Logo
  • PHP
    • HipHop / HHVM
    • Modern PHP
    • PHPStorm
    • LAMP
    • Laravel
    • Composer
    • PDO
  • JavaScript
    • node.js
    • AngularJS
  • CSS
    • SASS
    • “CSS4” (CSS level 4)
  • HTML
  • Git
  • LAMP
  • Vagrant
  • UI / UX
  • Architecture of …
  • Off-Topic
With ♥ from Berlin

Chris

PHP
Comments Off on Bézier Curves – Under the Hood (4min video)

Bézier Curves – Under the Hood (4min video)

Take a peek under the hood to see how computers draw cubic Bézier curves, as used in design and motion 

CSS, Featured, HTML5
Comments Off on Joshua Davis – my hero of Flash – in two excellent interviews (audio, video)

Joshua Davis – my hero of Flash – in two excellent interviews (audio, video)

Joshua Davis is the reason why I’ve started to code. Seriously. Back in the late 90ies, the internet was a 

phpstorm-github-code-color-syntax-theme
Local Development, PHP, PHPStorm, UI / UX
Comments Off on Get Github’s code colors in PHPStorm (2014 style)

Get Github’s code colors in PHPStorm (2014 style)

I really love the colors on GitHub’s code previews but couldn’t find any themes that copy that in a beautiful 

php
PHP
Comments Off on A super-simple introduction into PHP namespaces (7min video)

A super-simple introduction into PHP namespaces (7min video)

Once again, Jesse of JREAM totally nails it right on the head. A super-simple introduction into PHP namespaces. If you 

CSS, Fonts, HTML5, Local Development, Typography
Comments Off on Adobe releases Firebug-like developer tools to edit and extract PSDs

Adobe releases Firebug-like developer tools to edit and extract PSDs

A big step in frontend-development: According to this presentation on Adobe Max 2014 Adobe has just released a very interesting 

phpstorm-8
PHPStorm
Comments Off on When PHPStorm’s cache eats up your harddisk space

When PHPStorm’s cache eats up your harddisk space

I recently stumbled over this: By default PHPStorm (obviously in all versions since 1.0) creates a local history of all 

The architecture of ...
Comments Off on How Instagram.com works

How Instagram.com works

php
LAMP, PHP
Comments Off on How to setup / install PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

How to setup / install PHP 5.6 on Ubuntu 14.04 LTS

Ubuntu 14.04 LTS ships with PHP 5.5 by default, but if you want to use PHP 5.6, then it’s just 

Laravel, Modern PHP, PHP, Refactoring
Comments Off on Support FLARUM, the future of PHP forum scripts (with some dollars on Kickstarter)

Support FLARUM, the future of PHP forum scripts (with some dollars on Kickstarter)

PHP forum scripts are horrible, let’s face it. Nearly everything that’s available is hard to install, hard to handle, hard 

CSS, Fonts, How do THEY do it ?, HTML5, JavaScript, Refactoring, Running a company, The architecture of ...
Comments Off on [Link] Improving Smashing Magazine’s Performance: A Case Study

[Link] Improving Smashing Magazine’s Performance: A Case Study

The title says it all: A very interesting guide through the optimization process on one of the largest blogs in 

Load More Posts
NO MORE POSTS
compress-png

Compress png, jpeg, gif and svg up to 90% with Compressor.io

What a fantastic tool: Compressor.io is a totally free service that let you compress png, jpeg, gif or svg files

phpstorm-8

PHPStorm 8 has just been released

The excellent PHP IDE PHPStorm just had a major release these days: Version 8 is out, coming with latest PHP

digitalocean coupon

Free $10 coupon for DigitalOcean SSD cloud VPS hosting

DigitalOcean puts out another coupon, this time for free $10 with the code SSD2014. The company offers small and big

Useful basic linux stuff: Show kernel version, distribution name and distribution version on Ubuntu systems

Always nice to know: Show kernel version: uname -r Show kernel version and CPU: uname -a Show distribution version: lsb_release

composer

The difference between “composer install” and “composer update” – nailed on the head

What a beautiful, direct and clean explaination of the often-confusing difference between composer install and composer update: Beau Simensen (Twitter,

ilovepreloaders – A tumblr collection of preloader animations

An excellent collection of preloaders (GIFs, Movies and real ready-to-copy&paste code) here in this wonderful blog: http://ilovepreloaders.tumblr.com/ This thing just

This is an experimental advertisement

The blogosphere is full of annoying flash banners, GoogleAds and questionable product placements. So… let’s try out something new. :)

hack-php

Facebook releases HipHop (HHVM) 3.0, adds mysqli and support for Hack language

Lots of movement in the PHP world these days! After releasing Hack (a dramatically improved fork of the entire PHP

hiphop php

PHP’s HipHop outperforms PHP 5.5 with Zend OPCache and Nginx by 15-20 times

A very interesting benchmark on www.alexfu.it shows excellent comparisons of plain PHP on Nginx (PHP 5.3 I think) PHP on

The architecture of StackOverflow

One of the most interesting talks these weeks, and a rare insight into one of the most active pages on

1/4

Categories

Search

css3-chrome-font
[Link] Retinafy your Site / Device by Nijiko Yonskai
Stressed and unrelaxed while coding ? Try some ultra-deeply-relaxing ASMR audio clips. It will change your life. Seriously.
php uk conference
PHP Opcache Explained by Julien Pauli (video from PHP UK Conference 2014)
twig
A 6min video introduction into Twig, the PHP templating engine
composer
Composer problems ? Try full reset !
phpstorm-8
A PHPStorm shortcuts cheat sheet (for Windows, Mac OS and Linux)
anti block adblock
Show ads to ad-blockering visitors – with PageFair.com
(Links) How to fix an extremely slow Symfony inside a Vagrant box
php
Awesome list of Design Patterns with PHP code examples
steam sale coupon voucher
-30% to -90% on Steam and Origin
Rare Steve Jobs AND Bill Gates video interview from 2007’s D5 conference (90min)
vagrant
How to setup a (or multiple) server/LAMP-stack inside a virtual machine for local development with Vagrant and PuPHPet
Experimenting with HHVM at Etsy (Link)
mod-rewrite-ubuntu-14-04-lts
EOL lists of Ubuntu, Debian and CentOS for your server plannings
ubuntu-14.04-lts
First view: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS brings PHP 5.5 and Apache 2.4

Tags

apache bash centos composer conference coupon CSS debian fonts framework git GitHub hack HHVM HipHop HTML HTML5 IDE JavaScript JS LAMP laravel linux mod_rewrite MVC MySQL Nginx optimization PHP PHP 5.5 PHP 5.6 phpmyadmin PHPStorm security server SSD Ubuntu UI UX vagrant video virtual machine voucher VPS wordpress
Side-Project: Wordle-Solver:
www.wordle-helper.info

Pages

  • Privacy Policy