Tooling Articles and Tutorials


How To Use Forked Repositories In Composer
April 20, 2016

How To Use Forked Repositories In Composer

How well do you really know Composer? Do you just know composer install, update, and require, and some of the composer.json configuration? Or do you really know it? Here, in the third part of the Composer series, we’ll see how to use forked repositories, instead of the canonical sources.

How To Automate Projects Using Composer Scripts
April 6, 2016

How To Automate Projects Using Composer Scripts

How well do you really know Composer? Do you just know composer install, update, and require, and some of the composer.json configuration? Or do you really know it? Here, in the second part of the Composer series, we’ll look at the scripts section of composer.json.

How To Refactor Code With PhpStorm
April 25, 2016

How To Refactor Code With PhpStorm

Refactoring code is an essential aspect of building and maintaining software. In this tutorial I will show you how to use PhpStorm’s refactoring functionality to make it as easy as possible.