Recent Posts
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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....
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...