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Here, you'll find articles to help you improve your web development skills, regardless of whether you're building them with PHP or Go, or need to grow your DevOps skills.
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Relearning C
Tue, Feb 16, 2016

Relearning C

There’s lots of languages you can learn, from PHP and Python, to Erlang and Clojure, but last week I decided to get back to learning C. Yep C.

Mon, Dec 14, 2015

Aggregate Hydrators for Sophisticated Object Hydration

Often times object hydration isn’t a simple matter, and requires a more nuanced, more sophisticated solution than the out-of-the-box options, available in Zend Framework, provide. Today we showcase one such solution - the Aggregate Hydrator.

Mon, Nov 30, 2015

Abstract Factories for Rapid Development

Zend Expressive, like the Zend Skeleton project before it, is a great platform for building robust, maintainable, highly scalable applications. But it’s generally not the platform you’d think of for rapidly application development. However one little technique can change all that. Today, let’s learn that technique and begin changing your perception.

Thu, Nov 26, 2015

Reflections on Being Part of the PHP Community

Despite being developing with PHP since a chance encounter in 1999, I’ve only recently gotten myself involved in the community. So here’s a reflection on what’s changed since getting involved.

Mon, Nov 16, 2015

How to Enable Form View Helpers in Zend Expressive

Zend Expressive is a great foundation on which to build an application, especially if you want to keep it small and lean. But out of the box, form view helpers aren’t available. Here’s how to make them available.

Mon, Nov 9, 2015

Introduction to Zend Expressive (Part 2)

Over the last number of months the Zend Framework team’s been hard at work on Zend Framework 3. And there are major changes afoot. In this 2-part series, we look at one of the core components - Zend Expressive.


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