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Much has been written about the renaissance of PHP. In most cases this is talked about by techies for techies. This tends to lead the discussion to the advances in technology. But technology is secondary to people and t…
When launching a new site, it is commonly believed that Google places the site in a sandbox for a period after first indexing. During this period the site is indexed, but does not rank well in search results. This is…
In November 2014 the last versions of eZ Publish were released (5.4 and 2014.11). This is the last version of the fully featured Open Source Content Management System, whose code base dates back to 2002. From this versi…
The Symfony Framework is promoted as a complete HMVC web application framework written in PHP. In practice most applications are built with MySQL using Doctrine or Propel ORM (Object Relational Mapper). It's easy to ass…
A brief introduction to three contemporary topics in the PHP world: Puli, a package management tool for PHP Deployer - deployment tool Executing the Slim Framework in Async (with ReactPHP) Puli: Int…
There is plenty of buzz around the web development community about web components. There are standards polyfill implementations and custom approaches such as Facebook's React and Flux combo. While there is no shortage o…