stuart herbert

Ben Selby has released a Sublime Text 2 plugin for the popular PHP-based documentation generation project DocBlox.

Stuart Herbert has officially released a plugin for the popular text editor Sublime Text 2 to integrate PHPUnit support directly into the editing environment.

Sublime Text 2 is a new cross-platform text editor that I’ve recently switched to.

It’s still in public beta, but already offers better performance (and battery life!) and a better look (fonts that render properly!) than Java-based IDEs such as Netbeans.

One thing it didn’t have was support for PHPUnit, so I’ve made a plugin.

It’s available to install via Package Control.

In my last blog post, I introduced ContractLib, a simple programming by contract library that I’ve created for PHP 5.3 onwards.

And I promised some examples :)

Installing ContractLib

ContractLib is available from the Phix project’s PEAR channel.

Installing it is as easy as:

In this recent post to his blog Stuart Herbert introduces a system he's created to handle "contracts" in PHP development - ContractLib.

The PHP North West User Group ran it’s 4th (and largest yet!) PHP conference – PHPNW11 in Manchester last weekend.

My last set of photos from PHP North West 2011 are the odd ones out, the ones that didn’t really fit into any of the other sets.

I hope you’ve enjoyed my photos from the conference, and maybe – just maybe – they’ve made you think about going to a PHP conference somewhere near you in the near future.

The PHP North West User Group ran it’s 4th (and largest yet!) PHP conference – PHPNW11 in Manchester last weekend.

This year, many of the sponsors were here not to drum up new business, but to hire new talent, continuing a trend from PHPUK11 earlier in the year.

Sponsoring a conference is cheaper than paying traditional recruiters, with no shortage of motivated attendees to talk to.

The PHP North West User Group ran it’s 4th (and largest yet!) PHP conference – PHPNW11 in Manchester last weekend.

The audience is a key part of any conference, and each year the PHP North West conference manages to attract more and more people back as it establishes its reputation for being one of the very best PHP conferences (and indeed, one of the very best UK tech conferences) around.

The PHP North West User Group ran it’s 4th (and largest yet!) PHP conference – PHPNW11 in Manchester last weekend.

This year’s conference line-up was particularly strong, both with the quality of speaker and the quality of topics, but there was one talk in particular that topped them all.

It all began with Rowan’s laptop …

The PHP North West User Group ran it’s 4th (and largest yet!) PHP conference – PHPNW11 in Manchester last weekend.