I've been working towards packaging my domain logic at my current job so I can reuse it in multiple implementations. The code snippets below were an abandoned experiment for a php Laravel project. I have recently put together a simple way to build a query from an array.

As a software developers we often run into setting up semantic versioning tags on our Github projects. We've been told to think in terms of MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH for our versioning.

@wesbos recently tweeted a useful set of aliases for git. He also shared a tweet from @timdorr that had most of the goodies you'll find below.

Here's a quick tip if you are a php developer. A new composer package called prestissimo allows for parallel package installation. Understandably, everyone loves the performance improvement. I hope this functionality is rolled into composer itself.

If you don't have a Spotify account, join me. I am compiling a playlist of movie soundtracks that is mostly not distracting, although sometimes you just need to hear Moby's Extreme Ways.

So, I'm working on a refactor of a reasonably complex procedural framework that is split into three separate applications using a php framework named Laravel.

I've been perusing the code for Laravel Spark both for inspiration and to see how Taylor Otwell writes his application code. One class that took my special interest was the API\InvitationController.

I have recently setup a GitLab CE repo server for internal use only on a corporate network. It is going to replace a simple gitweb install.

If you want to have a group of actual friends that you communicate with, another solution has just gone multiplatform. There are solutions already, such as Telegram and Cryptocat.

I ran into an interesting bit of fun today where I had some rules in a Laravel 4 application that were checking the database table for unique values.

Eric Barnes provides a great way to validate information entered in form input named arrays on his blog (i.e. an input field named something like inputItem[1]).

I've been reading a fascinating book called High Performance Browser Networking by Ilya Grigorik. In fact, you can read it too because Velocity Conference has covered the cost of accessing the online copy.

I currently work in an enterprise environment. As usual, that means I must develop my web applications next to a primarily Windows based environment (i.e. LDAP / Active Directory).

So, I just moved my personal websites over from shared hosting on Dreamhost over to a really nice company called Digital Ocean (referral link). They allow you to create a VPS, virtual private server, stored on SSD raid arrays for stupid cheap prices.

Let's pretend you want to connect to a Microsoft SQL server to pull/sync data out of an application you did not write, and you use a PHP framework for your

My quest to upload files from PHP into SharePoint 2010 Document Libraries eluded me until I came across instructions to simply use HTTP PUT requests to send the files with Basic Authentication.

One does not simply make an intranet php application on an Ubuntu based Apache server load inside a Sharepoint Web Part with auto-magic Windows/LDAP authentication over NTLM. Okay... It is actually possible.

If you ever choose to live in the Central West of New South Wales, TNT Express is not forthcoming with the location of their depots.