Recently I’ve been playing with a few new technologies. Some are new to me while most are simply new. My base project to use these technologies is a heatmap visualization of churches in Georgia. While heatmaps in themselves aren’t exactly exciting, having the ability to map more than 10,000 data […]
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One view of object-oriented programming is that it is a discipline that enforces modularity and clean interfaces. A second view emphasizes encapsulation, the fact that one cannot see, much less design, the inner structure of the pieces. Another view emphasizes inheritance, with its concomitant hierarchical structure of classes, with virtual functions. Yet another view […]
Fred Brooks on the promise of object oriented programming
Earlier this year Facebook developers caused quite a stir in the PHP community by releasing HipHop, the central piece in their high-performance arsenal. Here is the video of the initial announcement along with some juicy technical details: If you are interested in seeing how your PHP project fares when run […]
HipHop for PHP
3 I’ve spend quite a bit of time recently figuring out the best approach for incorporating some form of Sword libraries1 into my Android application. After an unsuccessful attempt to get the pure Java implementation, JSword, to work2 I decided to see if I could, instead, use the Android Native Development […]