Three Devs & A Maybe Podcast: The Big Five-Zero
The Three Devs and a Maybe podcast has released their latest episode, #50! In the Big Five-Zero hosts Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains and Edd Mann talk about a wide range of topics including...
View ArticleAcquia Podcast: Meet Cal Evans ... Meet Jeffrey A. "jam" McGuire (Part 1)
The Acquia podcast has released a special episode today spotlighting a video interview with Voices of the ElePHPant host Cal Evans and Jeffrey (jam) McGuire of the Drupal community. They decided to do...
View ArticleMichelangelo van Dam: Running Apigility on Azure
Michelango van Dam has a new post on his site today walking you through the process of running Apigility on Windows Azure. Apigility is a project from Zend that makes creating and maintaining APIs...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Getting Started with FigDice
The SitePoint PHP blog has posted the second part of their series highlighting the FigDice template rendering system. In this latest article Lukas White focuses on FigDice's ability to "pull" data...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 11.22.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:keboola/json-parser (0.1.11, 0.1.10) Keboola JSON to CSV parser ytake/laravel-smarty (1.1.1, 1.2.1) smarty template engine for laravel gointegro/hateoas-bundle...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 11.23.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:maci/product-bundle (v1.1.6) Symfony MaciProductBundle maci/page-bundle (v1.1.6) Symfony MaciPageBundle maci/media-bundle (v1.1.6, v1.1.5) Symfony MaciMediaBundle...
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest PEAR Releases for 11.24.2014
Latest PEAR Releases: HTML_Template_Flexy 1.3.13 DB 1.8.1 DB 1.8.0 HTML_QuickForm 3.2.14
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 11.24.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:recoil/event-emitter (0.1.0) A coroutine-based event emitter for Recoil. believer-ufa/prettyforms (0.1.14) Helps to make a simple and easy client-server validation...
View ArticleMathias Verraes: Higher Order Programming
In his latest post Mathias Verraes looks at "higher level programming" in PHP. Higher order programming is a style of programming that uses components (like functions, modules or objects) as values....
View ArticleAnthony Ferrara: A Beginner's Guide To MVC For The Web
Anthony Ferrara has posted what he calls a beginners guide to MVC for the web, a tutorial that introduces to you the basic concepts behind the Model-View-Controller design pattern and how it should...
View ArticleLaravel News: The Artisan Files: Eric Barnes
The Laravel News site has posted their latest interview with a member of the Laravel community (their Artisan Files series). This time they talk with Eric Barnes, the person behind the Laravel...
View ArticleDejan Angelov: Experimental upgrading to Laravel 5: How I did it
In a recent post Dejan Angelov shares the process he went through to upgrade an application to Laravel 5, yet to be released (at least at the time of this post). Over the past weeks, Taylor introduced...
View Articlephp[architect]: November 2014 Issue Released - Environments
php[architect] magazine has released their latest issue today - the November 2014 edition: "Environments". In this month's issue, we take a look at the environments that PHP code may travel through....
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest PECL Releases for 11.25.2014
Latest PECL Releases: termbox 0.1.2 fix termbox_peek_event return value strict 0.3.0 fix issue in 5 series mongo 1.6.0RC2 ** Bug * [PHP-1266] - phpinfo() lists a default authentication mechanism (which...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 11.25.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:yan/site-utility-bundle (v1.9.1, v1.9.0) joselfonseca/laravel-api-tools (1.0.1) Some tools for Laravel API development, nothing really new, just wrapers and helper...
View ArticleVG Tech Blog: Using Local Packages as Composer Dependencies
On the VG Tech blog this latest post shows you how to use local packages as dependencies in your Composer-enabled applications. Composer changed pretty much everything when it comes to including...
View ArticleRob Allen: Using Phing to SSH into a Vagrant box
In a quick new post to his site Rob Allen shows you how to have Phing SSH into a Vagrant box as a part of the VM creation process. In his case, he uses it to run database migrations. Now that I've...
View ArticleAnthony Ferrara: Alternatives To MVC
Following up on his previous article talking about the MVC design pattern (and the idea of "MVC"), Anthony Ferrara has posted some alternatives to MVC for your consideration. These other options are...
View ArticleNetTuts.com: Digging in to Laravel's IoC Container
NetTuts.com has a new tutorial posted that digs into the Laravel IoC (Inversion of Control) container, one of the key features of the framework making it easy to create and use objects all around your...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Geospatial Search with SOLR and Solarium
The SitePoint PHP blog has a new post from Lukas White that gets into the details of combining SOLR searching with Solarium to perform geospatial queries. In a recent series of articles I looked in...
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