Recently I had the pleasure of being interviewed by Eli White of Zend, “The PHP Company,” for the Devzone podcast PHP Abstract (by and for PHP developers). The topic of discussion was Torpor, what it is, what it offers, and why it’s being developed. Despite my rambling on there’s some useful information to be found
Torpor Pronunciation: \ˈtôr-pər\ Definition: Temporary or short-term hibernation, characterized physiological activity. The first mature persistence layer abstraction for PHP, provided by Yours Truly under the MIT license. Link: torpor-php (via Google Project Hosting) The name is a direct take off of Hibernate since it provides very similar functionality for Object Relational Mapping. It is not,
I’m going to have to take a moment and backpedal. I described the MySQL Sandcastle as an excellent construct for shared development against a large repository without stepping on the toes of fellow developers. In theory this is excellent, and in practice it’s proved rather useful especially where projects call for deviation of underlying structures
Developer sandboxes are crucial for quality software creation: a place to work in a locally destructive way, trying new avenues to problem solving at minimal risk. There are several different ways to put a sandbox together, but all essentially built around the concept of a scaled down copy of the target production environment. In the
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