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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.
There are also articles about creating technical content too.

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.

Why I Created the Free the Geek Website By Hand
Sun, Nov 8, 2015

Why I Created the Free the Geek Website By Hand

With so many existing solutions for creating websites, why would you create one by hand? This post looks at the reasons why I chose to create the site by hand, versus using an established platform, such as Sculpin or Wordpress

Mon, Nov 2, 2015

Introduction to Zend Expressive

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.

Thu, Oct 22, 2015

Why a Commitment to Continuous Deployment Pays Off

Recently, I was asked to build an application with a rapid turnaround time and modest budget. Being the sole developer, here’s the approach I took to make the development process as simple and efficient as possible

Mon, Oct 19, 2015

How to Test Zend Framework Applications with Codeception

Testing is essential for creating reliable software. Whether you’re writing a small application for your local club or an application to back your startup, it needs test coverage to ensure it works properly. In this series, I show you how to test Zend Framework 2 applications using the comprehensive testing framework - Codeception.


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