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Using Composer in an Existing Project 19 Aug 2013 | 03:23 pm
I've got an application (okay, scratty PHP script) which glues together some API things and shows them onto a dashboard for me. Recently, I updated it to use Guzzle as the consuming client, since twit...
Tips for Addressing a Virtual Audience 8 Aug 2013 | 01:11 pm
As a conference speaker, I've read the books on how to be a good conference speaker, and coached quite a few people to raise their skills in this area too. However recently I've been meeting more virt...
Using Charles To Debug PHP SOAP 22 Jul 2013 | 12:32 pm
I used this trick to solve a particularly sticky problem last week, so I thought I'd share. I had a 3rd party SOAP service (except it was actually a .NET WCF service, which is almost SOAP but not quit...
PSR-What? 16 Jul 2013 | 02:06 pm
There's been some cool things happening in the PHP world over the last few years, but with the least helpful names ever ... yes, those PSR-somethings which all do totally different things (apart from ...
Twitter Search API Using PHP and Guzzle 11 Jul 2013 | 02:56 pm
In case you missed it, Twitter updated their APIs recently, so that you have to authenticate to use even their search APIs to return publicly-available results. This is an increasing trend for API pro...
Ttytter: Command Line Twitter Tweaks 4 Jul 2013 | 08:22 pm
I've been using ttytter for quite a while, it's a superbly inoffensive twitter client - and it's console-based. This makes it easy to use from the keyboard, fast, and also makes it look a bit less lik...
DC4D 6: Not-Programming for Programmers 25 Jun 2013 | 02:41 pm
In case you haven't seen the news, the next episode of Day Camp 4 Developers is coming up on Friday 26th July. This edition is about getting beyond being awesome at the code, which we know that you ar...
Are Subqueries RESTful? 13 Jun 2013 | 02:27 pm
Twitter is great for one-liners, but it's very difficult to carry on any kind of advanced conversation there. Therefore when I saw this tweet yesterday, I knew I'd be picking a different medium to rep...
PHP Version Adoption 4 Jun 2013 | 02:17 pm
PHP runs over 75% of all websites whose technologies are known (source: w3techs), which makes for a really REALLY long tail of users who once installed wordpress, phpmyadmin, or some other open source...
Simplest PHP Generator Example 22 May 2013 | 11:30 pm
I really like the generators feature that's arriving in PHP 5.5, and since we're now into release candidate releases, it's actually not that far away. I've been speaking on this topic and I thought I'...
