Posted by Will Thomas on Jun 05, 2015

Weekly roundup - June 5

It’s weekly roundup time again. It’s our opportunity to share with you the best articles and podcasts doing the rounds in the office this week.

Articles

PHP CLI: A very good step-by-step guide by Matthieu Moquet for setting up PHAR support in a PHP application along with auto-update functionality.
http://moquet.net/blog/distributing-php-cli/

Serialisation: Phil Sturgeon talks about the importance of thinking about the serialisation of an API output.
https://philsturgeon.uk/api/2015/05/30/serializing-api-output/

Symfony: KNP University share how they went about upgrading to Symfony 2.7 and dealing with deprecation notices.
http://knpuniversity.com/blog/upgrading-symfony-2.7

Design patterns: Marc Aube explains how to use the Specification Pattern to create business rules, with examples.
http://marcaube.ca/2015/05/specifications/

3DevsAndAMaybe: This week our very own Edd Mann discusses Google Analytics, programming security and PHAR support in PHP on Three Devs and a Maybe.
http://threedevsandamaybe.com/easy-like-sunday-morning/

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