Comments for John M Parks http://johnmparks.com John M Parks Photography, Web Design, Poetry, Writing, Art, and Programming Tue, 06 Jan 2009 04:47:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5-RC1 Comment on The #twittersecret by David Alston http://johnmparks.com/social-networking/the-twittersecret#comment-168 David Alston Sat, 13 Dec 2008 02:08:22 +0000 http://johnmparks.com/?p=33#comment-168 John, I'm still waiting for someone to break the second half of the secret. I'm sure Jon Burg will on Sunday if no one does in the meantime. Cheers. David John, I’m still waiting for someone to break the second half of the secret. I’m sure Jon Burg will on Sunday if no one does in the meantime. Cheers. David

]]> Comment on The #twittersecret by John Parks http://johnmparks.com/social-networking/the-twittersecret#comment-167 John Parks Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:39:39 +0000 http://johnmparks.com/?p=33#comment-167 So what's the buzz now? So what’s the buzz now?

]]> Comment on The #twittersecret by Chris Ramsey http://johnmparks.com/social-networking/the-twittersecret#comment-166 Chris Ramsey Fri, 12 Dec 2008 22:16:50 +0000 http://johnmparks.com/?p=33#comment-166 close, but not quite john... close, but not quite john…

]]> Comment on Clearheart Vodka Commercial Shoot by Layla http://johnmparks.com/metro-studios/clearheart-vodka-commercial-shoot#comment-148 Layla Wed, 29 Oct 2008 08:47:09 +0000 http://johnmparks.com/?p=31#comment-148 Keep up the good work. Keep up the good work.

]]> Comment on Spring by Ryan http://johnmparks.com/poetry/spring#comment-14 Ryan Mon, 28 Apr 2008 06:41:38 +0000 http://johnmparks.com/uncategorized/spring#comment-14 this picture is great! nice work brotha! this picture is great! nice work brotha!

]]> Comment on PHP Programming Structure by Russ http://johnmparks.com/web-development/php-programming-structure#comment-9 Russ Sun, 09 Mar 2008 20:15:18 +0000 http://johnmparks.com/web-development/php-programming-structure#comment-9 More like "Programming Structure." IANAPD but the only thing I can come up with that would make PHP development fundamentally different than, say, C++, C, Java, Python, C# or any other language that I do code in is the issue of server performance. If you're really, _really_ hurting for server resources, I could see that it would be possible that you not want to require the server to fetch and parse 10 different .inc.php files per request. But it also seems likely to me that developer time and energy is more valuable than a little extra (possibly negligible) web server strain. But if you really look at it, the same thing goes for traditional software development - even though technically the CPU has to set up a stack frame for every function/method call does not mean it's a bad idea to separate discreet chunks of code into functions/methods for the purposes of readability and maintainability. Nobody wants to read a 3,000 line main() function. Ever. tl;dr : You're right, and this applies beyond PHP. More like “Programming Structure.”
IANAPD but the only thing I can come up with that would make PHP development fundamentally different than, say, C++, C, Java, Python, C# or any other language that I do code in is the issue of server performance. If you’re really, _really_ hurting for server resources, I could see that it would be possible that you not want to require the server to fetch and parse 10 different .inc.php files per request. But it also seems likely to me that developer time and energy is more valuable than a little extra (possibly negligible) web server strain.
But if you really look at it, the same thing goes for traditional software development - even though technically the CPU has to set up a stack frame for every function/method call does not mean it’s a bad idea to separate discreet chunks of code into functions/methods for the purposes of readability and maintainability. Nobody wants to read a 3,000 line main() function. Ever.

tl;dr : You’re right, and this applies beyond PHP.

]]> Comment on Untitled 8 by Jen http://johnmparks.com/poetry/untitled-8#comment-7 Jen Sun, 09 Mar 2008 05:51:16 +0000 http://johnmparks.com/?p=5#comment-7 You are a beautiful man. You are a beautiful man.

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