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on Sep. 10, 2018
Using symfony/symfony makes Composer install all Symfony Components in the same version. But when using the standalone packages, Composer might install dependencies in a different major version - for example, symfony/validator v2.8 is compatible with symfony/translation v3.0. The Problem This is fi…
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on Aug. 8, 2018
After using phpbrew to manage my local PHP versions for a while, I got tired of re-compiling PHP after every release and decided to install multiple PHP versions side-by-side with Ondřej Surý's PPA. One of the features I missed from phpbrew was the ability to run a command like phpbrew use php-7.2.…
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on Mar. 19, 2018
As you may know, Git is not a single application, but rather a toolkit containing many small programs and scripts that can manipulate the repository. This makes it trivial to chain those components into more-powerful, custom commands which can be defined as git aliases. Here are some of the more-us…
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on Jan. 26, 2018
I recently upgraded my system from Ubuntu 16.04 with Unity to Ubuntu 17.10 with Gnome Shell 3. One of the "features" I found annoying was that my IDE PhpStorm was not popping to the front and receiving focus whenever breakpoints were hit. I eventually figured out a solution and wanted to document…
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on Jan. 14, 2018
Back in November I released colinodell/json5 - a JSON5 parser for PHP. It's essentially a drop-in replacement for PHP's json_decode() function, but it allows things like comments, trailing commas, and more. Fast forward to this weekend when I received the following bug report from a user named Anto…
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on Dec. 30, 2017
league/commonmark is wrapping up 2017 with the release of version 0.17! Changes include: Minimum PHP version bumped to 5.6 New "max_nesting_level" setting A few performance optimizations Clean up deprecations and not-so-great code For more info, check out: Changelog: https://github.com/thephpleague…