Posts by François Poirotte

PHPFarm Episode 1: Getting started

So far, I merely described the raison d’être of phpfarm. In this new post, we’ll get things rolling by actually using it to build and install a single version of PHP.

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PHPFarm Episode 0: A bit of history

Alright! In this new series of articles, we’re not going to collect vegetables. Instead, I’ll be focusing on phpfarm, a tool that allows several versions of PHP to co-exist.

In this first article, I’ll reminisce about the early days of PHP 5 and the reason projects like phpfarm were born in the first place.

Aside from that, I know the series on Composer isn’t finished yet. I have another entry in preparation but I can’t quite find the words to express my ideas on that topic right now. So, expect some interleaving between the two series in coming entries.

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Various thoughts on Composer: Part 1

Before you read on, let me make this clear: I love Composer, I really do! It has brought a lot of improvements to the PHP ecosystem by providing a common package manager that all developers can use [1].

However, I sometimes feel it doesn’t quite deliver some of its early promises or that it still lacks some important features.

This is the first post of a series of articles about what I find to be defective in Composer itself or in the way it is usually employed. It concerns security and how it is addressed in Composer.

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First blog entry

This is the very first post for my new blog about IT-related stuff!

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