer global variables, I've noticed that the flexibility and maintainability of the code has been significantly greater, and I have more fun working with it. My theory: if there are no globals, we can predict that an object doesn't play with any toys that we haven't given it.

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More Tool Stagnation to Come?

By Daniel Read
Submitted Fri, 2006-08-04 13:58

This does not bode well for Windows-oriented Open Source, and goes a long way to explain why even 5 years after the release of the framework, .NET-based Open Source has never taken off in a significant way. Projects like NDoc and Dot Net Nuke have been the exception, and now one wonders if independent, non-Microsoft-sponsored projects of any size can make it long term.

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Web 2.0 - As Seen from the Eyes of Chris Gaskell

By Chris Gaskell
Submitted Thu, 2006-07-27 06:53

My thoughts on Web 2.0. Let me know what you think...

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