Category: Technical

Composer is a great way of installing tools into your app without the old PEAR hassle of installing something on your own laptop, and then … Read more

PHP Markdown is a handy PHP script which converts markdown into HTML. You can, of course, get the code from GitHub. In case you don’t … Read more

Something we’re currently investigating for blogs.kent is the (relatively) new bbPress plugin to enable simple collaborative forums. In case you don’t already know, bbPress was … Read more

Our team recently faced a typical (PHP) developer problem: build a simple app in a few days that’s good-looking and feature-rich enough to convince your … Read more

Here in the webteam we have been moving towards including an automated test suite to every piece of work that we produce.  We have focused … Read more

Today I needed to pick up a project that a colleague had written and make modifications. Like a good developer should, he had written tests … Read more

Do you ever get the following confusing message when you run your PHPUnit tests? PDOException: You cannot serialize or unserialize PDO instances The fix You … Read more