SitePoint PHP Blog: Installing and Securing Jenkins
The SitePoint PHP blog has posted the first part of a new series of articles showing you how to use (and secure) Jenkins, the popular continuous integration tool, to bring more quality to your...
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest PECL Releases for 12.02.2014
Latest PECL Releases: strict 0.4.0 add strict_cast function swoole 1.7.8 - Fixed swoole_http_server::on no implementation parent class methods - Fixed cannot read cookie in swoole_http_server - Added...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.02.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:ubc/sisapi (0.0.2, 0.0.1) UBC SIS API Services guzzlehttp/ring (1.0.4) guzzlehttp/ringphp (1.0.4) middleout/mdo-zf2-bundle-eloquent (1.0.3) Middleout ZF2 Eloquent...
View ArticleJani Hartikainen: How to make your code self-documenting?
In this new post to his site Jani Hartikainen suggests a few things you can do to help make your code "self-documenting" and more readable down the line (or for other developers). Isn't it fun to find...
View ArticleRob Allen: A few Phing tips
Rob Allen has shared a few Phing tips in the latest post to his site today. Phing is a PHP-based automation tools most popularly used for the deployment and configuration of PHP applications....
View ArticleDerick Rethans: Code Coverage: The Present
Derick Rethans has posted the first in a series focusing on the Xdebug tool and the code coverage functionality it can provide via PHPUnit's testing. In this first post he catches the reader up on the...
View ArticleAnthony Ferrara: A Point On MVC And Architecture
Anthony Ferrara has posted another in his series looking at MVC as a design pattern and as an idea for building web applications. In this latest post he goes on to make a point about MVC, how it...
View ArticleVoices of the ElePHPant: It's the Booze Talking - ZendCon 2014
The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted the latest in their special conference-recorded "It's the Booze Talking" series of episodes (this time it was at ZendCon 2014). In this new episode Cal...
View ArticleHack Blog: Async - Cooperative Multitasking for Hack
On the Hack blog there's a new post talking about async, a feature in Hack that allows for code to "cooperatively multitask". This gives the language a way to keep moving on in the execution without...
View ArticleLoosely Coupled Podcast: Episode 15: Mental Health in the Tech Industry
In the latest episode of the Loosely Coupled podcast, Episode #15: Mental Health in the Tech Industry, hosts Jeff Carouth and Matt Frost talk about mental health issues, their own personal experiences...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: More Useful Jenkins Plugins for PHP Projects
The SitePoint PHP blog has posted the latest article in their Jenkins + PHP tutorial series (part four) with a look at some other useful plugins for use in your projects. In the previous articles in...
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest PECL Releases for 12.09.2014
Latest PECL Releases: ev 0.2.13 Issue #11: pecl install ev command fails with non-standard PHP installation prefix. stomp 1.0.6 - Add two new ini options stomp.default_username and...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.09.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:regulus/elemental (v0.3.3) An HTML element building composer package that simplifies creation of active, selected, or hidden elements. regulus/tetra-text (v0.4.4) A...
View ArticleVoices of the ElePHPant: Interview with Rafael Dohms
The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast has posted its latest episode in its series of community interviews. In this new episode host Cal Evans talks with Rafael Dohms, well-known PHP community speaker...
View ArticleRob Allen: Validating JSON with ZF2's ZendValidator
Rob Allen has a quick post today showing how to use the ZendValidator component from Zend Framework 2 to handle JSON validation. Let's say that you have an admin form where the user can enter JSON and...
View ArticleDerick Rethans: Parallelizing document retrieval
In his latest post Derick Rethans shows how to parallelize document retrieval from a MongoDB database via PHP. This makes it possible to speed up the read operation caused by reading each item one at...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: Using Traits in Doctrine Entities
On the SitePoint PHP blog there's a recent post showing you how to use traits with Doctrine entities. PHP's traits allow for the inclusion of functionality into a class without having to extend...
View ArticleJordi Boggiano: Composer 1.0 alpha9
In this new post to his site Jordi Boggiano talks about the tagging of the 1.0 alpha9 release of Composer and some of the updates that will be coming along with the release. I tagged Composer's...
View ArticleThree Devs & A Maybe Podcast: Episode #51: Midweek Random Rambles
The Three Devs & A Maybe podcast, hosted by Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains and Edd Mann, has posted their latest episode - Episode #51: Midweek Random Rambles. In our 51st podcast we...
View ArticleReddit.com: Composer files being indexed by Google
In an interesting thread on the /r/php subreddit on Reddit.com, a user noticed that Google is indexing Composer files that are in the document root of PHP applications. These files, like...
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