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Phil Sturgeon

Phil Sturgeon

Software Engineer gone ferril. Digital nomad since 2018 (bike/van). Now dedicated to woodland creation and restoration, as co-founder of UK climate chairty Protect Earth.

Heroku and PHP Sitting in a Tree. K.I.S.S.I.N.G

Heroku was - as far as I remember - the first (mainstream) PaaS on the market. It was Ruby-only but it was that symbol of modern web development at the time, with the whole "slinging code", "getting shit done", make a Git repo and start shipping

The Tale of Tom, Dick and Harry

This article describes three fictional characters as they all learn how various tools and methodologies work in the world of technology, internets and programming. Tom Tom works with some massive clients these days and has been in the industry for 10+ years, seeing various tools, frameworks and methodologies come and

Made in Production

Late last summer I was riding my bike around the mountains of New Jersey. I'm not sure if it was exhaustion, the heat or the fact that I had run out of podcasts to listen to but I had an idea: I should get into the t-shirt sale

PHP-FIG: Autoloaders, Amendments and The "15th Standard"

I've managed to get myself involved in a lot of projects in and around the PHP community because I like to offer my advice, experience and time to trying to make things better. Recently, I've been putting in lots of time for bits around the PHP-FIG.

The "Framework" is Dead, Long live the Framework

There have been a few posts over the last few months saying that the age of the framework is dead, and that Composer is the true savior, and other similar messages. This is half-true, but lots of people have been using the word "framework" differently over the years

Composer now supports PSR-4

Composer now supports PSR-4

I haven't really posted about PSR-4 here other than as a footnote in this old article, but if you follow me on Twitter or hang out on Reddit you've probably seen some news about it. PSR-4 was voted in as an "accepted" PSR by

The Tribal Framework Mindset

Twitter seems to lead to the same thing happening over and over again. 1. I say something I think is entirely uncontroversial 2. People misunderstand and jump to weird conclusions 3. Some folks start defending against that weird conclusion 4. When I try to explain why they are mistaken, people