Package Release Announcement: Normie

Announcing the immediate beta release of my most recent PHP package: Normie.

5 PHP Tools to make your life more enjoyable.

  Tools; they can make your life amazingly productive or hellishly frustrating. Over the past decade I have had the privilege to use a wide…

Great article on Pull Requests

`Anatomy of a perfect pull request` over at opensource.com is a great article that touches on what it is that makes a PR a good…

Want to host your own Git service? GitLab a bit to heavy weight? Checkout Gitea.

Git
Came across this self hosted Git service today. Yes GitLab is amazing but also very complicated and large. Requiring a 4Gb RAM system to operate…

`git stash` magic

Srebalaji Thirumalai over on dev.to has a nice write up covering git stash and the many amazing things it can do.  Check it out.

PHPSTorm, once again showing why it’s the best PHP Editor.

EAP 2018.1 will include loop refactoring to use SPL array_* functions. Nice! Refactor your code to functional style with PhpStorm 2018.1

Top development tools of 2017 from StackNews.

One of my favorite tech news sites StackShare has releases there annual Top Tools list of 2017. From New Tool of the Year to Business Tool of the…

OWASP end of year round up

Excellent article discussing the top 10 application vulnerabilities. Given this year has seen Equifax, US Military, and a number of other organizations fail there job…

Package release announcement. Auto-Gourcer (Repository visualizer)

I’ve always had a soft spot for visualizations. Info-graphics, animations, the the like. One specific tool I came across years back is Gource. Finally got…

PHPStorm 2017.3 EAP New feature: In editor REST client.

If you happen to be anything like me, you spend a lot of time with APIs. JSON is a on your resume as a second…