Phil Sturgeon

As programmers we should all be used to the fact that our personal preferences and habits are all subject to change. I used to be a big fan of Alman and tabs > spaces, now I follow PSR-2 happily which contradicts those two rules and couldn't care less.

Update: This initial list of tips is aimed mostly at beginners, but I expanded upon it so much I turned it into a whole book. I'm a little less shouty in that, and it is good reading for beginners, intermediates and experienced API developers alike. PHP developers are

After doing my 100 mile bike ride to raise money for autism research I've decided to step things up a gear (ha) and go further in a bid to raise more. Next I will be riding the 285 miles from Boston to New York over 3 days, with

Last month I posted about an upcoming bike century called Bike to the Beach. As lots of you were amazingly generous with sponsorship money I figured it would be rude not to post a review. The bike ride was fucking brilliant, but really hard. Apparently there was a tropical cyclone

I have always liked to bike around. I bike to the pub, bike to my friends house, bike to dates (that never worked out so well) and bike up, over and around mountains for the sake of it, but I've never done anything quite so tricky as this

The other day I posted an article about upgrading Chef and Vagrant, and the pains you can end up having by relying on third-party vagrant boxes instead of building your own with VeeWee. Getting started was initially confusing to me, as I knew VeeWee was a gem, so I just