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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.

Build your own Vagrant Boxes with VeeWee

Build your own Vagrant Boxes with VeeWee

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

Testing and Contributing with Composer Packages

Testing and Contributing with Composer Packages

While Composer has been around for a while now, many packages are still in their infancy (< 1.0) or sometimes are just not as feature filled as they could be. To be fair there is always more to be done. It can always do more, or do the same

Is PSR-0 Shortsighted, or are you?

Is PSR-0 Shortsighted, or are you?

One of the fun things about trying to support the PHP-FIG and all the good its doing, is seeing blog posts written complaining about it by people that just don't know what they're talking about. I get involved in conversations on Reddit (dangerous I know) on

PSR-2: The Tough Decision

PSR-2: The Tough Decision

PSR-2 has been out for a while now, and even though developers from member projects (such as Joomla, Drupal, phpBB, CakePHP, Symfony and Zend) got together and took part in a entirely fair vote to decide if tabs or spaces should be involved, it soon became apparent that the group

Pick PHP Requirements for Packages Responsibly

Pick PHP Requirements for Packages Responsibly

I recently tweeted something which seems to have confused a lot of people: If you release PHP packages that require PHP 5.4 _JUST_ because you want to use short array syntax, then I hope your pet gets run over. — Phil Sturgeon (@philsturgeon) March 23, 2013 Now, don't

Catapult into PyroCMS

Catapult into PyroCMS

It's been a little while in the making, but my first book is out: Catapult into PyroCMS. This is being released as an eBook only at this point, but who knows what the future might hold. This is not just a rewritten user guide, it's an

PHP 6: Pissing in the Wind

PHP 6: Pissing in the Wind

Update 12/12/2014: This ended up getting to #1 on Google for "PHP 6" so I thought it was important to give an update. The article hoped to outline one way in which we could solve one of the most commonly mentioned issues of the PHP language.