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Continuing the design patterns in PHP posts, we are going to focus today on the Decorator pattern and how we are using it in Phalcon.

Fifteen years after my original posts on design patterns in PHP, this series revisits those ideas with modern tools.

I have always wanted to have a machine that is reasonably secure.

I have been using PhpStorm for a decade now I believe that it is the best IDE for PHP developers.

With the release of PHP 8.2 in November 2022, Phalcon and in particular Zephir were adjusted accordingly to support the new code and generate the correct module for this new PHP release.

It has been a while since my last post.

Many of us use Linux machines as our primary workstations.

Home scanners have not fully caught up with their drivers and support for Linux.

Code coverage is a very informative feature of testing.

Quite some time ago, I had the brilliant idea to visualize the commits in the Phalcon repository.

Recently I have put some effort in organizing some of our video files.

Sometimes, it is necessary to retrieve a full static copy of a website (hopefully one you own).

I have been advocating for testable code for more than a decade now.

When working with repositories that utilize composer packages, sometimes you might get into a situation, where you expect a package to be present, but a different version is what exists in your vendor folder.

Google Books is probably a not very well known and used service by Google.

2020 is the year when PHP will change versions.

Google Photos offers one of the best - if not the best - photo managing and sharing service on the Internet.

Google Maps is very convenient and accurate.

Leaving Gmail is difficult.

This is a series of posts, regarding my efforts to remove as much as possible myself as well as my family from using Google services.

Junior developer, Senior developer, Senior Architect...

PHP is an extremely powerful language with tons of features and functions.

This blog post is not related to the actual code of Phalcon, but to the process of updating our documentation and notifying our Discord server of the build status.

I have been using git for quite a while now and am very comfortable with the bread and butter commands such as git clone, git commit. git pull, etc.

This article explains how to migrate a SVN repository to Git.

This article is cross posted from the Phalcon Blog

Recently I worked on setting up replication between our AWS RDS instance and a server running as a MySQL slave in our location.

> Traits are a mechanism for code reuse in single inheritance languages such as PHP. > > A Trait is similar to a class, but only intended to group functionality in a fine-grained and consistent way.

This is the first of a series of posts, describing how we built the Phalcon Blog (and this one of course).

One of the primary factors that always needs to be taken into consideration when designing and implementing an application is performance.

It has definitely been a very long time since I last blogged.

One of the common "mistakes" that programmers (and have been guilty as charged many a times in the past) is not to use the tools that are available to them to the maximum extent possible.

Those that have been following my blog and posts on Google+ know that for the last year or so I have been involved heavily in PhalconPHP, a C based PHP framework, which delivers its functionality as an extension loaded on the web server.

Once again we celebrate Memorial Day in the USA.

It's been a while since I last wrote a blog post, so I wanted to touch on the effort to upgrade the application that I wrote for Harry Hog Fottball using PhalconPHP and AngularJS

Recently I was contacted by an acquaintance through my Google+ circles, who needed some help with a project of hers.

This is Part II of a series of posts on building an application using Phalcon and AngularJS.

There are ample frameworks on the Internet, most free, that a programmer can use to build a web application.

Today we celebrate the Declaration of Independence in the United States, also known widely as the 4th of July.

I have written about this before and it is still my favorite mantra

Once again we celebrate Memorial Day in the USA.

I was recently assigned a task in my current job, to try and standardize address related data.

Recently I had to rebuild my computer, and decided to install Linux Mint 12 (Lisa), which is a very lean installation - for my taste that is.

As applications grow, so do their audiences.

> Serialization is the process of converting a data structure or object state into a format that can be stored and "resurrected" later in the same or another computer environment. source

Throughout my career I have been using various revision control systems.

It has been a very long time since I last blogged.

Gentoo is one of my favorite Linux distributions.

We all knew it was coming.

I have recently blogged about Slicehost vs.