• Filtering objects using annotations

    by  • August 11, 2011 • 2 Comments

    Tweet Filtering with Annotations PHP does not have native Annotations support, however many projects have been using doc blocks to add value and semantics to code, like PHPUnit, Doctrine and Symfony. The Doctrine did a really good job in making available a Annotation parser kit, which allows you to bring the power of annotations...

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    PHP Development in the Cloud by Ivo Jansch and Vito Chin

    by  • August 5, 2011 • 2 Comments

    Tweet Cloud computing is finally reaching a point of maturity and leaving its early “hype” years behind. Ivo and Vito do a very good job of bringing the topic into a PHP developer’s world in a very concise and objective manner, without leaving important platforms and concepts behind. From the top the book sets...

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    php|tek 2011 and what’s trending

    by  • June 1, 2011 • 1 Comment

    Tweet Another edition of php|tek has come and gone and this year some very amazing topics came into view. The conference itself was once again a great experience, great people, incredible speakers, lots of activities and incredible hack-a-thons and unconference sessions. Cloud computing is reaching a level of maturity in the technology market as...

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    Debugging PHPUnit Tests in NetBeans with XDebug

    by  • May 13, 2011 • 4 Comments

    Tweet Every now and then you run into this weird situation in your code, where something that was supposed to zig is now zagging and it makes no sense whatsoever. For me this ends up happening in my unit tests since i’m not running everything in the browser everytime and since my tests usually...

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    Book Review: Being Geek by Michael Lopp

    by  • March 24, 2011 • 0 Comments

    Tweet I was very pleased with Being Geek, the author – Michael Lopp – does a great job of taking us on a tour of the geek’s perspective on life and career. The idea behind the book is to reflect on your career, as it is now and what you want it to be,...

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