nikic

Why objects (usually) use less memory than arrays in PHP

This is just a small post in response to [this tweet][tweet] by Julien Pauli (who by the way is the release manager for PHP 5.5). In the tweet he claims that objects use more memory than arrays in PHP. Even though it can be like that, it's not true in most cases. (Note: This only applies to PHP 5.4 or newer.)

The reason why it's easy to assume that objects are larger than arrays is because objects can be seen as an array of properties and a bit of additional information (like the class it belongs to). And as array + additional info > array it obviously follows that objects are larger. The thing is that in most cases PHP can optimize the array part of it away. So how does that work?

The key here is that objects usually have a predefined set of keys, whereas arrays don't:

dergachev

OS X Screencast to animated GIF

This gist shows how to create a GIF screencast using only free OS X tools: QuickTime, ffmpeg, and gifsicle.

Instructions

To capture the video (filesize: 19MB), using the free "QuickTime Player" application:

brandonb927

#!/bin/sh

###
# SOME COMMANDS WILL NOT WORK ON macOS (Sierra or newer)
# For Sierra or newer, see https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/master/.macos
###

# Alot of these configs have been taken from the various places
# on the web, most from here
# https://github.com/mathiasbynens/dotfiles/blob/5b3c8418ed42d93af2e647dc9d122f25cc034871/.osx

danielres

1. Download Font Awesome (source)
2. Take the file sass/font-awesome.sass and put it in your octopress sass folder
3. Rename it to _font-awesome.sass
4. Create a directory 'octpress/source/fonts' and put there the 4 font files (ttf, svg, eot and woff).
5. In your stylesheet:

• $fontAwesomePath: "fontawesome-webfont"
• @import font-awesome

Done !

g3d

#Mac OS X

Mensch coding font

Apps

• Webkit
• Chrome
• Firefox

jlong

var parser = document.createElement('a');
parser.href = "http://example.com:3000/pathname/?search=test#hash";

parser.protocol; // => "http:"
parser.hostname; // => "example.com"
parser.port;     // => "3000"
parser.pathname; // => "/pathname/"
parser.search;   // => "?search=test"
parser.hash;     // => "#hash"
parser.host;     // => "example.com:3000"

necaris

# Configuration snippet to let system-wide IPython work with virtualenvs
# Code taken from Ahmed Soliman's post at:
#   (http://www.ahmedsoliman.com/2011/09/27/use-virtualenv-with-ipython-0-11/)
# Tweaked by Rami Chowdhury
from os import environ
from os.path import join, sep
from sys import version_info

if version_info[0] > 2:
    # Python 3.x doesn't define this, so for convenience, we do.

ScottPhillips

#301 Redirects for .htaccess

#Redirect a single page:
Redirect 301 /pagename.php http://www.domain.com/pagename.html

#Redirect an entire site:
Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/

#Redirect an entire site to a sub folder
Redirect 301 / http://www.domain.com/subfolder/

lancejpollard

What is your folder-structure preference for a large-scale Node.js project?

0: Starting from Rails

This is the reference point. All the other options are based off this.

|-- app
|   |-- controllers
|   |   |-- admin

thebigreason

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