What is a PHP Scout
Recently I’ve had a lot of people asking me what a PHP Scout is! I thought it would be a good opportunity to explain. To understand what a PHP Scout is it helps to know a little of the background basics of Scouting in …
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The PHP Scout Membership Badge
As the PHP Boy Scout I’m having some badges made and I wanted to introduce the all new PHP Scout Membership Badge.
My first ever public appearance as PHPBoyScout
So it’s finally happened! I stood up in front of a group of developers and gave a lightning talk about how Scouting Principles should be applied to every day development. [slideshare …
Goodbye Dev in Charge
Over all the time that I’ve been a developer I’ve had people telling me that I should get in front of an audience and speak. However I’ve always suffered from a rather bad case of ‘Imposter Syndrome’ which meant my …
Free Open Source Website for Scouts
I’ve been a Scout Leader for a few years now and the District I work within have very little by way of internet presence. As a bit of a pet project I started building a simple Scout based website for them to use.
Its time for a change
So… Its been a long time since I posted anything of any relevance. This is due to having been super busy with my previous company Zucchi. However that has all changed now! After three and a half years of running my own …
Flexbox cross browser
Despite having been around for a while and having been through a couple of revisions, its support across browsers can vary greatly. From “Candidate Recommendation” on Chrome/Opera, “legacy flexbox” on Firefox and no …
Creating Custom Routes in Silverstripe 3.1
We wanted to create a Route to our custom Products Controller in our products module for SilverStripe 3.1, such as: “http://www.examplesite.com/products/” However looking at the Controller Documentation it was not clear …
Disabling Cache in Silverstripe 3.1
While working with Silverstripe we found ourselves having to run “?flush=1” a lot to clear the Cache. To switch it off, while you work, add the following to your mysite/_config.php: …
Set up SilverStripe 3.1 using only Git (No Composer)
We recently tried to use composer to set up SilverStripe 3.1, but ended up with a dependency nightmare. In order to work around this we decided to make use of Git submodules. First set up your Git repository and run: git …