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Category Archives: PHP
Symfony Components: Sometimes Decoupled, Sometimes Not
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
Posted in Aura, PHP, Programming
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A Response To “On php-fig and Shared Interfaces”
(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
Posted in PHP, Programming
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On Decoupling and Dependencies: Answering The Critics of Aura’s Approach
“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
Posted in Aura, PHP, Programming
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New Aura System Release, Including Aura.Framework and Aura.Demo
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
Posted in Aura, PHP, Programming
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Aura.Micro: Experimental Replacement for Silex
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
Posted in Aura, PHP, Programming
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Aura: More Decoupled Than Symfony 2 and Zend Framework 2
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
Posted in Aura, General, PHP, Programming
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How Is Aura Better Than (er, Different From ;-) Than Symfony and Zend?
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
Posted in Aura, PHP, Programming
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Aura: First 1.0.0 Stable Library Releases!
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
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
Posted in PHP, Programming
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