Templating is a common technique for separation of concerns in applications - separating presentational logic from domain (or business) logic. This kind of separation promotes higher maintainability and a better chance to reuse presentational code (by encapsulating it in templates), the kind of traits we would all love to have in our code base.
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Archive for November, 2008
OO PHP templating
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008Making web-pages go faster using PHP
Sunday, November 16th, 2008UI responsiveness is one of the basics of a good user experience. In the web environment, this often translates to the loading time of pages.
As it might be expected, there are several techniques to optimize the delivery of web pages. The Exceptional Performance guide by Yahoo is a great resource for a multitude of optimizations practices, including specifically two techniques which I will address in this article - script minifcation and concatenation.
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