Click to Play A lot of Web Services today claim to be RESTful APIs. But are they really? Do the URLs form a logical hierarchy, and do they accurately identify resources? Are the powers of HTTP leveraged properly? What is hypermedia, and what is the secret behind the HATEOAS acronym that is so essential to… read more

Click to Play Over the past two years weve been pushing to improve our automated testing practices within Plusnet and to win full support for it within the company across the spectrum of fellow developers, project managers and upper management. It took a while to agree on software we want to use, and standards we… read more

Click to Play A quick romp though installing a full php development tool chain. Starting at A for Apache and ending at X for X-debug including U for unit testing and S for source control. Associated Code (svn checkout)

Click to Play Most PHP talks are given from the point of view of developers, managers, QAs, community members and other obvious stakeholders of the wonderful world of PHP.The story of the hoster is often untold, but the importance of the hoster is in a lot of cases underestimated. Hosters have a huge responsibility and… read more