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Symfony Components: Sometimes Decoupled, Sometimes Not

Posted on Wed, 02 Jan, 2013 by pmjones

Previously, on decoupling and dependencies, I said: “Some [Symfony] commenters were dissatsifed with my use of unit testing requirements to discover what a package really depends on, as opposed to what its composer.json file states.” I’m willing to allow that … Continue reading →

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A Response To “On php-fig and Shared Interfaces”

Posted on Thu, 20 Dec, 2012 by pmjones

(This is a response to Matthew Weier O’Phinney. Full disclosure: MWOP is both my friend and respected peer. Also, like MWOP, I am a voting member of PHP-FIG, and was directly involved in the recent LoggerInterface discussion among that group.) … Continue reading →

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On Decoupling and Dependencies: Answering The Critics of Aura’s Approach

Posted on Thu, 20 Dec, 2012 by pmjones

“There are no solutions … only trade-offs.” — Thomas Sowell tl;dr: “As a library author it’s tempting to bring in dependencies for various reasons, but as a library user it’s frequently convenient to not have cascading dependency sets. … If … Continue reading →

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New Aura System Release, Including Aura.Framework and Aura.Demo

Posted on Tue, 18 Dec, 2012 by pmjones

Late last night we released version 1.0.0-beta4 of the full-stack system, which composes all the independent Aura packages into a coherent framework using the Aura.Framework package in a project skeleton. We have extracted the “hello world” portions into their own … Continue reading →

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Aura.Micro: Experimental Replacement for Silex

Posted on Thu, 13 Dec, 2012 by pmjones

Stan Lemon writes on the Aura Project for PHP 5.4+ blog about an experiment he’s trying: I was recently working on a small project that used Silex. As I browsed my vendor folder, I realized how much extra “stuff” I … Continue reading →

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Aura: More Decoupled Than Symfony 2 and Zend Framework 2

Posted on Tue, 11 Dec, 2012 by pmjones

The guys at PHPMagazin have posted a followup question about the Aura Project for PHP. Here is our original English conversation. I’d like to follow up on the last point where we talked about other frameworks. I think that the … Continue reading →

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How Is Aura Better Than (er, Different From ;-) Than Symfony and Zend?

Posted on Thu, 06 Dec, 2012 by pmjones

I did an email interview with the folks at PHP Magazin; their German version is here. What follows is our original email exchange in English. First of all, congratulations for releasing Aura 1.0! Thanks! Most of the packages are at … Continue reading →

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Aura: First 1.0.0 Stable Library Releases!

Posted on Thu, 29 Nov, 2012 by pmjones

The Aura Project for PHP 5.4 is happy to announce its first release of 1.0.0 stable library packages. The packages include: Aura.Autoload Aura.Cli Aura.Di Aura.Http Aura.Marshal Aura.Router Aura.Signal Aura.Sql Aura.Uri Aura.View Aura.Web In addition, we have initial beta releases of … Continue reading →

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Regarding “Simply” and “Just” In Documentation

Posted on Wed, 28 Nov, 2012 by pmjones

When reading documentation, manuals, narratives, instructions, tutorials, and the like, I frequently see phrases like: “If you want to do X, simply …” and then several steps of instructions. Or, “In order to do Z, just do this, that and … Continue reading →

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It Was Like That When I Got Here: Steps Toward Modernizing a Legacy Codebase

Posted on Tue, 21 Aug, 2012 by pmjones
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