It’s almost time for the new fanfest! For me this year will be the first year that i actually will make it there, and i can’t wait to see it.
Besides having heard about the new location (pictures are awesome) and all the activities arround the fanfest, what i really look forward to is the roundtables & presentations, from what i heard there will be a few quite interesting ones for us 3rd party dudes. Also i’m looking forward to meet some of the other 3rd party devs over there, its not like so many of us are in one place every day!
Monthly Archives: January 2012
microphp manifesto…
i just read funkatrons blog post,
and was a bit sad that there was no option to comment on it..
While the author is right an a few points about the complexity of modern PHP frameworks,
his comparisations are a bit off.
First, his cloc comparistation of Epiphany or slim vs symfonys http kernel totally ignores that symfonys kernel can do more out of the box, and has to do a bit more cause it integrates in a larger framework – obviously something simple needs less code, but it can achieve less aswell.
I can remember Rasmus Lerdorf speaking against PHP Framworks, and giving a hello world example for it – and he was kinda right, if you write a hello world script, you don’t need a framework. The same can be said about those microframeworks – they allow to do small tools, websites or jobs quite quick, but they lack when its about larger applications, and they get pain in the ass when working in a team. Also while the code can be quite readable and organized you often end up with a more throw-away-and-rewrite approach over reuse of code.
he writes he wants to do less code? slim framework, wrong approach. (he is right about the maintaining part though.
