PHP Dependency Management with Composer
Maybe you've experienced the pain of working on a PHP application which uses third-party libraries and then trying to keep them and their dependencies up to date. If so, Composer can soothe your pain....
View ArticleGetting Started with Fuel CMS, Part 1
When you hear the abbreviation CMS, you probably think about Drupal, Joomla, and even WordPress. However, there are alternatives to those heavy hitters if you want something more lightweight or...
View ArticleGetting Started with Fuel CMS, Part 2
Continuing to look at Fuel CMS, a lightweight and flexible alternative to heavier-platforms, this part of the series focuses on models and walks you through creating a simple Guestbook to introduce...
View ArticleWhat’s New in Laravel 4
The Laravel developers have been hard at work contributing some major improvements to the framework. Testability isn’t a problem any more, and neither is decoupling. Laravel 4 very well may be one of...
View ArticleA First Look at React
For the past couple of years, Node.js has been drawing increasing amounts of attention as a promising web technology. While it has some strengths, like being event driven, some people just want to...
View ArticlePhalconPHP: Yet Another PHP Framework?
From full-stack frameworks to micro frameworks, there's a wide offering of PHP frameworks to choose from. And they all claim to be special, too. But Phalcon really is quite different compared to the...
View ArticleUsing cURL for Remote Requests
If you need to make remote requests from your PHP scripts, cURL is a great tool for the job, and the PHP extension offers the same functionality as the console utility but in the comfortable world of...
View ArticleTime Complexity of Algorithms
If you are a web developer or a programmer in general, you have most likely written algorithms for various tasks. Examples are: searching through a table, sorting an array of numbers by descending...
View ArticleFractal: a Practical Walkthrough
If you ever developed for an API, you might have had troubles with changes of your database schema. If you didn’t happen to have a good implementation, you had to rework your whole model when changing...
View ArticlePersonal Packagist with Toran Proxy
Most of you reading this already know Composer. For those who don’t, you can read a previous article of mine before contuing. We can all agree that Composer has brought many good things into the PHP...
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