Written by Fabien Potencier
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on Oct. 12, 2014
Rants about PHP are everywhere, and they even come from smart guys. When Jeff Atwood wrote yet another rant about PHP, it made me think about the good parts of PHP. The biggest problem of these rants is that they come from people stuck in the old days of PHP. They either don't care or they don't wa…
Written by Matthias Noback
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on Oct. 12, 2014
A short introduction to semantic versioning Semantic versioning is an agreement between the user of a package and its maintainer. The maintainer should be able to fix bugs, add new features or completely change the API of the software they provide. At the same time, the user of the package should…
Written by Matthias Noback
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on Oct. 12, 2014
Symfony bundles: providing services and exposing resources When you look at the source code of the Symfony framework, it becomes clear that bundles play two distinct and very different roles: in the first place a bundle is a service container extension: it offers ways to add, modify or remove servi…
Written by Matthias Noback
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on Oct. 12, 2014
About interface segregation, dependency inversion and package stability You are creating a nice reusable package. Inside the package you want to use events to allow others to hook into your own code. You look at several event managers that are available. Since you are somewhat familiar with the Sym…