Made in Production
Late last summer I was riding my bike around the mountains of New Jersey. I'm not sure if it was exhaustion, the heat or the fact that I had run out of podcasts to listen to but I had an idea: I should get into the t-shirt sale
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.
The "Framework" is Dead, Long live the Framework
There have been a few posts over the last few months saying that the age of the framework is dead, and that Composer is the true savior, and other similar messages. This is half-true, but lots of people have been using the word "framework" differently over the years
Composer now supports PSR-4
I haven't really posted about PSR-4 here other than as a footnote in this old article, but if you follow me on Twitter or hang out on Reddit you've probably seen some news about it.
PSR-4 was voted in as an "accepted" PSR by
PHP API's: Fractal of GOOD Design
Recently I started a new blog series called "Build API's That You Wont Hate", starting off with Part 1 - Useful Database Seeding. It was meant to be a fleshed out series based off of my experiences over the last several years building nontrivial RESTful API&
Benchmarking Codswallop: NodeJS v PHP
Sometimes people link me to articles and ask for my opinions. This one was a real doozy.
@reactphp @philsturgeon NodeJS owns PHP on website scraping ? http://t.co/zpWQBx3zvY
— GDmac (@GDmac) November 10, 2013
Oh goody, a framework versus language post. Let's try and chew through this probable
Build API's That You Wont Hate: Part 1 - Useful Database Seeding
A little while back I produced an article called Building a Decent API which was mostly a tongue-in-cheek list of things that I'd come across in other APIs that pissed me off, or that I had done myself and used my super-power of hindsight combined with sarcasm to