Continuous integration testing is awesome and if you build software with a team you really should have it up and running. Travis CI is a free (for public repos) service which connects to your GitHub repositories and automatically runs your tests whenever someone pushes…

For a while now PHP-FIG has been making the PHP world better by defining standards for things like coding standards, coding styles, loggers and, importantly, autoloading. Autoloading is important because it allows us to write our code using Namespaces…

For a while now I’ve been beefing up my .bash_profile script with useful aliases. If you don’t know what .bash_profile is then read this great article which explains what it is and contains loads of useful info for getting started. I figured it might be helpful to share my…

I’ve been using Sass (specifically Scss) as my preprocesser of choice for some time now and it’s invaluable for taming your CSS when building larger projects (such as web apps). On a smaller project you can get away with maybe a couple of .scss…

Last week I launched Baun, a modern, lightweight, extensible CMS for PHP. It builds on the ethos of my first CMS Pico (which I sold and development has been non-existent) in that there is an emerging market for the “micro” CMS.

For pretty much five years running now I’ve taken time at the end of the year to reflect on the year that’s been, and look ahead to the year that’s to come. Last year I wanted to continue to work smarter, not harder and strike a better balance of “busyness” in my life. While I’m not sure I can…

This one tripped me up recently. Say you are wanting to test a bit of code using PHPunit that relies on a defined constant. You don’t want the define() to affect your other tests, you only want it to apply for this specific test. Something like this:

Recently I’ve been thinking a lot about WordPress and Composer (see my recent series on using WordPress with Git & Composer over on Delicious Brains) and how WordPress might implement dependency management at the core level. As more and more plugin developers start making…

I’ve spent the last while looking at different accounting software (web apps) that I can use for my small online business. I have been using FreeAgent for a few years, but recently discovered Xero and its powerful reconciliation features. However the more I’ve delved into…