Category Archives: Programming

Material related to computer programming.

sizeof PHP data structures zval and zend_value

Posted on 2021-12-07 [Tuesday] by Jay Jay

sizeof( zval ) == 16;
sizeof( zend_value ) == 8;

PHP 8.0

Posted on 2021-12-06 [Monday] by Jay Jay

PHP 8.0 release notes: PHP 8.0

PHP type comparison tables and tokens

Posted on 2021-12-06 [Monday] by Jay Jay

This is handy: PHP type comparison tables.
And this is interesting: List of Parser Tokens.

How to compile PHP from Source

Posted on 2021-12-06 [Monday] by Jay Jay

Some light reading: How to compile PHP from Source. See also: Where’s the php-src/PHP-Internals Main Entry Point?.
Also good:

• Everything you need (and don’t need) to know about PHP’s type system
• PHP 8.0 released: it looks awesome!
• How PHP’s Just In Time compiler works

Complete guide to FFI in PHP

Posted on 2021-12-06 [Monday] by Jay Jay

Bumped into: Complete guide to FFI in PHP.

Four books

Posted on 2021-12-06 [Monday] by Jay Jay

Some book suggestions over here: Four books professional developers should read (and a few you don’t need to).

Developer Tools secrets that shouldn’t be secrets

Posted on 2021-12-05 [Sunday] by Jay Jay

This via r/programming today: Developer Tools secrets that shouldn’t be secrets.

Autonomic computing

Posted on 2021-12-02 [Thursday] by Jay Jay

Found some interesting reading on autonomic computing.

Slavoj Žižek

Posted on 2021-12-02 [Thursday] by Jay Jay

Today I learned of Slavoj Žižek while reading my MEAP copy of Street Coder.

Collection of TypeScript type challenges

Posted on 2021-12-01 [Wednesday] by Jay Jay

This popped up on #lobsters today: Collection of TypeScript type challenges.