Phil Sturgeon

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As a techie I write about pragmatic API design & development, systems architecture, and am increasingly trying to use tech and the tech community to help unf**k the planet.

The Importance of Serializing API Output

The Importance of Serializing API Output

I've given the API Pain Points talk a bazillion times over the last year. In just 2015 I gave it at: * Lone Star PHP * OpenWest * ConFoo One section that seems to get a lot of feedback and questions is when I talk about serialization, which I refer to

PHP 7 Feature Freeze

Today was the feature freeze for PHP 7. That means no new votes can be started for a feature that is aimed at PHP 7.0, and would instead have to go into PHP 7.1. Instead of heading out to St Patrick's Day with a bunch of

PHP Void: Much Ado About Nothing

Recently Return Types were accepted for PHP 7, which makes me very happy. This RFC was a real work of art. Levi Morrison sidestepped various political land-mines, which had stopped previous attempts at this feature being approved since it was agreed return types should be added in 2005. * We keep

Dredd: Do Your HTTP API Justice

Dredd: Do Your HTTP API Justice

Update 2021-02-08: Old post is old! I really don't recommend messing with Dredd anymore, it was a handy stepping stone on the way to contract testing with API descriptions but these days using OpenAPI v3.x and using those descriptions to power contract testing in your existing test

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,

The State of Markdown

The answer to "What is the State of Markdown?" is "Yes, it's a f**king state." Markdown has been around for a long time, since John Gruber released it in 2004. Since then everyone and their dog has come up with extensions, some of

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