PHP.net: Release of PHP 5.4.36, 5.5.20 and 5.6.4 (Includes Security Fix)
The PHP.net has announced the releases of several new versions in all of the current major series, all correcting several bugs including a CVE-related (security) related to unserialization. This...
View ArticleEfficient Chinese Search with Elasticsearch
On the SitePoint PHP blog a new tutorial has been posted showing you how to effectively search Chinese content with ElasticSearch. ElasticSearch is a "powerful open source search and analytics engine...
View ArticleDeveloper Drive: Simplify your documentation process with Couscous
On the Developer Drive site today there's a quick post introducing you to Couscous, a PHP-based documentation generation tool. Couscous translates your Markdown files into HTML output that's...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.20.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:phpbrew/phpbrew (1.18.3) PHPBrew API library alanly/picnik (v0.1) A modern, Composer and PSR-4 compatible PHP library for interfacing with the Wordnik API....
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.21.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:laracasts/testdummy (2.0.11) Easy test stubs in2pire/cli (v1.0.1) IN2PIRE CLI Framework elliotchance/concise (v1.7) Concise is test framework for using plain English...
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest PEAR Releases for 12.22.2014
Latest PEAR Releases: PHP_CodeSniffer 2.1.0 Net_DNS2 1.4.0
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.22.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:butterfly/config (1.0.2) Butterfly PHP. Configuration Component bbatsche/entrust (2.0.0-beta1) This package provides a flexible way to add Role-based Permissions to...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: No More var_dump - Introducing Symfony VarDumper!
The SitePoint PHP blog has a recent post about an addition to the Symfony framework that can make debugging (or just outputting errors) a more pleasant experience: the VarDumper component. Recently,...
View ArticleAnthony Ferrara: On PHP Version Requirements
In his latest post Anthony Ferrara talks about PHP version requirements and how it's a bit of "chicken and egg" problem. If hosting providers are slow adopting even PHP 5.4, can we realistically bump...
View ArticleCal Evans: Five influencers you should thank this year for making the PHP...
Cal Evans, PHP community member extraordinaire, has a new post sharing his suggestions of the top five influencers in the PHP community that "make it awesome" and help make it one of the best he's...
View Article/Dev/Hell Podcast: Episode 53: Let's Get This Thing Over With
The /Dev/Hell podcast has posted their latest episode with hosts Chris Hartjes and Ed Finkler: Episode 53: Let's Get This Thing Over With. Guest-less and listless, Chris and Ed slouch their way back...
View ArticleCommunity News: Latest PEAR Releases for 12.29.2014
Latest PEAR Releases: Net_URL2 2.1.1 Net_SmartIRC 1.1.5
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.29.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:deminoth/oauth2-naver (v0.1) Naver provider for league/oauth2-client p4bloch/subdivx (1.0) Download subtitles from Subdivx.com's repository easily from the command...
View ArticleSitePoint PHP Blog: 3 Ways to Implement Embeddable Custom Badges
The SitePoint PHP blog has a recent tutorial showing you how you can use one of three different ways to embed badges into your site. These "badges" are a common practice among sites allowing other...
View ArticleSymfony Blog: Symfony 2014 Year in Review: symfony.com website
The Symfony framework blog has posted their end of year review for 2014 with happenings in both the Symfony framework and community. 2014 has been the busiest year in the entire history of the Symfony...
View ArticleCommunity News: Packagist Latest Releases for 12.30.2014
Recent releases from the Packagist:apinstein/shell-command (v1.0.10) A generic wrapper for execution of shell command to make it easy to horizontally scale such work. heimonsy/sshprocess (v0.1.4)...
View ArticleAnthony Ferrara: Being A Responsible Developer
In his latest post Anthony Ferrara is back with more discussion around the "only supporting the latest versions" debate (here is the previous article). In this new post he talks about being a...
View ArticleLaravel News: 75 Laravel Tutorials, Packages, and Resources from 2014
The Laravel News site has posted their own kind of wrap-up of 2014 in this latest post sharing a monthly list of tutorials, packages and resources they've found useful for the Laravel community. 2014...
View ArticleThree Devs & A Maybe Podcast: The Christmas Episode
The latest episode of the Three Devs and a Maybe podcast, #52, is their Christmas episode (posted back on the 23rd) with hosts Michael Budd, Fraser Hart, Lewis Cains and Edd Mann talking about a wide...
View ArticleMarco Pivetta: roave/security-advisories: Composer against Security...
As Marco Pivetta has mentioned in his latest post to his site, Roave has released a tool for use with Composer that helps prevent vulnerable versions of software from even being installed (based on...
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