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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 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

PSR-2 vs CodeSniffer PSR-2: A Success Story

I've had static analysis tools running in Sublime Text for a long time, but for most of that time I have had CodeSniffer and it's PSR-2 rules disabled. I couldn't for the life of me remember why I had done that, until I turned

WTF is T_PAAMAYIM_NEKUDOTAYIM

Anyone who has mentioned PHP Fractal of Bad Design to me knows I don't give it much credit. It's a list of complaints about loose-typing in general, some "it's not Python" rants, lots of complaints about bugs that have been fixed, suggestions

Named Parameters in PHP

Named Parameters in PHP

Update 06/09/2013: I had initially offered to put together an RFC draft updating the original rather dire efforts at documenting PHP's lack of interest for named parameters. A more objective RFC has now been put together by Nikita Popov so I can ditch my notes. Wonderful.

Potential Variadic Function Syntax for PHP 5.6

Potential Variadic Function Syntax for PHP 5.6

An awesome RFC popped up the other day: Syntax for variadic functions, developed by Nikita Popov. I read through it and I loved it, but I did have to Google to see what the hell a variadic function was. This is what happens when you teach yourself how to code.