Phil Sturgeon

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

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

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

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

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

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