The fastest way to start developing in PHP7?
Friday, Jan 15th 2016Getting started with PHP 7.x is easier than you might think, thanks to Vagrant and those lovely guys over at Laravel
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Creating monsters with closures
Wednesday, Jan 6th 2016Have you ever thought about building a new object instance using methods from other object instances?
Earth Day 2015
Friday, Apr 17th 2015Wednesday, 22nd April 2015 is Earth Day. I'm donating all of my royalties to Amazon Watch on this day. Aye, all of them.
PHP7 usage now included
Sunday, Apr 12th 2015New edition now available featuring additional PHP7 usage content
Autoloading specific files with Composer
Thursday, Apr 9th 2015Sometimes you just want Composer to autoload a specific file for you when you need to bootstrap your application. Here's how.
Password handling: A primer
Wednesday, Apr 8th 2015I'm still seeing MD5() and SHA1() being recommended for hashing passwords online. So I thought a primer might help shed some light on a better way to do it.
password_hash(): Stop salting your passwords!
Thursday, Apr 2nd 2015You should be allowing the password_hash() function to create dynamic salts for you. Here's how and why.
April 6th: The next content drop
Tuesday, Mar 31st 2015As previously mentioned in my first release, I'm roughly following a two-week sprint pattern for releasing the content of my leanpub book, PHP Brilliance.
Passwords. Are you doing it right?
Monday, Mar 30th 2015With Mashable reporting this week that Uber logins can be bought online for $1 it's high time to check how you handle passwords in your PHP app.
PHP7: A gotcha in waiting?
Saturday, Mar 28th 2015PHP7's promises to revolutionise the way we handle type hinting, but does the proposal for return type hinting go far enough?
Inheritance is not for code reuse
Thursday, Mar 26th 2015It's one of my bugbears but as PHP developers, we've been doing it for ages. Using inheritance as a mechanism for code reuse.
The book is out!
Friday, Mar 20th 2015Friday, 20th March 2015 was the day that I finally got to press "publish" on leanpub.com, making "PHP Brilliance: Stepping up from Senior" available to the public at large.
Autoloading with composer
Wednesday, Mar 18th 2015This is just a brief look into how you can autoload your own code with the awesome composer autoloader
