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Brian Moon
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Brian Moon writes Ramblings of A Web Guy, a personal blog at brian.moonspot.net about programming and web. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times, most often “PHP Coding Standards”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-26, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Only one comment is available, and it quotes a debate about PHP-FIG coding standards (PSR-1 and PSR-2) rather than discussing this blog's writing. The linked posts are not described by the comments.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Brian Moon, of dealnews.com, shares what he knows (and learns) about PHP, MySQL and other stuff
Most-linked posts?
- PHP Coding Standards2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-05-27
- Living in the Prove It Culture2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-03-07
What Hacker News says?
> Those standards are are a very accurate representation of the way the best, most popular open source PHP code is being written. PHP-FIG members have repeatedly cautioned[1][2][3][4] that the PSRs (notably PSR-2) are not a set of best practices, but merely a survey of commonalities of PHP-FIG member projects. Even then, several member projects do not, and have stated they will not, implement PSR-1 and/or PSR-2. Tre…
Comment linking /php-coding-standards
on “A command line refactoring tool for PHP”Submitted Living in the Prove It Culture as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living in the Prove It Culture as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PHP Coding Standards as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted PHP and Memcached: The State of Things as a story · 1 points
HN discussion