Phil Sturgeon

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

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

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.

The world today has a lot of hot topics that need to be discussed. Washington needs to get together to help sort out the debt-ceiling to stop the US economy going down the drain, but the Democrats and the Republicans just cannot even vaguely get the conversation going because they

Octopress is a great little CMS for hackers and it works on GitHub pages for free hosting, so a few PHP developers have been known to use it to smash together a basic site even thought it's using Ruby; Boo, hiss, etc. One site I've built

There are two kinds of PHP developers. Those who absolutely love static methods because they are easy to work with and those who think they are spawned by satan to test our devotion to proper programming practises. This article is not intended to explain why statics are ok, I instead