Zephir is a programming language for building PHP extensions. As in, the .so files that extend the PHP language itself. Normally you need to use the C programming language to create a PHP extension, but Zephir is an intermediate language you can compile down to C code, (using the provided tooling). Its build system also automatically [...]
astormFiling the prose project under things I want to checkout if I ever have time, if only to see how it handles comma spliced sentances like this one.
astormIn the begining (or near enough to it), PHP had a set of functions for talking to MySQL databases — mysql_connect, mysql_query, mysql_.... While newer database APIs like the mysqli_ functions and PDO came along these older functions hung in there and remained hugely popular right up until the end. The end being their removal from [...]
astormI don’t have any first hand experience with it, but Moltin’s a new-to-me API Only ecommerce service/start-up. API only meaning there’s no UI, just REST endpoints for you to call and perform the basic operations of any ecommerce system. If you only have shallow knowledge of other open source and commercial ecommerce [...]
astormI just released version 1.4.3 of pestle over the weekend. Mostly a maintaince release and tightening up things I stumbled across while working through the Learning Magento with Pestle screencast series with my patreons. We’v also got a few additional contributors to the project. Pestle is a command line framework I built to manage [...]
astormPestle (my PHP command line script frameowrk and Magento 2 code generation tool) has has a bash tab completion script for a while, but I finally wrote up some basic instructions for using it in the pestle README. It’s super annoying that MacOS doesn’t ship with the more robust bash-completion program installed by default, but [...]
astormThis high level history of PHP passed my desk — I didn’t start using the language until version three (and I still, to this day, forget access modifiers on my class method names or type things like public thisIsMyMethod because the typing cadence for defining a method was two words) so it’s nice to have some high level [...]
astormThis entry is part 4 of 4 in the series Just Enough C for PHP. Earlier posts include Just Enough C for PHP, Just Enough C for PHP: Running C Programs, and Just Enough C for PHP: Variables and Types. This is the most recent post in the series. First, a quick note from your author. When I conceived this series its primary goal was to give [...]
astormSuhosin is an older PHP extension that tries to lock down common security attack vectors in PHP. This locking down includes preventing phar applications (like pestle) from running. If you’re using Suhosin and want to use PHAR archives you’ll need to configure things properly.
astormI found this out from a random banner on Shopify support page while trying to figure out why my store’s email had stopped working so I figured I’d signal boost it. Hooks are HTTP requests Shopify sends out when an order’s made that include order information. They’re sent to your servers, and let you do all sort of [...]
astormThis whitepaper from Nexcess isn’t your usual “Hey look, we’re sucesful enough to pay a consultant for a whitepaper so we must be stable” affair. Instead it’s a methodical look at every layer of Nexcess’s Magento hosting stack and how they optimize each one for a Magento 2 system. I thought it was a [...]
astormProbably not of wide interest, but this GitHub repo with a PHP Parser written in Go rings several of my current bells.
astormOver on my sleepy patreon I posted a public example of of the sort of things I’m working on w/r/t Magento these days. My screencasts are still lagging behind when compared to the sort of things being done at Mage2.tv, but the content’s still useful and it’s good speaking practice for me
astormAnother set of slides from a Benoit Jacquemont talk I would have loved to see. My high level summary Don’t forget that your PHP program isn’t talking with anything directly, all activity goes through the your operating system’s kernel, and there are tools (strace on linux) for looking at the system calls your program is [...]
astormThis Stack Overflow post about some weird differences between direct instantionation of an Array vs. using the new Array constructor function is a great example of why coding standards can be more than just window dressing. It’s not that one of the methods is better than the other, but by chosing one over the other you avoid the [...]
astormGiven the date on the Stack Overflow post that saved me this is probably old hat for most of you, but it looks like the MySQL configuration provided by Ubuntu 18’s default apt-get repositories defaults to using “the auth_socket plugin”, which links your MySQL logins with your actual system login. Gave me a bit of the [...]
astormI imagine it’s a narrow sliver of folks who follow this site and don’t follow the trades, but just in case: Adobe is going to buy Magento Inc. Right now there’s the usual sound and fury you’d expect from the usual places — Magento’s relentlessly on-message machine isn’t slacking off just because [...]
astormThis one came across my desk last week. Dangers of using a kitchen sink language I suppose.
astormFile strtime-js under “Things I’ll need to try the next time I’m working on a javascript project”. Its a javascript library that appears to do a lot of “hey here’s something that might be a date make it look like this”, similar to PHP’s built-in date function.
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