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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.

Misconceptions about ORMs

Misconceptions about ORMs

I was reading an article today ORM is an anti-pattern and it reminded me of some of the opinions I used to have about ORMs. I had used some PHP ORMs before like Doctrine and Propel and found them both to be heavy and a bit long winded for doing

Tumbleweed?

Tumbleweed?

As you may have seen in my last article I'm currently off traveling the world (well, North America for now at least) and I wanted to give people a quick update as to what is going on with various projects while that is happening. The good news is

Why Write A New Framework?

Why Write A New Framework?

So we all know that the internet is full of frameworks. They've been the popular thing for the last 5 or 6 years and it seems to have become the "barrier for entry" or the "passage of rights" that 8 or 9 years ago

PHP Format abstraction with a simple class

PHP Format abstraction with a simple class

Having a quiet night in before a long day of kayaking I thought I'd write some fun code instead of banging out the usual shit like I've been doing all day... Convert between Array, Object, JSON, XML, CSV and Serialized data and back again easily. I&

Pancake v2.0 - Invoice Clients in style

Pancake v2.0 - Invoice Clients in style

Pancake Payments is a super awesome invoicing application that lives on your server and can be made to keep with your brands look and best of all there are no monthly fees! This application is built on CodeIgniter so it is modular, themeable and really easy to extend if you

Introducing FuelPHP

Introducing FuelPHP

It's been in development for the last two months but the new PHP 5.3 framework FuelPHP is ready to see the light of day and we're just about to roll out the v1.0.0-beta1 we've just rolled out v1.0.0-beta1. Now

Using OmniAuth to make Twitter/oAuth API requests

Using OmniAuth to make Twitter/oAuth API requests

Using the brilliant user system gem Devise and a gem called OmniAuth you can make a Rails application that logs in or registers users via Twitter, Facebook, Gowalla, etc with amazing ease. But once the user is logged in, how do you go about actually interacting with the API on