Moving Slim Skeleton to PHP 8.3
Although I support clients on a wide range of PHP versions (everything from 5.x to 8.x), I'm gradually moving my personal projects to track the latest stable version of PHP.…
CakePHP Application Development
This review was originally printed in the September 2008 edition of the UKUUG newsletter, which is now defunct. Title: CakePHP Application DevelopmentAuthors: Ahsanul Bari, Anupom SyamISBN: 9781847193896 For those who…
Skeleton Slim 4 application
I've been using the Slim Framework a lot recently, both in existing clients and for bootstrapping simple web applications. For new projects I've chosen it over the likes of Laravel…
Invoice Ninja and Vagrant
Invoice Ninja is a self-hosted and open source invoicing solution written using a PHP framework called Laravel. I wanted to give it a try as a replacement for my existing…
All about Mojolicious
Mojolicious is a web development framework for Perl, similar to Catalyst but with fewer dependencies and a gentler learning curve. Josette's blog has a two part interview with Sebastian Riedel, one of…
All about Dancer
Dancer is a web development framework, similar to Symfony and Zend but written in Perl. Josette’s blog has a three part interview with Sawyer X, one of the core developers on Dancer.…
How to respond to patches
A couple of weeks ago I made a pull request to the documentation of the Symfony framework entitled: Remove reference to copying parameters.yml from Git cookbook (does pretty much what it…
All about Catalyst
Catalyst is a web development framework, similar to Symfony, Zend etc. but written in Perl. Josette's blog has a three part interview with Matt S. Trout, one of the Catalyst…
CakePHP on FLOSS Weekly
FLOSS Weekly - a podcast covering Free Libre Open Source Software - recently had an episode covering the CakePHP framework, which may be of interest to readers of this blog. The…
Bootstrapping a Silex framework site
Recently I have been trying out the Silex micro-framework, as its counterpart Symfony was overkill for what I need. In the process of creating new test sites, I found that…