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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.

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

Understanding Circumstance

Understanding Circumstance

I have been working for years in this industry and I have never needed to do what you do. Therefore your opinion is obviously wrong. Unless... What is it you do as a developer? As I see it in web dev there are a few different types: * Hobbiest * Client Web

PHP: Ecosystem Update

PHP: Ecosystem Update

Don't worry guys, this isn't another PHP apologist or PHP hater blog. We've all had enough of those recently. This is a quick heads up on two projects that are doing what they can to make the PHP ecosystem a better place. Framework Interoperability

Laravel is Awesome

Laravel is Awesome

You might not expect to hear that from a CodeIgniter and FuelPHP developer, but it's true. Taylor has done a brilliant job writing code that is clean, functional and has built a huge community of smart developers in less than a year of active development. People are flooding