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I do a lot of consulting work and because of this I see lots of different development processes at many companies. Some of them are good, but most of them are not. And this problem isn’t caused …

The question I get asked a lot, is what makes Saffire different? The most honest answer: nothing. There is absolutely nothing that makes Saffire different from other language, because Saffire …

Exception handling is available in PHP since version 5. It allows you to have a more fine-grained control over code when things go wrong ie, when exceptions occur. But since PHP 5.5, exception …

It happens more and more: large projects where your symfony2 site is just a small part in the big picture. Lots of additional components might even play a bigger part, especially when you are dealing …

Most development languages will have some kind of printf() functionality. It takes a string, and can have optional arguments, depending on the placeholders you have set inside your string.

Even in these days, with full-featured PHP IDEs around, I still see PHP developers using var_dump() and die() to debug their code. Not only is this a very bad way of “debugging”, it has …

So, Saffire started as a way to “learn” a bit about flex/bison. I’ve dealt with these systems before a long time ago (pre-2K), and i forgot lots about them. So it was about time for …

One of the many things I do, on pretty much a weekly basis, is answering questions about REST and HTTP. Is this status code correct for X, should I use POST or PUT, is this hateoas enough, how do i …

A few months ago I started with a new programming language called Saffire, and it’s time for an update. Since then, we have merged over 100 pull requests, and the number of contributors is …

I love working with composer. I think it’s a really neat way of dealing with dependencies in (PHP) projects and it’s not for nothing that big frameworks like symfony2 are using composer as …