A metaphor about PSR-7 and Middleware for non-developers
Explaining PSR-7 and middleware to non-developers with a fire bucket brigade: the request is the bucket, and everyone gets to touch it.
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Orienteering
Step-by-step how-tos. Pick up the map and follow along.
Flexbox cross browser
An SCSS mixin that emits every legacy and vendor-prefixed flexbox syntax at once, for the years when cross-browser flexbox meant four of them.
Creating Custom Routes in Silverstripe 3.1
Defining a custom SilverStripe 3.1 route with no action, using a module routes file plus url_handlers and allowed_actions.
Disabling Cache in Silverstripe 3.1
Stop running flush on every page load during SilverStripe development: set the cache default lifetime to minus one in your config.
Set up SilverStripe 3.1 using only Git (No Composer)
Installing SilverStripe 3.1 without Composer, by adding the framework and CMS repositories as Git submodules and wiring them up by hand.
Enabling MYSQL_CLIENT_INTERACTIVE with Doctrine 2 on Rackspace Cloud Database
Long-running PHP scripts dropped by the MySQL wait timeout on Rackspace, fixed by subclassing the Doctrine MySQLi connection to pass a flag.
Installing PECL extensions for Zend Server 6
Why PECL extensions fail to build on Debian and Ubuntu under Zend Server 6, and which source and build packages you need to install first.
Better Output for MySQL Select Command Using \G
End a MySQL command-line SELECT with backslash-G instead of a semicolon to get readable row-per-column output rather than a mangled table.
Glorious Gluster - How to setup GlusterFS on Rackspace Cloud and Ubuntu 12.10
Building a replicated GlusterFS distributed filesystem on Rackspace Cloud and Ubuntu 12.10: server setup, formatting bricks and mounting it.
Docblock, Oh Docblock, wherefore art thou Docblock (hint: Zend Optimizer Plus lost them)
Zend OptimizerPlus strips PHP docblocks when it caches bytecode, which quietly breaks Reflection, Doctrine and ZF2. How to get them back.