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To master the Zend Framework 2 we need to understand its core concepts. In this series, we work through four of the core ones, starting with Dependency Injection. Join me today to get started learning all about DI.

As developers, we can believe errors are negative reflections on our applications. But are they really so? In today's post, I show you how they're anything but negative, they're actually very very positive, when interpreted correctly.

When you're working with HTML day in and day out, very often the same types of tasks come up repeatedly. Whether you're generating content to be displayed with PHP or jQuery, whether it's server or client side, it's not an easy task. You Need a Helping Hand!

When you're a freelancer, actually, when you're an organisation of any size, ts and cs (terms and conditions - yes those seemingly boring things that nobody reads), especially custom prepared ones, are absolutely essential. Find out why.

If you have a list of people and want to find only the people with a date of birth in a set year or greater, there's nothing easier than a FilterIterator. Find out how today.

What is a Professional PHP Freelancer? It's a tough question, but deserves asking. Today we have a series of questions to help you determine if you are.

There are a lot of ways to traverse data in PHP, including while, do while, for and foreach loops. These are fine in a lot of cases. But what if you want to reuse looping logic or have somewhat complex logic? Enter the FilterIterator.

Whether you're a casual freelance php developer or running a professional freelance business, you'll know just how much work can be involved. Not only do you have applications to design, develop and support. But you've also got business functions such as marketing, advertising, finances and networking as well. In this post we show you a tool to massively reduce your workload - FreeAgent.

So many of us are great technically, but find the prospect of running a freelance business anything from difficult to down right scary. So we're aiming for Malt Blue to become a key resource for Starting, Building and Growing a Successful PHP Freelance Business.

Whether it’s The Cloud, Mobile Development, HTML5, iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Search, Big Data, Queuing or more, we know there’s a wealth of possibility of what we can do. But we then seem to combine that with a misplaced, seemingly schizophrenic, need to be able to do it all and then not ship it until it’s perfect Today we discuss the Ship-It! attitude