PHP Developer - Pete Robinson - London and Essex PHP Developer specialising in Freelance PHP, mySQL, jQuery, XHTML, CSS, AJAX, XML and other web technologies

Dependency Injection in PHP

Apr 5th, 2013 Categories: Development

There's been a lot of talk about Dependency Injection in the PHP community recently. Due in no small part to Symfony2's heavy implementation of it to encompass just about everything inside the framework. Whilst I won't get into specifics of it's usage within Symfony2, here's a really brief rundown...

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The Problem With Being a PHP Developer

Sep 19th, 2012 Categories: Development Work Related

This is more a problem of perception rather than a problem with PHP itself. I have been working with PHP for over 10 years - back in the day when we were using $HTTP_POST_VARS to access the POST array. However, of late (with the gaining popularity of newer technologies such as Ruby on Rail and...

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Adding Facebook iFrame Tabs to Pages

Jan 24th, 2012 Categories: Development Work Related

There seems to be a lot of confusion around adding a Facebook iFrame Tab to a Facebook page - and quite rightly so as yet again, Facebook have change their precedures. ...

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The Problem With Interviewing For a PHP Developer

Nov 24th, 2011 Categories: Development Musings Work Related

Ok, so it's rant time. If there's one thing that gets to me, it's interview questions. Having been on both ends of the interview table, it's quite apparent that a lot of agencies (or should I say their staff) seriously lack interview skills. I'm referring more to the type of questions and challenges...

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The Facebook API

May 10th, 2011 Categories: Development Work Related

The past year or so, I've been doing a whole lot of work with the Facebook API. It seems that there is a lot of confusion amongst both developers and project / account managers around what can and can't be done with it. ...