Phil Sturgeon

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

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

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

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 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

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