Cal Evans has another update about the upcoming (Oct 8th through 11th) to the Zend Developer Zone today:

ZendCon is sneaking up on us fast. If you've not got your tickets yet, time is running out so you had better hurry. To whet your appetite, ere are a few blog posts or ZendCon mentions from speakers and attendees who will be there this year.

Included in his list are bloggers like Terry Chay, Brian DeShong and Mike Naberezny and events like the Happy Hour 2.0 and the Unconference.

Cal Evans has another update about the upcoming (Oct 8th through 11th) to the Zend Developer Zone today:

ZendCon is sneaking up on us fast. If you've not got your tickets yet, time is running out so you had better hurry. To whet your appetite, ere are a few blog posts or ZendCon mentions from speakers and attendees who will be there this year.

Included in his list are bloggers like Terry Chay, Brian DeShong and Mike Naberezny and events like the Happy Hour 2.0 and the Unconference.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted a new article from editor of the dZone, Cal Evans, looking at using fluent interfaces in PHP.

Fluent Interfaces are not a new programming construct. However, PHP developers have not been able to use them until PHP 5. Now with PHP 5 and the ability to directly dereference an object, PHP developers can build objects using fluent interfaces.

He starts off with a look at what they are and how (and why) they can be used in an application. He includes code example to help show how you would create an interface (makeNormal).

The code and other information are pulled from a few sources:

• this article by Mike Naberezny
• a post from Paul Jones
• a blog post from Martin Fowler

Cal also mentions what he got into the fluent interfaces game for - creating a tag cloud with a fluent interface over the normal arguments/properties method.

The Zend Developer Zone has posted a new article from editor of the dZone, Cal Evans, looking at using fluent interfaces in PHP.

Fluent Interfaces are not a new programming construct. However, PHP developers have not been able to use them until PHP 5. Now with PHP 5 and the ability to directly dereference an object, PHP developers can build objects using fluent interfaces.

He starts off with a look at what they are and how (and why) they can be used in an application. He includes code example to help show how you would create an interface (makeNormal).

The code and other information are pulled from a few sources:

• this article by Mike Naberezny
• a post from Paul Jones
• a blog post from Martin Fowler

Cal also mentions what he got into the fluent interfaces game for - creating a tag cloud with a fluent interface over the normal arguments/properties method.