Written by Matthew Weier o'Phinney
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on Jan. 26, 2017
We all know the standard HTTP request methods and status codes, right? Or do we? We definitely know whether or not they should be integers or strings, and/or how string values should be normalized, right? And our IDEs can totally autocomplete them, right? Oh, that's not the case? Some time ago, a…
Written by Matthew Weier o'Phinney
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on Oct. 24, 2016
I've been trying to automate everything this year. When working on OSS, this is usually as simple as setting up Travis CI; in some cases, even that becomes a little more involved, but remains possible. But that's continuous integration. What about continuous development? Continuous development? Wit…
Written by Matthew Weier o'Phinney
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on Aug. 17, 2016
One aspect of Zend Framework 3, we paid particular focus on was leveraging the Composer ecosystem. We now provide a number of Composer plugins for handling things such as initial project installation, registering installed modules with the application, and more. It's the "more" I particularly want…
Written by Matthew Weier o'Phinney
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on Jun. 30, 2016
AWS CodeDeploy is a tool for automating application deployments to EC2 instances and clusters. It can pull application archives from either S3 or GitHub, and then allows you to specify how to install, configure, and run the application via a configuration specification and optionally hook scripts.…
Written by Matthew Weier o'Phinney
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on May. 16, 2016
Enrico just returned from phpDay, where he spoke about Expressive and the upcoming Zend Framework 3. One piece of feedback he brought back had to do with how people perceive they should be building Expressive applications: many think, based on our examples, that it's completely configuration driven…
Written by Matthew Weier o'Phinney
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on Apr. 26, 2016
A month or two ago, we pushed a new release of zend-mvc that provides a number of forwards-compatibility features to help users prepare their applications for the upcoming v3 release. One of those was, evidently, quite controversial: in v3, zend-servicemanager no longer defines the ServiceLocatorAw…