The Knowledge of Others
summary
Argues that actionable specifics beat vague topics and shows concrete experiments: uses Symfony EventDispatcher then identifies collision and API awkwardness, implements a working PHP promise implementation that dispatches done/fail/always with randomized demo output, and contrasts with JavaScript callbacks. Proposes PHP variadic-arguments RFC (hopes for PHP 5.6) and recommends offloading asset work to a grunt asset pipeline instead of reimplementing compilers in PHP.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:50Learn from other devs
- 8:04Community tools
- 13:22Reinventing the wheel
- 21:26Symfony events
- 28:12Symfony event limits
- 31:32JavaScript event patterns
- 34:04PHP promises
- 40:15Python event dispatching
- 45:31Variadic args in PHP/Python
- 49:25Other languages for PHP
- 53:18Asset management
- 55:48Key takeaways and closing thoughts
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