What does surnamespacing give me?

• Accountability: Your code is directly linked to your family honor. You'd be surprised how hard people work at test cases and increased code coverage when the respect of their lineage is at stake.
• Connect with your Extended Family: Connect with programmers sharing your namespace, your family is now your development team.
• Minimize Collisons: The ball and chain associated with an imposed naming scheme means that we won't have everyone using foo and bar to hold their code, unless you're the lucky son of a bitch that has inherited that top notch surnamespace real estate.
• Faster Initial Development Cycle: Sometimes naming your library is the hardest part. Skip this step and just surnamespace it.

Jesus Christ, please show me some examples:

JavaScript Surnamespacing

var Christ = {
    Jesus: {
        walkOn: function(obj) {},
        turn: function(from, to) {},
        respawn: function() {}
    }
};
// Sample Usage
Christ.Jesus.walkOn('water');
Christ.Jesus.turn('water', 'wine');
Christ.Jesus.respawn();

Java Surnamespacing

package Christ;
public class Jesus {
    public void walkOn(String s) {}
    public void turn(String from, String to) {}
    public void respawn() {}
}

PHP 6 Surnamespacing (projected usage)

namespace Christ {
    class Jesus {
        public function walkOn($obj) {}
        public function turn($from, $to) {}
        public function respawn() {}
    }
}

Update: Apparently I can't write Java code. Don't tell work.

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• Requires PHP >= 5.10, due to the usage of PHP's new DateTimeclass.
• The new DateTime object parses strings using PHP's strtotime, so you don't need to pass in an ISO8601 formatted date, as in JavaScript Pretty Date. Try "now", or "next Wednesday", or "+2 weeks 4 days 23 hours 9 seconds".
• Extended to handle Months and Years in the past (JavaScript version only goes to weeks)

Usage:

// pass in a String DateTime, compared to another String DateTime (defaults to now)
$myString = Date_Difference::getStringResolved('-7 weeks');
$myString = Date_Difference::getStringResolved('-7 weeks', '+1 week');

// pass in a DateTime object, compared to another DateTime object (defaults to now)
// useful with the Propel ORM, which uses DateTime objects internally.
$myString = Date_Difference::getString(new DateTime('-7 weeks'));
$myString = Date_Difference::getString(new DateTime('-7 weeks'), new DateTime('+1 week'));

Download PHP Pretty Date (PHP 5.10+, 1.86KB)
http://www.zachleat.com/Projects/phpPrettyDate/Date_Difference.phps

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<?php
class I {
    public __construct()
    {
        $star = new Star();
        $star->size = 'little';
        $star->twinkle();
        $star->twinkle();

        self::wonder($star, 'What are you?');

        $world = new World();
        $world->elevation = 'So High';
        $star->setAbove($world);

        $d = new Diamond();
        $d->position = 'In the sky';
        $star->setLike($d);

        $star->twinkle();
        $star->twinkle();
        $star->size; // returns 'little'

        self::wonder($star, 'What are you?');
    }

    public static function wonder($obj, $query)
    {
        $obj->query($query);
    }
}

The above code poem is released under the BSD license. To use in production environment without error, please precede with the following command: error_reporting(0); Obviously I'm kidding, don't use this code. Not even for enterprise software.

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PHING! Party on Wayne. Party on Garth!

If you've never used Phing, it's an automation tool for PHP that is a port of Java's ANT Build tool. But it's not just for building (obviously, that'd be silly). You can hook all kinds of tasks into Phing: unit tests for your PHP code (you're doing test driven development, aren't you?), building your documentation, etc. But today, let's look at automation of my favorite front end development tasks: packing (minimizing) our JavaScript and CSS.

To do this, I'm going to hook you up with two Filters for Phing that will use the PHP port of Dean Edwards JavaScript Packer, and the PHP class CSSTidy.

Here's what you'll be responsible for:

1. Download both CSSTidy and the PHP port of Packer using the links above.
2. Download Phing if you don't already have it, and install it. Note the following change I had to make to my Phing \bin\phing.bat file to get it working: Change set PHP_CLASSPATH="%PHING_HOME%\classes" to remove the quotes: set PHP_CLASSPATH=%PHING_HOME%\classes
3. Download the two Filters I made for Phing: JSPackerFilter.phps and CssTidyFilter.phps, change the extensions to .php and copy into your phing directory \classes\phing\filters\
4. Change the path in the include_once declaration at the top of each of the files to point to the csstidy and packer libraries you downloaded above:
   include_once "C:\Lib\packer.php-1.0\class.JavaScriptPacker.php";
   include_once "C:\Lib\csstidy-1.3\class.csstidy.php";

5. Get a working build file set up to point the directories your project is using. Here is a sample I made:
   <?xml version="1.0"?>
   <project name="testProject" default="pack-all">
       <target name="pack-all" depends="pack-javascript,pack-css"/>
       <target name="pack-javascript">
           <copy todir="./Web/js" overwrite="true">
               <fileset dir="../Web/js">
                   <include name="*.js" />
               </fileset>

               <filterchain>
                   <filterreader classname="phing.filters.JSPackerFilter">
                     <param name="encoding" value="62"/><!-- 0,10,62,95 or 'None', 'Numeric', 'Normal', 'High ASCII'. -->
                     <param name="fastDecode" value="true"/><!-- include the fast decoder in the packed result -->
                     <param name="specialCharacters" value="false"/><!-- have you flagged your private and local variables in the script -->
                   </filterreader>
               </filterchain>
           </copy>
       </target>
       <target name="pack-css">
           <copy todir="./Web/css" overwrite="true">
               <fileset dir="../Web/css">
                   <include name="*.css" />
               </fileset>

               <filterchain>
                   <filterreader classname="phing.filters.CssTidyFilter">
                       <param name="remove_last_;" value="true"/>
                       <param name="preserveCss" value="false"/>
                       <param name="template" value="high_compression"/>
                   </filterreader>
               </filterchain>
           </copy>
       </target>
   </project>

   Templates for CssTidy include: low_compression, default, high_compression (declarations are limited to one line apiece), highest_compression (everything is put on one line).

   The above build file is set up to work with the following directory structure:

   • Build
     • Web
       • css
       • js
     • build.xml
   • Web
     • css
     • js

   Files are copied from the source in /Web to the /Build/Web directory. I hope that you can see from the build.xml file above that the target directory is specified in the copy tag, todir attribute.

   <copy todir="./Web/js" overwrite="true">

   and the source directory is specified in the fileset tag, dir attribute.

   <fileset dir="../Web/css">
       <include name="*.css" />
   </fileset>

And then, all you need to do is navigate to the directory holding your build.xml and run the phing command (if you have phing in your path. If not, you can use an absolute link to phing, for example c:\software\phing\bin\phing). Your minimized javascript and css will be in the Build directory!

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