I love APIs, but I honestly hate having to deal with signing, auth, and curl inside my controllers or services, which means I end up wrapping all of that into something that provides easy access in my controllers. I also love Meetup.com since it really makes managing User Groups pretty cool, even with some...
Read more →Note: This article was originally published on the october/2011 issue of php-architect. If you like it keep a close eye on the Community Column in the magazine, where I get the chance to write alongside other awesome community people. Vacuums are a very interesting part of physics. From the latin vacuum means “empty”, basically describing...
Read more →We are all awaiting the day when all of us can get TravisCI Pro and get all of that testing goodness into our private repositories right? And by that I mean, having our PRs annotated with build status, running automated tests and such. Well, there is a work around to it, if you use...
Read more →Note: This article was originally published on the april/2012 issue of php-architect. If you like it subscribe to the magazine and keep a close eye on the Community Column in the magazine, where I get the chance to write alongside other awesome community people. There is a lot more to being part of this great...
Read more →When you look around at user groups you will notice that many groups have “leaders” or “managers”, this is usually the person who started the group and is not really calling the shots, but usually is giving direction to the group. This is an usual model and it works pretty well in most cases,...
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