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PHP 5: Active Support Ends. Now what?
Active support for PHP 5 has ended. What does this mean for you?
PHP 7 Explained
We are happy to announce that our eBook "PHP 7 Explained" is finally available for purchase.
ConFoo: Combining Tech like PHP and Node.js
ConFoo is a polyglot conference that showcases the power of combining diverse technologies [...]
Typed Arrays in PHP
As a community, we can only make progress when somebody pushes the boundaries. This can be done by questioning established best practices, or by coming up with new ideas.
Questioning PHPUnit Best Practices
Best practices are not set in stone and need to be questioned and then adapted, if need be, every once in a while.
Seventh Heaven
It all started with with somebody who wrote some software to put his résumé online, and decided to share the code he had written [...]
Professional Object-Oriented Development
We offer a two-day training event on February 22-23 2016 in Montréal where attendees will learn how to successfully develop business logic in a decoupled, tested and extensible way [...]
How to Validate Data
Validating data seems to be one of the most important tasks of an application. After all, you cannot trust data from external sources [...]
On Hackathons
Hackathons are fun and very educational. But do they teach the right values? [...]
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