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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.

Why do some PHP Developers ❤️ Static APIs?

Why do some PHP Developers ❤️ Static APIs?

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

5 Things CodeIgniter Cannot Do (without a rewrite)

5 Things CodeIgniter Cannot Do (without a rewrite)

Now that PHP 5.2 is gone from my life entirely I am a happy man. As I don't use PHP 5.2 anymore I no longer need a 5.2 framework, so I quit the CodeIgniter team and started focusing on my new job. Kapture is all

Why some people hate PHP

Why some people hate PHP

This is a repost of my answer to the Quora question: Do a large majority of people hate PHP solely because other people do so? There are a lot of reasons people "hate" PHP, or at least look down on it. Some of them are founded, some are

Distributed Architecture Faking with Vagrant

Distributed Architecture Faking with Vagrant

Working at Kapture I've been charged with something I've never really had to do before: Managing a big-ass architecture of different servers that all handle different tasks. Theoretically I've always known how it works, and I've worked in projects that have had

Cloud Hosting for PHP: The Eternal Pipe Dream

Cloud Hosting for PHP: The Eternal Pipe Dream

I posted an article at the start of the year called 2012: The year of PHP cloud hosting. Well, not really. Sure there are two months left in the year, maybe the problems will get fixed? Before I go onto explain the problems, what is all this fuss about PaaS

Package Watch: Image Management

Package Watch: Image Management

Sorry if I sound like a broken record, but packages are f**king brilliant. I've mentioned before that packages are the future of PHP and plenty of other developers are thinking the same thing. For years I was locked into using the same frameworks for everything, mainly because

Moving On

Moving On

My entire career seems to have come from being a CodeIgniter developer, and a vocal one at that. Since then I have risen up through the ranks of CodeIgniter developers to be active in maintaining it, but with my new job I just don't need to be on