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HTTP/2 2015 Retrospective

Back in December 2014 I did some experimenting with the then unfinished version of the HTTP/2 protocol with the H2O web server. I managed to the the server up and running with the built in PHP server to serve some HTTP/…


Commerce and content go together

Since it's inception commerce on the internet has been a perfect fit. The technology allows both window shopping and an easy route to the actual purchase. eCommerce has been around for quite a while, and not just with d…


PHP 7 released and Symfony 4 announced

Today is an exciting day for PHP developers as PHP 7.0.0 is unleashed and we've got some news on the future of Symfony. PHP 7 is the single most significant release of the popular open source programming language poweri…



So Long and Thanks for All the Fish, Symfony2

Symfony 2.8 has just been released. It marks the end of the road for the Symfony 2.x series active development and further improvements will be done in the 3.x series from now on. Version 2.8 is an LTS (Long Term Sup…


Install and run PHP 7 on Raspbian (Raspberry Pi Debian)

PHP 7 was made available on December 3rd 2015. It offers great improvements in performance and memory use, which are even more significant in resource limited environments like the Raspberry Pi. Together with MySQL 5.7 …