Profiling Code With Symfony Stopwatch

22 September 2017 | on symfony, php

You have probably, at some point, wanted to see how long a piece of code takes to execute. It is the most basic of profiling tasks →

Installing and Testing PHP Beta (CLI Only)

25 August 2017 | on php, php-7.2

Last week, the final Beta version of PHP 7.2 was released and next week the first Release Candidate was released. If you want to test →

Deploying with Deployer

04 August 2017 | on automation, php, deployment, deployer

For years, I have been using Deployer as my choice of tool for automated deployment of my personal projects. I like it because it is incredibly →

Autoloading With Composer

14 July 2017 | on composer, php

Namespaces are a very nice feature that allows you to organise your code so that you can encapsulate classes and libraries and avoid clashes. One of →

PHP Generators

07 July 2017 | on php

Just like PHP traits that I wrote about a couple of weeks ago, generators have been in PHP for a while (since 5.5 in fact) →