PHP Advent 2011

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1. 24^th Dec: Facilitating Development Environment Consistency by Jeff Loiselle

   Every developer is different, but your team’s development environment does not have…

2. 23^rd Dec: Look Ma! No Passwords! by Dan Mills

   Your user sign-in experience is one of the most important interactions on your site, and all of the options you have…

3. 22^nd Dec: Keep the Front in the Front by Rachel Andrew

   When rendering pages with our content management system, we have to try to stay out of our customers’…

4. 21^st Dec: Social-Driven Development by Chris Cornutt

   As any developer can tell you, the way we write apps has changed dramatically over the past year…

5. 20^th Dec: Code for the Users, Not for the Spec by Drew McLellan

   I don’t know exactly when it was that I started to resent the people I was writing code for, but it…

6. 19^th Dec: Egomaniacal and Scalable Apps by David Coallier

   The rise of cloud computing over the past few years has been incredible. Unfortunately, many still…

7. 18^th Dec: Simplifying Commerce for Small Business by Ben Ramsey

   The simple act of you giving me currency in exchange for a good or service I provide is not…

8. 17^th Dec: PHP for All the Things by Matt Graham

   PHP was originally designed for web sites and is still widely thought of only as a programming language for the Web…

9. 16^th Dec: Cracks in the Foundation by Gwynne Raskind

   PHP has been around for a long time, and it’s starting to show its age. The language has creaky joints…

10. 15^th Dec: Cross-Origin Ajax with CORS by David Walsh

    Web developers are nothing if not persistent, so we’ve come up with ways to get around cross-origin…

11. 14^th Dec: Nightmare Before (Last) Christmas by Jeremy Kendall

    A little over a year ago I was plunged into a nightmare world. I had accepted a new job as the…

12. 13^th Dec: Don’t Forget the Front by Beth Tucker Long

    Everyone talks about automated testing for your code, but that’s only half of the testing I need. What…

13. 12^th Dec: Bake Cookies Like a Chef by Michael Nitschinger

    Let’s explore how to securely store data on the client side, and how to detect unwanted modifications…

14. 11^th Dec: Out with the Old by Maggie Nelson

    Jetpacks. Flying cars. Databases able to handle infinite amounts of data. Breakthrough after breakthrough, computer…

15. 10^th Dec: Better Object-Oriented Arrays by Ryan Parman

    I’ve been working on developer-facing software and SDKs in PHP for nearly a decade, and through…

16. 9^th Dec: Merry Error Handling by Samer Atiani

    PHP does not enjoy the same consistency in error (and exception) handling as other languages, mostly due to…

17. 8^th Dec: Integration Testing by Wez Furlong

    At some point in our respective programming careers, most of us have heard that Test-Driven Development is what…

18. 7^th Dec: Twilio in Two Minutes by Elizabeth Naramore

    I love Twilio. If you’re not yet familiar with Twilio and the amazing voice and text messaging stuff you can…

19. 6^th Dec: Dates and Times by Evert Pot

    Having dealt with a lot of dates and times — and the calculations between them —  recently, I thought it might be a good idea to…

20. 5^th Dec: A Stitch in Time Saves Nine by Paul Jones

    It is easiest to describe the N+1 problem by example. Take a look at the following bit of PHP in a hypothetical…

21. 4^th Dec: Better Than the Rest by Rob Allen

    If you’ve written a web service that other clients are going to connect to, I’m willing to bet you think you’ve done…

22. 3^rd Dec: Reduced-Friction Deployment by Chris Hartjes

    I view my job as shepherding code from its inception in a Vim buffer, in a terminal session, in…

23. 2^nd Dec: More Than Just Style by Laura Beth Denker

    PHP CodeSniffer is a wonderfully simple tool for implementing and enforcing a coding standard.

24. 1^st Dec: Because It’s Fun! by Derek Sivers

    This is the only thing I love doing. Programming is pure creativity. Why would I hand off the fun stuff to someone else?

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