Open source spotlight: RainLoop
Meeting the people behind the most exciting homegrown OSS projects.This month, we speak to Usenko Timur about RainLoop (GitHub), a web-based email client built in PHP. WPM: Who’s behind RainLoop? Timur:…
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This month’s top events (Nov 5-30)
A handpicked selection of some of the most exciting PHP events from around the worldThe Orlando PHP Meetup Group Monthly MeetupNovember 7 // Orlando, FL, USA // Free This month’s meetup is a Coding Dojo, where…
Compile Your Style: Smarter CSS
Faced with a super-sized stylesheet, Ragnar Kurm developed a workflow for simplifying, modifying and automating his CSS. In the first instalment of this two-part guide, he explores the features of preprocessor SASS and how to optimize your selectors.Image licensed by Ingram Image Have you ever written CSS for a big website with multiple layouts and found yourself lost in…
Equality in PHPland
PHP’s humble equality operator can return some confusing results. Sharon Lee Levy digs into the Zend engine’s source code to find a solution.Image licensed by Ingram Image One of the questions posed during the Q&A period of my talk “PHP: Quirks, Gotchas & Wizardry”…
Column databases overview
Up to 100 times as fast as relational databases, column databases are the perfect choice for storing large, unchanging datasets.In an earlier column, I reviewed some of the basic types of DBMS engines. Well, in this ever-expanding, rapidly changing field of…
Talks and the power of human interaction
For all the wonders of digital media, let’s not forget the importance of speaking in person, writes frequent conference-goer Stefan Priebsch.The room was already filled with people, even if not all of the seats were taken yet. The conference speaker was setting…
Introducing the Symfony2 Content Management Framework
An official sub-project of Symfony2, the CMF isn’t “yet another CMS” but a powerful modular collection of libraries and bundles.When starting a new web project, you have to decide whether it is a CMS project or an application. This is a…
Selling stuff Symfony-style with Sylius
Though only seven months old, this new ecommerce framework has gathered a massive following already thanks to its modular architecture and modern development processes – and its use of Symfony2.Image licensed by Ingram Image Soon after the Internet became a mass medium, many systems developed in order to seize new opportunities….
Branching out with Twig
Separate your application’s logic from its views with the flexible template engine from the creator of Symfony©iStockphoto.com/cultury Stand up if you’ve never used the amazing PHP construct include and/or require to assemble the layout of a website… I…
Advanced MySQL Query Tuning
A closer look at query optimization with a focus on queries with GROUP BY and ORDER BY, from Percona consultant Alexander Rubin.In this article we will talk about query optimization with the focus on the queries with GROUP BY and ORDER BY. We…
This month’s top events (October 1 – November 4)
A handpicked selection of some of the most exciting PHP events from around the world.AWS SDK for PHPOctober 3 // Bellingham, WA, US // Free Following a bite to eat at Westside Pizza, AWS evangelist Jeremy…
Open source spotlight: Kint
Meeting the people behind the most exciting homegrown OSS projects.This month, we speak to Rokas Šleinius about Kint, a drop-in replacement for PHP’s native debugging functions. WPM: Who’s behind Kint? Šleinius:…
