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The pyramid of cluelessness 23 Aug 2013 | 01:00 pm
I met this developer employed by a big company, he seems to be happily sitting at his desk watching time pass by. Enjoying what David Graeber recently described as a Bullshit Job. Cashing in big bucks...
Composer: Installing require-dev by default 11 Jul 2013 | 01:18 pm
Jeremy Kendall started a small twitter shitstorm last night by asking why Composer's install command now installs the require-dev dependencies by default. Indeed until a few months ago the only way to...
Composer: an update on require-dev 4 Mar 2013 | 02:00 pm
Using require-dev in Composer you can declare the dependencies you need for development/testing. It works in most simple cases, but when the dev dependencies overlap with the regular ones, it can get ...
One logger to rule them all 20 Dec 2012 | 11:10 pm
I called the vote on the Logger Interface proposal last week. When the vote ends next week it will become PSR-3 (since it already collected a majority). The fourth recommendation from the PHP-FIG grou...
Writing games for fun 14 Dec 2012 | 12:30 am
GitHub organized a Game Off - or a game competition - back in November. The contest ran for a month and its only limitations were that the game runs in a browser and relate somewhat to forking/cloning...
Encouraging contributions with the Easy Pick label 16 Nov 2012 | 06:00 pm
One of the barriers to convert users into contributors in an open-source projects is that many people have no idea where to start. They are usually scared to take on large tasks because they are not c...
I'm going nomad - introducing Nelmio 24 Apr 2011 | 05:05 am
After almost three years working at Liip, I have finally decided to take the plunge and start my own business. Together with Pierre Spring, in early May we will start building up Nelmio. Why? To keep...
I'm going nomad - introducing Nelmio 23 Apr 2011 | 10:05 pm
After almost three years working at Liip, I have finally decided to take the plunge and start my own business. Together with Pierre Spring, in early May we will start building up Nelmio. Why? To keep...
Terminal (Bash) arguments tricks 14 Apr 2011 | 05:50 am
Reading David DeSandro's last post on how to store strings in variables in terminal, or any bash-y shell (I'd say any unix shell but I'm sure there is a weird one out there that does things differentl...
Terminal (Bash) arguments tricks 14 Apr 2011 | 01:50 am
Reading David DeSandro's last post on how to store strings in variables in terminal, or any bash-y shell (I'd say any unix shell but I'm sure there is a weird one out there that does things differentl...
