Phil Sturgeon

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

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