不容易呀，PHP 在某些方面得到了 Ruby 阵营的 DHH 的认同（The immediacy of PHP）：
I’ve been writing a little bit of PHP again today. That platform has really received an unfair reputation. For the small things I’ve been used it for lately, it’s absolutely perfect.
I love the fact that it’s all just self-contained. That the language includes so many helpful functions […]

Class Query 是在 jQuery 之上开发的一个以 class 为主的 JavaScript 库。众所周知，jQuery 语法简单，应用方便，但却由于过于简单，没能提供更加强大的功能，比如 class/object 的扩展，这些对于协调开发都是不可或缺的。在这方面 prototype，mootools 做的都比较好。Class Query 正是出于此目的出现的。
看看这段代码：

<script src=”jquery.js”></script>
<script src=”classy.js”></script>
<script>
jQuery.Events.addEventListener(document, ”ready”, function(){
  jQuery.querySelectorAll(”div”).forEach(function(elem){
    jQuery.DOM.append(elem, ” <b>More…</b>”);
  });
 
  jQuery.querySelectorAll(”div b”).forEach(function(elem){
    jQuery.Events.addEventListener(elem, ”click”, function(elem, event){
      var next = jQuery.Traversal.nextSibling(elem);
      var animation = jQuery.Effects.buildAnimation( next, {height: ”toggle”});
      amimation.start();
    });
  });
});
</script>

class/object 可以扩展：

jQuery.DOM.boldWrapInner = jQuery.DOM.wrapInner.extend({
  attach: function(elem){
    this._super(elem, ”<b></b>”);
  }
});

Happy April Fools Day 2008

A Practitioner’s Approach to Performance Testing
The application is horribly slow.”, “I don’t get the response even after I get my coffee.”, “This application is useless”. Sounds familiar? How many times have we heard these quotes or or felt like that ourselves? The common thread between these statements is that the performance of the application is […]

貌似不错，开始做 AJAX 部分的开发了，正好拿来用用，省了自己写，呵呵。不过我已经封装了一些常用的 AJAX actions 了，基于 jQuery 的，可以让编程者从 JavaScript 解脱出来，专注于 PHP 部分的编码。
An overview of new features included in the 1.5 Preview Release:

New Zend_Form component with support for AJAX-enabled form elements
New action and view helpers for automating and facilitating AJAX requests and alternate response formats
Infocard and OpenID authentication adapters
Support for complex Lucene searches, including fuzzy, date-range, […]

Rails for PHP Developers 很不错的网站，通过类比 Ruby 和 PHP 语法、函数，来让 PHP 开发人员更好地理解、学习 Ruby。去年买了几本 Ruby 的书，也没抽空去好好学习，想想都惭愧。