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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.

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

PHP API's: Fractal of GOOD Design

Recently I started a new blog series called "Build API's That You Wont Hate", starting off with Part 1 - Useful Database Seeding. It was meant to be a fleshed out series based off of my experiences over the last several years building nontrivial RESTful API&

Benchmarking Codswallop: NodeJS v PHP

Sometimes people link me to articles and ask for my opinions. This one was a real doozy. @reactphp @philsturgeon NodeJS owns PHP on website scraping ? http://t.co/zpWQBx3zvY — GDmac (@GDmac) November 10, 2013 Oh goody, a framework versus language post. Let's try and chew through this probable

Build API's That You Wont Hate: Part 1 - Useful Database Seeding

A little while back I produced an article called Building a Decent API which was mostly a tongue-in-cheek list of things that I'd come across in other APIs that pissed me off, or that I had done myself and used my super-power of hindsight combined with sarcasm to