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PHP Apps and Platform as a Service
Recently, I saw a tweet from @JuanTremino about moving a website out to AppFog. So first things first, thanks to Juan for the inspiration for this post. I have been meaning spend a little time...
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Intro to PHP Comments and Docblocks
This week’s post could be titled: ”things I wish I would have done right on day one” . The subject is how to properly document code with PHP comments and docblocks. This one took a while for me to...
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Managing PHP Application Builds with Phing
One of the things I have been focusing on lately is trying to to a better job of mechanizing and automating the process of building and deploying an application. The reason for this is pretty simple:...
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Lithium: Building Views Using Layouts
The last time I wrote about the Lithium framework, the focus was on getting information out of a MySQL database. Once you have that information, in many cases you will want to show it to the user....
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Closures, Lambdas, and Anonymous Functions
Beginning with PHP 5.3, the anonymous function, became available to developers as a means of improving flexibility and increasing the number of tools at our fingertips to build powerful PHP...
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Rock On, Refactor, or Re-roll?
I would imagine that at one time or another, every PHP developer comes to the fork in the road that I have just hit. Last summer, I started working on a large enterprise application for my company,...
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Overloading: Create PHP Class Methods on the Fly
What is overloading and what would I need it for? Well, how many times have you built an application and needed to retrieve data from the database in a multitude of different ways. Sometimes you will...
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Book Review: The Grumpy Programmer’s PHPUnit Cookbook
Recently, I picked up a copy of “The Grumpy Programmer’s Guide To Building Testable PHP Applications” by Chris Hartjes (@grmpyprogrammer) because I really wanted to get deeper into understanding the...
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Using Stackato for PHP Applications in a Private PaaS
I like new shiny things. I think this is a full blown addiction at this point, and thanks to a lot of great people and companies in and around the PHP community, test driving the latest and greatest...
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Functional Testing to Improve Quality Assurance (part 2)
In the first post about functional testing, we went through the basics of what functional testing is and how it complements and differs from other types of testing used for software quality assurance....
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