PHPBuilder.com: Exploring PHP Design Patterns
For those that might be new to development, the concept of "design patterns" could be one you're just approaching. These common practices define some "patterns" of development that have been proven to...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Help Develop PHP: 5.6 RC1 on Homestead
In this new post from the SitePoint PHP blog Bruno Skvorc puts out a "call to action" for the PHP developers out there to help develop and test out PHP 5.6RC1 (the current 5.6 release candidate) with...
View ArticleReddit.com: PHP devs -What are your 'must have' tools and apps?
If you're a PHP developer and are looking for some new tools to "up your game" and improve your development life, check out this new post to /r/php on Reddit.com. Developers of all kinds have shared...
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest PECL Releases for 06.24.2014
Latest PECL Releases: riak 1.2.0 Fixes issue 78: Segmentation fault with numeric key Fixes issue 80: Support lazy connection event 1.10.2 Fix: EventBufferEvent::read() accepted negative values Fix:...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 06.24.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:yajra/laravel-oci8 (v1.5.9) Oracle DB driver for Laravel 4 via OCI8 xplore/bootstripe (0.3.0) A SilverStripe theme built with Grunt and Bower, incorporating Bootstrap...
View ArticleDominic Tancredi: PHP is a dying language - A Rebuttal
In a recent post to his site Dominic Tancredi has posted some of his own opinions about the PHP language, a rebuttal to all of those who say that PHP is dying. A junior programmer with a master's...
View Article7PHP.com: A Comprehensive Interview About Slim The Micro PHP Framework
On the 7PHP.com site today Khayrattee Wassem has posted the latest in his PHP community interview series. This time it's with Josh Lockhart, creator of the Slim framework, talking about his...
View ArticleThree Devs & A Maybe Podcast: Introduction to Software Testing
The Three Devs & A Maybe podcast has released their latest episode out into the wild: Episode #30, an Introduction to Software Testing. Hosts Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains and Edd Mann...
View Articlephp[architect]: June 2014 Issue Released - Under the Surface
The php[architect] publishing group has announced the release of their June 2014 edition of their magazine: Under the Surface. The June issue is waiting for you! This month, we look at how PHP works...
View ArticleCommunity News: Recent posts from PHP Quickfix
Recent posts from the PHP Quickfix site:Modernizing Legacy PHP: From Service Locator To Dependency Injection | Paul M. Jones #servicelocator #dependencyinjection #refactor New in Symfony 2.6: Support...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 06.25.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:acelot/validation (0.2.5, 0.2.4, 0.2.2) Validation utility for PHP5 soundasleep/spritify (0.3.0) A CSS processor to generate spritesheets unclecheese/betterbuttons...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: 8 Must Have PHP Quality Assurance Tools
The SitePoint PHP blog has a new post today with what it calls the eight must- have PHP QA tools to ensure the overall quality of your codebase. These tools cover everything from unit testing out to...
View ArticleWebLessons.info: Login with LinkedIn
The WebLessons.info site has a new tutorial posted showing you how to use the LinkedIn authentication handling to allow your users to log in with their own account information. LinkedIn is a...
View ArticleReddit.com: Hack: How to open the black box of Hacklang as a PHP developer
In this recent post to Reddit, user JordanLeDoux shares some of the basics behind the Hack language (from Facebook) and making a "first jump" into it and its strong typing handling. codebase. Having...
View ArticleAcquia Blog: 5 PHP Components every Drupal 8 Developer should know: Part 1 -...
On the Acquia blog there's a new post from Kris Vanderwater, Developer Evangelist, starting off a series of "Five PHP Components Every Drupal 8 Developer Should Know". In this first post he covers...
View ArticleKonrad Podgórski: A better way to work with assets in Symfony 2
Konrad Podgórski has a recent post to his site with his suggestion of a better way to deal with assets in Symfony 2-based applications with the help of some other tools, namely NodeJS, Bower and...
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest PECL Releases for 07.01.2014
Latest PECL Releases: solr 2.0.0 - Introduced SolrServerException which handles exception responses produced by Solr Server [Feature #67063] - SolrClient::commit $maxSegments removed - Removed php curl...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 07.01.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:kohenkatz/laravel-restful (v1.0.2) Create your own REST API in Laravel. Supports JSON, JSONP, and XML output. naonaox1126/vizualizer (v1.2.9) Visual Framework in PHP...
View ArticleLoosely Coupled Podcast: Episode 6: PHPTownHall Mashup
The Loosely Coupled podcast has released their version of their collaboration show with the PHP Town Hall podcast in Episode #6, "PHPTownHall Mashup". In this episode, Matt and Jeff join forces with...
View ArticlePascal Martin: June 2014 on internals@php
Pascal Martin has posted a summary of the PHP internals mailing list discussions for the month of June. June 2014 came back down to a reasonable 493 messages on PHP's internals@ mailing-list, after a...
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