Phil Sturgeon

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

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

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

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

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

Composer is the best thing for PHP since sliced arrays and using it in your applications means you have easy access to a large selection of well written PHP packages that plug and play with any framework that supports PSR-0 namespacing. This is BRILLIANT as it means less reliability on