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Developer Fallacies of 2014

Some people like to take a quick walk down memory lane in January, and post their highlights of the previous year. Last year (2014) was defined for me by a) visa drama and b) stupid arguments. Seeing as I've already covered the visa drama and the eventual resolution,

Should you commit your Composer lock file?

Should you commit your Composer lock file?

Davey Shafik wrote a great article for EngineYard called Composer: It’s All About the Lock File. The point of his article is to try and suggest people get a lot more used to committing their composer.lock files. Please, do go read his article now and for the love

PHP Wars: Attack of the Clones

In the last article I said I wanted to write about when its a good idea to release a component. A lot of this comes down to: is there one out there that does what I want, and if so, can I use it? This blog post is going to

What is The League of Extraordinary Packages?

This is the story of group of friends, who decided to write some code, but somehow confused and angered everyone with a keyboard. tl:dr; "Waaaaah why doesn't everyone like usssss..." That said, the long-form might entertain anyone who is curious about The League. It has

The Neverending Muppet Debate of PHP 6 v PHP 7

Update 12/12/2014: The answer is now of course PHP 7. There are a few major, important conversations happening in the PHP internals mailing list as we speak: * The Facebook lot heading up a specification based off of PHP 5.6 * Should phpng be moved into master to be

Heroku and PHP Sitting in a Tree. K.I.S.S.I.N.G

Heroku was - as far as I remember - the first (mainstream) PaaS on the market. It was Ruby-only but it was that symbol of modern web development at the time, with the whole "slinging code", "getting shit done", make a Git repo and start shipping

PHP-FIG: Autoloaders, Amendments and The "15th Standard"

I've managed to get myself involved in a lot of projects in and around the PHP community because I like to offer my advice, experience and time to trying to make things better. Recently, I've been putting in lots of time for bits around the PHP-FIG.