Programming

2024-01-15: Front-Interop: Interoperable Front Controller Interfaces
2023-10-10: PHP-Styler 0.13.0 Released
2023-09-19: PHP-Styler 0.5.0 Released
2023-08-16: Teller: Money for Legacy Applications in PHP
2023-08-14: Introducing PHP-Styler
2023-07-03: Qiq Tags and PHP Tokens
2023-05-25: AutoShell 1.0 Released
2023-04-10: Qiq Templates 2.0 Released
2023-04-06: The "pds/composer-script-names" standard is now stable!
2023-01-03: PDS "composer-script-names" standard now in public review
2022-12-09: Contra Noback on Application Services
2022-09-23: In-Template Response Building
2022-01-01: Capsule DI and Argument Inheritance
2021-11-09: Sapien: Request/Response Objects for PHP 8.1
2021-10-20: Qiq Templates for PHP 8
2021-09-13: Capsule 3: Clean, Concise, Composable Dependency Injection
2021-08-25: AutoRoute 2.0.0 Released, With Value Object Support
2021-07-27: AutoRoute is 3x Faster Than FastRoute
2021-03-06: Why Each Programmer Thinks He Is The Best
2021-03-02: DDD, Authentication, and Credential Exchange
2020-12-06: Application and Domain Service Naming Conventions
2020-10-27: Argo: Keep Your Content Cancel-Resistant
2020-10-20: Rob Pike's Rules of Programming
2020-06-02: What Is Good Code?
2020-02-10: Payload-Interop 1.0.0 Released
2020-01-01: Payload-Interop Public Review Period
2019-12-11: Atlas, PostgreSQL, and RETURNING
2019-12-09: Controllers are Services
2019-12-05: Controllers are not Services
2019-10-17: Teams do not accomplish anything of genuine intellectual value
2019-09-25: Speaking at Bulgaria PHP 2019
2019-09-20: Speaking at EEConf 2019
2019-02-04: Immutable Objects for PHP
2018-12-19: Clarifications to a review of Action Domain Responder
2018-12-11: Open Source and Squeegee Men
2018-09-26: What to Do About The Linux COC
2018-09-21: Social Justice Attack Survival Guide
2018-07-31: Atlas ORM Integration with Symfony
2018-07-10: Atlas.Orm 3.0 ("Cassini") Now Stable
2018-05-22: Atlas.Query: Simple. Sensible. SQL.
2018-05-09: Atlas 3.x ("Cassini") and PHPStorm Completion
2018-04-23: Atlas.Orm "Cassini" (v3) Early-Access Alpha Release
2018-04-09: The Conquest Code of Conduct
2018-02-13: Line Coverage in Unit Tests
2018-02-07: Atlas 2.1.0 Released with "Polymorphic Association" Support
2018-02-06: Perfection
2018-01-31: Best Practices
2018-01-02: Considering Typehints As Communication
2017-12-28: Solving The "Widget Problem" In ADR
2017-12-05: Avoid Dependency Injection
2017-10-17: Choose Dependency Injection — If You Can
2017-10-17: Atlas.Orm 2.0 Is Now Stable
2017-10-10: A Few Right Ways, But Infinitely More Wrong Ways
2017-10-03: Atlas.Orm 2.0.0-beta1 Released
2017-09-26: Quality: Program vs Product
2017-09-19: "Before" (not "Beyond") Design Patterns
2017-09-12: A "Systems" Addendum To Semantic Versioning
2017-09-05: Hacking, Refactoring, Rewriting, and Technical Debt
2017-08-29: How Terrible Code Gets Written By Perfectly Sane People
2017-08-28: Original MVC Resources from Reenskaug
2017-08-22: Slim and Action-Domain-Responder
2017-08-18: Why MVC doesn't fit the web
2017-08-15: The "Micro" Framework As "User Interface" Framework
2017-07-18: Domain Logic and Email Templates
2017-05-23: Controllers and Domain Exceptions
2017-05-16: "Action Injection" As A Code Smell
2017-05-02: Toward A Better Separation of Session Behaviors in PHP
2017-04-25: "A False Sense of Simplicity"
2017-04-18: Atlas ORM 1.2.0 Released
2017-04-11: Symfony 4: Directory Structure, and Common Practices
2017-04-04: Command-Line Output: Consider Logging Over Streams
2017-03-24: Regarding A Recent Event
2017-02-21: WikiMedia, Clean Architecture, and ADR
2017-02-01: Radar Project Skeleton Now Stable
2017-01-31: The "pds/skeleton" Standard Is Now Stable!
2017-01-17: How Many PSR-7 Implementations Exist?
2017-01-12: Beta2 of pds/skeleton now available!
2017-01-05: PSR-7 vs. the Server(Request|Response) RFC
2017-01-03: RFC: ServerRequest and ServerResponse
2016-12-29: PDS "skeleton" Standard Now In Beta
2016-12-28: ADR with HTTP Caching
2016-12-22: Efficient use of mysqli_result::$num_rows
2016-12-21: PHP-PDS: Interview on Voices of the ElePHPant
2016-12-20: PECL Request Extension: Beta 1 Released!
2016-12-15: Package Development Standards: "pds/skeleton" Now Open For Review!
2016-12-12: The Iron Law of (Open Source) Bureaucracy
2016-12-07: PHP file_get_contents() HTTPS/SSL error on Mac OS
2016-12-05: Independent Packages and Subtree Splits
2016-11-30: PHP ssh2.sftp opendir/readdir fix
2016-11-29: Conserving On The Wrong Resource
2016-11-22: The PHP 7 "Request" Extension
2016-09-06: Avoiding Quasi-Immutable Objects in PHP
2016-09-02: The Fallacies of Enterprise Computing
2016-08-18: FIG Follies, Part 3
2016-08-16: Fig Follies, Part 2
2016-08-15: FIG Follies, Part 1
2016-08-09: Exporting Globals in PHP
2016-07-18: Professional Development Ladder
2016-05-31: Telegraph: A Lambda-Style PSR-7 Middleware Dispatcher
2016-04-26: Multi-Project Issue Tracking With Producer
2016-04-19: Producer 2.0.0 Released!
2016-04-16: Empirical Research On Software-Engineering Myths
2016-04-12: PSR-7 and Session Cookies
2016-03-22: Producer: Validate and Release PHP Library Packages
2016-03-15: Why Do PHP Developers Think MVC Is An Application Architecture?
2016-03-08: Command Bus and Action-Domain-Responder
2016-02-29: An Object Lesson in Conduct Enforcement
2016-01-25: You Do Not Have A Right To Contribute
2016-01-19: On the Proposed PHP Code of Conduct
2015-12-29: Atlas: a persistence-model data mapper
2015-12-13: How Do You See The PHP-FIG?
2015-12-08: Configuration Values Are Dependencies, Too
2015-12-01: First Stable Aura 3.x Releases
2015-11-30: 50% Off "Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP"
2015-11-02: SQL Schema Naming Conventions
2015-11-02: How To Think About HTTP Middleware
2015-08-18: Frameworks Are Not Tools
2015-08-09: Service Classes, Payloads, and Responders
2015-07-07: A Factory Should Create, Not Retain
2015-06-30: Modernizing Serialized PHP Objects with class_alias()
2015-06-23: MLAPHP Boot Camp!
2015-06-08: Relay: A PSR-7 Middleware Dispatcher
2015-06-02: Semantic Versioning and Public Interfaces
2015-05-26: Radar: Answering Questions, and New Middleware
2015-05-19: Radar: A PSR-7 Action-Domain-Responder Framework
2015-04-21: A PSR-7 Web Router Implementation, and Bookdown Documentation
2015-03-31: Separate The User Interface Repository From The Core Application Repository
2015-03-27: Aura 3 Plans
2015-03-23: Using Aura.Html with League\Plates
2015-03-20: MLAPHP and N+1 Books: Half-Price Sale Starts Early!
2015-03-18: A New Book About The N+1 Problem, and an Update to MLAPHP
2015-03-02: Bookdown: DocBook-Like HTML Output From Markdown
2015-01-21: MVC and ADR are User-Interface Patterns, Not Application Architectures
2014-10-11: This is why you should always use braces on conditionals
2014-10-09: What's The Difference Between A "Pivot Table" And An "Association Table"?
2014-10-06: What's The Difference Between Tightly-, Loosely-, and De-Coupled ?
2014-10-05: First Aura 2.0 Stable Project Releases!
2014-09-30: Action-Domain-Responder and the "Domain Payload" Pattern
2014-09-03: New Aura v2 Stable Releases, and More
2014-08-19: On Project Structure; or, The Framework/App Is Not Special
2014-08-16: DRY is about Knowledge
2014-07-17: Soccer, Development, and The Value Of Teamwork
2014-07-17: Action-Domain-Responder, Content Negotiation, and Routers
2014-06-26: An Updated Preview Of Aura.Auth
2014-06-23: Modernizing Legacy PHP: From Service Locator To Dependency Injection
2014-06-19: The Cause Of Bad Software Is Bad Management
2014-06-09: Aura.SqlQuery 2.0.0 Stable Release
2014-06-05: Refactoring To Action-Domain-Responder
2014-06-03: Legacy Refactor Question: What About Singletons?
2014-06-02: A Round Of Aura 1.x Library Releases
2014-05-29: Aura.View 2.0.0-beta2 Now Has "Sections"
2014-05-26: The Template Is Not The View
2014-05-22: "The Only Reason You Think You Are Smart Is Because An Idiot Called You A Genius"
2014-05-21: 5 Years Of PHP-FIG
2014-05-19: Stephan Hochdörfer and Action-Domain-Responder
2014-05-16: The Eternal Struggle Between Business and Programmers
2014-05-15: Aura.View and Aura.Html 2.0.0-beta1 Released!
2014-05-12: Quick Hits: ADR Pattern Progress, MLAPHP Softcover, Aura Notices
2014-05-05: Action-Domain-Responder: A Tentative MVC Refinement
2014-04-29: Some Rules For Good Naming
2014-04-21: Submit To The Central Scrutinizer
2014-04-17: First Aura v2 Beta Releases of Web_Project, Cli_Project, and Framework_Project
2014-04-14: How To Modernize Your Legacy PHP Application
2014-04-07: Composer-Assisted Two-Stage Configuration in Aura
2014-03-31: "Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP" Update: Schedule, and Reviews
2014-03-11: How To Convert Include Files To Classes
2014-03-05: Laravel Keeps Using That Word -- I Do Not Think It Means What They Think It Means
2014-03-05: Modernizing Legacy APIs
2014-02-24: Leanpub Sample Files With Symfony and Aura
2014-02-17: Aura.Marshal, A Database-less non-ORM
2014-02-11: What Application Layer Does A DI Container Belong In?
2014-02-03: "Page Script" As A Degenerate Controller
2014-01-31: Composer: Undefined Method Related To Global Install
2014-01-28: Honest Estimates
2014-01-27: Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP: Early Access
2014-01-21: Framework Tradeoffs For Beginners: Product Creation vs Program Maintenance
2014-01-13: Aura.Cli 2.0.0-beta1 Released
2014-01-13: The Aura.Cli Package
2014-01-10: Aura.Sql_Schema 2.0.0-beta1 Released
2014-01-09: Aura.Web 2.0.0-beta1 Released
2014-01-09: Frameworks Are Good, Components Are Awesome!
2014-01-08: Aura.Router 2.0.0-beta1 Released
2014-01-07: Aura.Sql_Query 2.0.0-beta1 Released
2014-01-06: Aura Version 2 Beta Releases: Includer, Autoload, Sql, Dispatcher
2014-01-03: First PSR-4 Autoloader Released: Aura.Autoload 2.0.0-beta1
2013-12-30: Passing the Benchmarking Torch After 7 Years
2013-12-23: Which is Lighter, Silex or Aura.Web_Project?
2013-12-17: Quicker, Easier, More Seductive: Names, Usage, and Intent
2013-12-16: Quicker, Easier, More Seductive: How To Tell A DI Container From A Service Locator
2013-12-12: Lighter than Silex, and Slimmer than Slim: Aura.Web_Project, the Micro/Macro Framework
2013-12-09: Book Announcement: Modernizing Legacy Applications in PHP
2013-12-04: Splitting The Blog
2013-12-03: PSR-4 "Autoloader" Has Passed
2013-12-02: Quicker, Easier, More Seductive: The Difference Between Factories, Registries, and Service Locators
2013-11-25: Quicker, Easier, More Seductive: Restraining Your Service Locators
2013-11-21: ServiceLocator is like the Dark Side: Quicker, Easier, More Seductive
2013-11-18: A Peek At Aura v2 -- Aura.Router
2013-11-15: If you respect a [developer], you talk about the [code]; if not, you psychoanalyze the [developer].
2013-11-11: A Peek At Aura v2: Aura.Web
2013-11-04: A Peek At Aura v2: Aura.Dispatcher
2013-11-03: Recording Live Tonight With @dev_hell
2013-10-28: Publish Your Failures; or, The Way Of All Frameworks
2013-10-21: A Peek At Aura v2: Aura.Sql and ExtendedPdo
2013-10-18: Quality, Features, and Schedule
2013-10-14: If you inject a container into your class, you are using Service Locator, not Dependency Injection
2013-09-30: Aura for PHP: Lessons Learned, and Looking Ahead
2013-09-18: Aura Framework: Stable 1.0.0 System Release
2013-09-17: Aura Has New Releases: Input, Sql, and View
2013-09-17: The Devil's Dictionary for Developers
2013-09-11: All Aura Libraries Now Stable!
2013-08-17: CoderFaire Nashville 2013 Keynote: "All You Jokers"
2013-05-09: Aura: New Site, New Logo, New Releases
2013-03-27: Let's Just Build A Generic System!
2013-03-25: 20 Rules of Software Consulting
2013-02-13: For CSRF tokens, mt_rand() is ok-ish but openssl_random_pseudo_bytes() is a lot better
2013-01-30: Professional Sports, Or Programmers And Public Speaking?
2013-01-07: "Planning" and "Doing" In Software Development: A Lesson For Product Managers
2013-01-07: Efficiency vs Quality in Software Development
2013-01-02: Symfony Components: Sometimes Decoupled, Sometimes Not
2012-12-20: A Response To "On php-fig and Shared Interfaces"
2012-12-20: On Decoupling and Dependencies: Answering The Critics of Aura's Approach
2012-12-18: New Aura System Release, Including Aura.Framework and Aura.Demo
2012-12-13: Aura.Micro: Experimental Replacement for Silex
2012-12-11: Aura: More Decoupled Than Symfony 2 and Zend Framework 2
2012-12-06: How Is Aura Better Than (er, Different From ;-) Than Symfony and Zend?
2012-12-01: Decoupled Libraries for PHP 5.4+ (The Aura Project)
2012-11-29: Aura: First 1.0.0 Stable Library Releases!
2012-11-28: Regarding "Simply" and "Just" In Documentation
2012-08-21: It Was Like That When I Got Here: Steps Toward Modernizing a Legacy Codebase
2012-08-10: Software Runs the World: How Scared Should We Be That So Much of It Is So Bad?
2012-08-07: The dark craft of engineering management
2012-07-04: When Possible, Use File *Resources* Instead Of File *Names*
2012-06-30: Lone Star PHP Keynote Slides Posted
2012-06-18: Aura.Router can also be used as a micro-framework dispatcher!
2012-06-07: tl;dr of DI vs SL
2012-06-04: PHP-FIG: PSR 1 and 2 Accepted
2012-05-01: FIG, FUD & FOMO
2012-04-12: Memcached Folks Say "Don't Use Memcached For Sessions"
2012-03-30: This Job Is Better Than The One You Have Now
2012-03-25: Complex Systems and Normal Accidents
2012-03-19: Interview Tip: Avoid Mentioning PHP Frameworks
2012-03-18: W3C Notes One Of My Posts As An "Informational Resource"
2012-03-16: phpDocumentor2 === DocBlox
2012-03-15: On Preferring Spaces Over Tabs in PHP
2012-03-08: Differences in Packaging Approaches: Aura, Symfony2, and ZF2
2012-02-16: Speaking at Dallas PHP
2012-02-15: Aura 1.0.0-beta2 Released
2012-01-01: The Aura Project: Now For PHP 5.4, With Beta Releases
2011-12-05: Solving the N+1 Problem; or, "A Stitch In Time Saves Nine"
2011-09-16: Jones' Law
2011-07-22: Queries inside queries
2011-07-06: Best New PHP Blog: Jeremy Kendall
2011-06-26: Interview with Voices of the Elephant
2011-05-18: On War, and Development
2011-05-17: Crockford on Quality and Style
2011-05-14: Blogger outage makes case against cloud-only
2011-05-10: I Like My IT Budget Tight and My Developers Stupid
2011-05-04: Different Definitions of Quality
2011-05-04: You are NOT a Software Engineer!
2011-04-28: Estimation Methodology: 2 Workers, 1 Day Per Controller Method
2011-04-28: Executive Bullpens
2011-04-22: Planning For Service Failures
2011-03-15: Ideas of March
2011-03-12: Include-Based vs Class-Based Architecture
2011-03-08: "Most people? Not nerds."
2011-03-04: Design Gods, Hear My Prayer
2011-03-03: Voices of the ElePHPant
2011-03-02: Aura for PHP 5.3+, aka Solar 2.0
2011-02-14: Happy Birthday Solar!
2011-02-02: Benchmarking Slides from PHPBenelux 2011
2011-01-19: Another Unified Constructor Sighting
2010-12-10: On The Passing Of Richard "Cyberlot" Thomas
2010-10-27: Comparing Benchmark Tools
2010-10-19: PHP Framework Benchmarks on Github
2010-10-19: Regarding Underscores
2010-09-06: The Miserable Mathematics of the Man-Month
2010-09-04: The Central Tension Of Programming
2010-08-04: The Perils of Error Reduction; or, Starbucks for Programmers
2010-06-28: Offer Accepted: Vice President of Engineering at Company 52
2010-06-19: Solar 1.1.1 Stable Released
2010-06-16: Nashville PHP User Group
2010-06-16: Disaster Rituals
2010-06-01: On The Job Market Again
2010-05-13: How Complex Systems Fail
2010-04-21: Seven Pillars of Pretty Code
2010-04-11: Does Software Development Have A Culture Of Rewarding Failure?
2010-03-12: Solar 1.0.0 Stable Released
2010-02-16: Drucker on Quitting
2010-01-01: Solar Beta 1 and 2, With A Blog Demo
2009-12-30: Keith Casey on "Joining a Startup"
2009-12-01: Comprehensible Code
2009-11-11: The Future of Zend Framework is Solar
2009-11-05: When only the glib win, we all lose
2009-10-26: Agile Gone Bad?
2009-06-25: Scalable Internet Architecture