NetTuts.com: Laravel, BDD And You: Let's Get Started
On NetTuts.com they've kicked off a new series of tutorials teaching you about Laravel development but using the principles and testing of behavior-driven development (BDD). In this first part of the...
View ArticlePhil Sturgeon: What is The League of Extraordinary Packages?
In his latest post Phil Sturgeon talks about a project that's been running for a while, the The League of Extraordinary Packages and aims to clear up some recent misconceptions about the group and...
View ArticleQafoo Blog: Utilize Dynamic Dispatch
On the Qafoo blog today Tobias Schlitt talks about dynamic dispatch, what he calls a "fundamental concept of OOP" to help provide clean, clear interfaces in the code. I want to use this blog post to...
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Unit Testing Succinctly: Why Unit Test?
NetTuts.com has kicked off a new series of posts today that answers the question "Why unit test?" The series, Unit Testing Succinctly aims to define what unit testing is, approaches to implementing...
View ArticleSite News: Popular Posts for the Week of 10.17.2014
Popular posts from PHPDeveloper.org for the past week:/Dev/Hell Podcast: Episode 51: Strange Loops for Serial Killers Site News: Popular Posts for the Week of 10.10.2014 NetTuts.com: Laravel, BDD And...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 10.17.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:ydle/hub-bundle (0.5.47) Ydle Main Bundle ydle/settings-bundle (0.5.10) Ydle Settings Bundle ydle/room-bundle (0.5.9) Ydle Room Bundle...
View ArticleAcquia Blog: The Future of PHP is Shared Power Tools
On the Acquia blog there's a recent post from Ryan Weaver from KnpLabs, well known for his contributions to the Symfony2 framework. In his post he suggests that the future of PHP is "shared power...
View ArticlePHP.net: PHP 5.4.34 & 5.6.2 Released
On the main PHP.net site an announcement has been posted about the release of the two latest versions in the PHP 5.4.x and 5.6.x series - PHP 5.4.34 and 5.6.2 These releases fix several bugs in both...
View ArticleAnthony Ferrara: A Followup To An Open Letter To PHP-FIG
Based on some of the responses to his previous open letter to the PHP-FIG (Framework Interoperability Group), Anthony Ferrara has posted a follow-up explaining some of his points made and the caching...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: How to use RabbitMQ with PHP
The SitePoint PHP blog has published a new tutorial today by Miguel Ibarra Romero introducing you to the RabbitMQ queuing tool and shows you how to use it in PHP-based applications via the php-amqplib...
View ArticlePHP Town Hall: Episode 31: The One About Hot Dogs
The PHP Town Hall podcast has released their latest episode today: Episode #31, The One About Hot Dogs with hosts (and PHP community members) Phil Sturgeon and Ben Edmunds. They also feature guests...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 10.18.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:mefworks/string-interpolation (v1.0.0) Interpolate strings by replacing placeholders with data from an array. estey/formbuilder (v4.2.1, v4.2, v4.1.12, v4.1.1,...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 10.19.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:dreamfactory/package-installer (1.4.2) DreamFactory Services Platform(tm) Package Installer dreamfactory/php-utils (1.0.2, 1.0.1) A library of helper classes for PHP...
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest PEAR Releases for 10.20.2014
Latest PEAR Releases: Net_URL2 2.0.11 PHP_CodeSniffer 2.0.0RC3
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 10.20.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:youg0717/ameblo (1.2.2, v1.2.1, v1.2) Ameblo Library version/version (2.0.1, 2.0.0) A library for creating, editing, and comparing semantic versioning numbers....
View ArticleRob Allen: Setting up PHP & MySQL on OS X Yosemite
Rob Allen has posted a quick guide to help you get PHP and MySQL set up on Yosemite, the latest version of Apple's OSX operating system (just released last week). t's that time again; Apple has...
View ArticleJoshua Thijssen: Deepdive into the symfony2 security component: part 1
On the latest post on his site Joshua Thijssen has kicked off a series taking a deep dive into the Symfony security component, a key piece in the security of Symfony-based applications. In this first...
View ArticleLaravel Podcast: Episode 18 - Laravel 5 Routing, the War over PHP...
The Laravel Podcast has released their latest episode, Episode #18: Laravel 5 Routing, the War over PHP Annotations, and The Secret Weapon(tm). Join hosts Shawn McCool, Taylor Otwell and Jeffrey Way...
View ArticleQandidate.com Blog: Using the Accept Header to version your API
On the Qandidate.com blog today there's a new tutorial talking about the use of the Accept header in REST HTTP requests and, more specifically, working with it in a Symfony-based application. I...
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Design Patterns: The Facade Pattern
NetTuts.com has continued their series covering common design patterns and their implementation in some example PHP scripts today. In their latest post they focus on the Facade pattern, a member of...
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