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Preview-release of (my) “php-mvc” project (a simple php mvc barebone)

Voila! The very first pre-final release of the “php-mvc” repository is online: https://github.com/panique/php-mvc and http://www.php-mvc.net. It’s a very simple but very 

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First look on Gitter, the chat for GitHub

GitHub has definitly become the #1 platform for git-based public repositories on the planet, no question. The site offers excellent 

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HipHop, Modern PHP
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HipHop VM reaches 100% green Unit Tests in Laravel, Drupal, Slim, CodeIgniter etc.

In September 2013 the PHP HipHop VM dev team wrote a very interesting article [1] about failing Unit Tests of 

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SensioLabs, creator of Symfony and Silex PHP frameworks, gets $7 million capital

The company behind the two popular PHP frameworks Symfony and Silex just raised 7 million dollars to “expand their open-source 

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Microsoft’s Azure platform gives away high money prizes for “testing out” their cloud services

Disclaimer: DEV METAL does not get any money etc. for saying this, there is no affiliate link, no deal with 

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Interesting talk on modernizing a legacy PHP codebase

Bringing oldschool PHP applications into 2014 is a big thing, especially when your app is valueable for your client. Paul 

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Composer, PHP
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A short & simple Composer tutorial

In this little Composer tutorial we’ll walk through the absolute basics of Composer, the PHP dependency management tool. Composer has 

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How to install Composer on Windows 7 / 8 or Ubuntu

Installation on Windows 7 / 8 Installing Composer on Windows 7 or 8 is extremely easy: Get the latest version 

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DigitalOcean VPS coupon codes for december 2013 and early 2014

Some (working!) coupon codes for DigitalOcean, the low-cost VPS server/hosting provider of the year. They are for NEW customers, but 

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Must-read PHP blog: PHPweekly.com

Probably one of the best ressources for your weekly doze of news from the PHP scene: phpweekly.com simply publishes a 

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How Instagram.com works

MINI2, an extremely simple barebone PHP application on top of Slim

For my daily work I often needed to setup super-simple PHP applications, just some more or less static pages plus

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Vote for “Hack” for HipHop/HHMV support (future style PHP) in PHPStorm 8

“Hack” will come. And “Hack” will change PHP, definitly. In case you never heard of it, have a look into

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[Link] Set up Nginx with PHP 5.5 easily

As there are surprisingly no good tutorials on how to set up NGINX with PHP 5.5 properly, here’s an excellent

How major web companies (and banks) handle passwords quite wrong

There’s a very interesting “movement” in password handling going on for a long time, the basic idea is to encourage

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How blind people use websites (video with Sina Bahram, blind accessibility researcher)

162 million people worldwide are blind or visually impaired at a level that does not allow to read texts. An

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The first micro framework written in Hack is there: hack-mvc !

It has been just a few months ago Hack has been first announced, but some awesome people have already developed

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php-login goes #2 PHP script worldwide in BitDeli stats

Holy! I just checked the stats of my little php-login hobby project on BitDeli (the tracking service for GitHub) and

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Slides & talks from PHP UK Conference 2014

The slides of most of PHP UK CONFERENCE 2014‘s talks are online, very interesting stuff, have a look. And a

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The Times talks about Times New Roman (3min video)

A sweet little video, made by The Times, about Times New Roman. No real information here, but nice to look.

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How JavaScript really works – An introduction into the JavaScript call stack by Philip Roberts (20min video)
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When PHPStorm’s cache eats up your harddisk space
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Get Github’s code colors in PHPStorm (2014 style)
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Laracon 2013 – Kapil Verma: Engineering Complex Applications with Laravel 4 (40min video)
MINI2, an extremely simple barebone PHP application on top of Slim
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New features in SASS 3.3 (a talk by SASS-creator Chris Eppstein)
Frontend Ops Conf 2014 – Rebooting Flickr On A Node.js Stack, One Page At A Time (from PHP) by Bertrand Fan
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