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• PHP Date Rules Utility

  March 13, 2015

  Just threw up a small toolkit (ManDate) for working with date rules. It even lets you write rules which take into account sunrise and sunset....

• PHP7 and Symfony Performance

  March 12, 2015

  I missed the talk but these slides – PHP by Rasmus Lerdorf – inspired me to take a look for myself. So I thought I’d...

• PHP / Symfony Checker

  March 10, 2015

  Before I commit changes to my PHP / Symfony projects, I like to pre-check it against a few utilities to ensure quality and consistency. This...

• Blackfire, PHP Profiling by SensioLabs

  March 10, 2015

  Blackfire is a new service by SensioLabs. It’s a web based utility to help benchmark your PHP applications. I’ve just sat down to give it...

• Understanding awesome passwords

  May 23, 2014

  Everyone knows that long random passwords are best, but how random, how long and what about practicality? A bad password Let’s start with an example...

• Stalking Steve Jobs

  May 01, 2014

  An audiophile writeup on Wired caught my attention: We Pieced Together Steve Jobs’ Long-Lost Stereo System. It gives a run down of the music related...

• PHP, Symfony, OSX – Oh my!

  June 04, 2013

  Sitting down this morning to update my Brew managed PHP install on OSX – I’d planned to document the process. Justin Hileman had already put...

• Getting Cozy With Dependency Injection

  March 28, 2013

  I’ve just posted a brief introduction to Dependency Injection over on the Cross Media blog. See article here: Getting Cozy With Dependency Injection. You can...

• Symfony Live

  February 07, 2013

  Very keen to make it to Symfony Live Portland this year. This time it will be running next to DrupalCon Portland and WebVisions. It’s sure...

• Symfony Components for Drupal

  February 07, 2013

  I’ve been lucky enough to be invited to give a talk at DrupalCon Sydney about Symfony Components. So here are the slides and some extended...