nodejs vs io.js – http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/01/14/io_dot_js_version_1_0/ Fastclick: https://github.com/ftlabs/fastclick HHVM – http://hhvm.com/blog/8405/coming-soon-in-hhvm async mysql support HHVM – XHP v2 https://github.com/facebook/xhp-lib

Very brief update re: my earlier absence and a couple thoughts on the Sunshine PHP conference. Rasmus’ keynote notes Paul Jones ADR post Sunshine PHP 2015

https://placeit.net – Place your website in stock photos with ease http://www.orm-designer.com – Create a visual model and generate code for popular ORM tools (Doctrine, Hibernate, Propel). http://ormcheatsheet.com – Quick overview of various ORM configs for popular PHP frameworks. http://ticonf.org/#nyc_location – Heading to the Titanium conference May 9-11 https://metric.io/blog/2014/04/simple-client-side-error-logging

Upcoming Upcoming interview with former Twitpiccer about scaling service up to billions of requests – get your questions in ASAP. Sass 3.3 released http://blog.sass-lang.com/posts/184094-sass-33-is-released Free python screencasts from neckbeard republic https://www.neckbeardrepublic.com/ New free font : Clear Sans https://01.org/clear-sans   PHP/HipHop/HHVM/Hack/Zephir/etc Lots of movement happening in the PHP world recently, and I barely scratch the surface … Continue reading Episode 120: Quick update, rant about PHP, upcoming interview

I had a chance to chat with Toran Billups about EmberJS, PyTenn and other stuff.  Take a listen 🙂 toranbillups.com emberjs.com

C# may get the safe navigation operator soon! http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jerrynixon/archive/2014/02/26/at-last-c-is-getting-sometimes-called-the-safe-navigation-operator.aspx Bing Code Search for Visual Studio http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudio/archive/2014/02/17/introducing-bing-code-search-for-c.aspx PHP Object Injection in WordPress http://vagosec.org/2013/09/wordpress-php-object-injection/ Dates are hard – Ben Ramsey http://benramsey.com/blog/2014/02/dates-are-hard/wdr_118

Intel’s XDK cross platform mobile development: http://xdk-software.intel.com Try out ElasticSearch in a ‘fiddle-like’ environment: https://www.found.no/play/ NightwatchJS browser test: http://nightwatchjs.org Security headers you should know about: http://ibuildings.nl/blog/2013/03/4-http-security-headers-you-should-always-be-using

Puppet vs Chef vs Ansible vs Salt post and discussion http://www.infoworld.com/d/data-center/review-puppet-vs-chef-vs-ansible-vs-salt-231308 http://www.alpacajs.org Zurb Foundation 5 released discussion Yii framework 2.0 alpha DotNetFiddle – Fiddle with C# from your browser

PHP BDD Framework: https://github.com/danielstjules/pho Comparison chart of front-end CSS frameworks: http://usablica.github.io/front-end-frameworks/compare.html PHP VCR: http://php-vcr.github.io reddit discussion Protect yourself with different terminal colors based on what server you’re connecting to!

Netbeans 7.4 is out. HTML5 development for Android and iOS devices HTML5 development in Java EE and PHP applications Editing support for Knockout and AngularJS frameworks fontello – icon fonts generator effekt.css timing attacks via html5