Rasmus Lerdorf at PHP London 2 Aug 2013 | 04:10 pm

July's PHP London had a particularly notable speaker – Rasmus Lerdorf himself presenting what's new in PHP. So many people wanted to attend that, with limited venue capacity, a live (and recorded) vid...

PHP Test Doubles Patterns with Prophecy 23 Jul 2013 | 05:58 pm

Test doubles are a way of replacing all classes in our tests other than the one we are testing. They give us control on direct and indirect outputs that would have been generated by those classes. Und...

Speedy Sites with Apache and Mod_pagespeed 11 Jul 2013 | 06:11 pm

In the previous article on Speedy Sites, we looked at the stack and the various responsibilities of components in the stack. Now it's time to look at one specific component, the application server, an...

Calling all Ambitious Developers: Inviqa is Evolving and We Need You… 8 Jul 2013 | 04:00 pm

Dutch PHP Conference 2013 12 Jun 2013 | 03:29 pm

Amsterdam is most definitely one of those cities that everyone should visit at least once in their life and I can highly recommend the Dutch PHP Conference (DPC) as a reason to make that visit. This i...

Symfony Live London: 19th - 20th September 2013 11 Jun 2013 | 07:26 pm

Symfony Live London is back for its second year! 2012’s event inspired everyone, from the Symfony devotee to the enthusiastic learner and this year we’re back for more. Hosted by SensioLabs UK, Symfo...

Speedy Sites: Building the Stack 8 May 2013 | 06:19 pm

In the previous post about speedy sites, we discussed the static assets of a site, and how providing them to users can be optimised through selective use of aggregation and HTML. Let’s move away from ...

Functionally Testing Your Application Using Mink 2 May 2013 | 03:49 pm

Automated testing is big news these days. There's hardly a PHP conference happening without a talk on testing automation or derivative methodologies. TDD (Test-Driven Development) and BDD (Behaviour D...

Conference Report: WhiskyWeb II 29 Apr 2013 | 06:02 pm

After my great experience last year I was eager to attend the second edition of WhiskyWeb and it has to be said that the organisers (in random order, Juozas "Joe" Kaziukėnas, Michael Maclean, Max Mand...

The Hypermedia API 24 Apr 2013 | 07:52 pm

As experienced developers we're regularly told that very few API's out there are really RESTful, and sometimes we're even told why and how they could be. But what is the process of actually designing ...