Writing code you won't hate tomorrow

Composer for busy developers

• June 8, 2013

Managing dependencies and third-party code in PHP applications is a daily challenge, keeping everyone on the same versions during development and at deploy time a struggle. Meet Composer a tool designed to help you maintain a consistent set of dependencies as well as share and discover new libraries. Let’s see how you can use this tool in your Applications and Libraries to wrangle your dependencies with a simple json configuration file and a command line interface.

The ideas of March

• March 15, 2011

• Career , PHP

This year my New Year’s resolution was to “write more” just as plain as that, blog more, write articles, maybe even a book can fit in there. Now it seems that resolution is in sync with the rest of the PHP Community and Chris Shifflet has once again caused ripples to roam the community with his Ideas of March initiative.

Annotating with Annotations

• June 5, 2012

What exactly are annotations? How can they change the way you code and make life simpler? Annotations allow you to implement new functionality into code using “notes” this allows you to easily maintain your own architecture but benefit from external tools. Let’s look at how annotations are used today in PHP and how we can develop our own solutions based on the existing libraries.