php applications

Alessandro Nadalin has a new post to his blog looking at the Composer project and using it to manage packages and dependencies in PHP applications.

Brian Swan has posted another in his "unit testing on Azure" posts to his blog today. This time he shows how to get VisualPHPUnit running on your Windows Azure installed code.

The latest episode of the DevHell podcast has been posted - Episode 3, "Beatings Will Continue Until Test Coverage Improves".

Henrik Bjørnskov has posted a bit of an in-depth look at Stampie, an abstraction library for sending emails from PHP applications via various service providers (like SendGrid and Mailchimp).

Can .NET make PHP run faster than the official PHP implementation? By Manuel Lemos Phalanger is compiler that generates .NET assemblies from PHP code, so it runs in a .NET virtual machine.

The Ibuildings techPortal has posted the latest episode of their recordings from this year's Dutch PHP Conference - Derick Rethans' talk "Profiling PHP Applications".

On the Nelm.io blog today there's a new post (part one of a series) about using Composer and Packagist to manage PHP applications as packages.

php|architect has officially announced the speaker line up for what they call their "Cloud Summit", a day-long event happening at the end of November about cloud computing - what it is and how you and your PHP applications can take advantage of it.

In a follow up to his previous post about how PHP is broken (and what can be done to fix it), Court Ewing has this new post with a few suggestions on how PHP development could be better, but admits that PHP itself is not broken.

In a recent post from Learncomputer.com, there's a comparison of two PHP profilers - the PHP Quick Profiler and the one included in Xdebug.