We carry our mobile phones with us everywhere; they have become synonymous to communicating presence and identity. It is within this realisation that an opportunity exists for deeper integration of mobile devices into things like payments, consumer-product-interaction, customer service, etc. The most supportive technology in this regard is Near Field Communication (NFC). There are plenty of reasons to doubt the prospects of an NFC uptake in the short term, as sustainable business models are still in the very nascent stages. In the long run though, there are definite arguments that could be made for NFC to become deeply integrated as a multi-touch point technology.
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17 Feb 2012
What is PSR-0?
Very basically, PSR-0 is a recently defined standard for autoloading classes in PHP-5.3.x and above.
If you would like to have a much closer look, a copy of the final document can be found at https://github.com/php-fig/fig-standards/blob/master/accepted/PSR-0.md
I am not going to spend much time on explaining the document or autoloading in general, as that is an exercise best left to the reader, but as a quick introduction to those that have never worked with this kind of thing before, I will explain the very basics and leave it at that.
