Use the Strategy to Avoid the Switch-Case Antipattern

In PHP we have tons of bad constructs/functions that don’t actually help newcomers on writing good code: the SWITCH/CASE statement is one of those that I hate the most, although very few developers rely on it.

Back in Track With OrientDB

It’s been a while since I don’t release any update about Orient, the PHP data mapper for OrientDB: we recently got back on track and I have a few interesting news.

Y U NO Access WHOIS Informations in PHP?

This post is part of the ”WHOIS in PHP: consuming the Robowhois API” series; here is a list of all the articles contained this series:

1. A PHP library to retrieve WHOIS informations
2. Retrieving raw WHOIS informations in PHP
3. Checking a domain’s availability with PHP
4. Y U NO access WHOIS informations in PHP?

In these days we finalized the last parts of the official PHP client for the Robowhois API , and here are the changes for the 0.9.0 version.

Search Engines Are Making the Web Slower

Like it or not, pushing the work to the clients is a tecnique which made the web able to scale the way it is now: search engines are making it slower and less scalable, as they don’t want us to do so.

Wanna Be Hired? Go Get Yourself a Blog and a Github Profile

As part of my last days in DNSEE and first days in Rocket I’m involved in two recruitment processes and after the huge amount of CVs we got for DNSEE after the Codemotion I thought it would be good to share some thoughts about my recruiting habits.

Checking a Domain’s Availability With PHP

This post is part of the ”WHOIS in PHP: consuming the Robowhois API” series; here is a list of all the articles contained this series:

1. A PHP library to retrieve WHOIS informations
2. Retrieving raw WHOIS informations in PHP
3. Checking a domain’s availability with PHP
4. Y U NO access WHOIS informations in PHP?

It’s been a while I don’t blog about the Robowhois PHP client that I’m developing together with David so, since we recently released the 0.8.0 version I want to share with you what you can do with it now.

Moving to Dubai

Yes, you got it.

Scaling Asynchronously Through HInclude

Since it’s been a while that I spread the idea of having ESI on the client side, someone pointed out that a good solution, technically different from the one I personally proposed, would be to use JavaScript to and asynchronous sub-requests.

Book Review: Data-Intensive Text Processing With MapReduce

As part of my studies not directly connected to my job, in the last month I’ve finished this interesting book, which gives you a good overview about MapReduce.

How to Argue With Junior and Stubborn Developers

In these days I had a nice chat with Önder Göğebakan to exchange some views about team leading: one of the points I loved to face was how to deal with arrogant coders that don’t want to consider the indications received from their technical lead.