PHP Life : Extreme Simplicity

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Friday, December 9. 2005

PHP Life : Extreme Simplicity

I started the PHP Life cartoon strip last week, and thanks to encouraging feedback both here and via email I bring you the second instalment. This week I'm taking a small pot-shot at the new Zend Framework - and the PHP Life guys have moved over to their own domain at www.phplife.org. This will make it easier for me to keep the 'funny' side of things clean from my blog, which is supposed to focus on the more serious aspects of PHP development. Plus it lets you view the previous cartoons from a cleaner interface. Enjoy and please bookmark

Update: Ok I will include the strip in my blog as well! View the full article to read this weeks.

Update 2007: The phplife.org domain has expired and I won't renew it, as I don't have the time to create many new strips - however I have fixed all the image links, and if I do create some new strips they will just appear in my blog.

Ok so perhaps the framework code isn't that extreme, but it's not far off. I guess simplicity means different things to different people. If Joe Public wants to pick this up they will have to get used to digging through mountains of phpDoc files, forever stuck in an API maze. But like the strip says, at least it will keep us all employed

Posted by Richard Davey in PHP Life at 03:15 | Comments (7) | Trackbacks (26)

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I don't see a problem with mixing the comics with the blog. It's all PHP, and the humor's good leavening. That whole thing about being able to dance at the revolution, &tc.

#1 Bill Humphries (Homepage) on 2005-12-09 08:29 (Reply)

Fair enough - I will post it in both places and have added it to this entry.

#1.1 Richard Davey (Homepage) on 2005-12-09 13:07 (Reply)

Surely you could have phplife.org run off the blogs database? Then you just add the comic to your blog and phplife.org updates itself, you could also mirror the comments.

Seems a simple idea to me.

#2 Tam Denholm on 2005-12-10 12:45 (Reply)

if you end up separating the two completely, can you at least get some rss loving on the phplife site, so i can at least know when there's a new comic up?

ta,
josh.

#3 josh (Homepage) on 2005-12-11 22:35 (Reply)

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