In my previous blog post, I told you about hosting local package repositories for composer. Me, or to be honest, my colleagues, weren’t too excited about the performance gains. So I decided to dig in a bit deeper.
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Composer: create a local package repository to improve speed
When you’re developing a lot of symfony projects with a relatively large set of dependencies, sooner or later you’ll get annoyed by performance issues. By default, composer uses packagist.org to get package metadata (what versions are available and where to get them from). All packages are part of packagist.org by default, but 9 times out […]
PHP: We are getting slow and sluggish, and we’re lazy and arrogant about it.
In my most recent blog, I wrote about how I feel that too much of the world’s logic is coming onto the shoulders of PHP, these days. Today, I’m will be showing you why and how PHP’s powers could be harnessed better and more. We, as PHP web developers, should be absolutely fully aware that […]
PHP in the web development world: are we doing it all wrong?
Some thoughts and ponderings on how “the frameworks out there” might not do it just as right as they should. The UNIX principle applied? Something that is currently overlooked in a large part of the PHP community is that not all design patterns are necessarily implemented in PHP code. Your webserver can be considered the […]
Symfony2 + PHPCR + Doctrine2 + Jackalope recipe
Lately I’ve followed some developments in the Symfony2 corner of the PHP community with great interest. One of the most enticing developments is the usage of a Content Repository as a backend for your CMS. There is some work being done on the Symfony CMF, combining Symfony2, Doctrine2, PHPCR and Jackalope into a set of […]
Unit testing and Drupal; what’s wrong with this picture?
I guess the guys at Drupal.org didn’t really understand the concept of unit testing. In comparison to the Zend Framework 1.13 and Symfony 1.4 test suites, of which some tests did not pass mainly due to some configuration issues (98.6% and 99.9% respectively), Drupal had some, let’s say, surprising results. Though it reported 100% of […]
PHPUnit style dataProvider in Python unit test
PHPUnit has a handy feature with which you can provide testdata to your tests. This is called a data provider, and is implemented by annotating a test with @dataProvider methodName. Python’s unittest module doesn’t seem to have such a feature.
Introducing Spritzer: A CSS sprite generator
CSS sprites are pretty useful in web development. The general idea is you use one big image that contains all your icons and other interface-related images and use that image as a background for your HTML elements, shifting it’s position such that the right portion of the sprite is displayed. This technique is becoming more […]
About MySQL, UTF-8 and saving headaches
One of the most confusing topics ever in web development history is character sets. MySQL has a lot of features to help you with this, but when things go wrong, it can be a real pain to get it solved. Read this and fear no more.
Python: an introduction for PHP (and other) programmers
I love Python. It is clean, it simple and it evolves in a natural and healthy way. I have been working with PHP for over 10 years now, but Python stole my heart. Ahhhww 😛