Five years ago JShrink was released to let PHP apps minify their javascript assets natively. Since then the PHP world has matured considerably, especially when it comes to package delivery. The introduction of composer, and it’s website counter part Packagist.org, has been a huge boon to development. Two and a half years ago JShrink was…
A Walkthrough of PSR-6: Caching
There’s been a lot of discussion about PSR-6, the php-fig caching interfaces, so I thought it was time to step in and describe what this system is all about. Be prepared to read far more about caching interfaces than you probably thought possible.
New Module for Managing PSAD using Puppet
I’m a firm believer in hosting my own email and other services, and after running some updates to deal with Shellshock I realized it was time to replace my provisioning scripts and bring my personal systems under proper configuration management. It was while doing this that I found out there isn’t a PSAD module for Puppet! This…
Major Stash and StashBundle Updates
For the last two months there has been a lot of development on Stash and the Symfony StashBundle, culminating in the release of Stash 0.12 and Stash Bundle v0.4. It’s hard to stress how much work went into these two releases. For Stash there was 139 commits and the Stash Bundle itself had another 103. Much of…
JShrink added to the HHVM Compatibility Test Suite
In the most recent release of JShrink I pledged full HHVM support, and since then have been running our full test suite against the 3.0 release as well as the nightly builds. Well, it seems that HHVM has itself committed to supporting JShrink, as they’ve added it to their own framework compatibility test suite. For the…
Today I’m proud to release JShrink v1.0!
When JShrink was first created it was meant to solve a simple problem- minify javascript as quickly as possible, and do so with an open source license. JShrink has been in development for several years now. It’s migrated from Google Code to Github and modernized with support for things like Composer and the PSR standards. It’s been…
Stash v0.11.6: Opcode Cache Bugfix
This release of Stash deals with changes between the APC and Opcode Caching system in PHP 5.4, specifically how opcode caches get invalidated. As of this release the Filesystem Driver explicitly invalidates the opcode cache for the files it creates or updates, preventing PHP from including an older version of it’s data. The new release…
Announcing Fetch v0.5.3
This release handled a few bugs and improves integration with the testing suite, particularly for people running it via Vagrant. The biggest benefit with testing is that the staging environment is now created and reset automatically when phpunit is run, rather than needing to be initialized separately. This release also adds better support for messages…
Stash reaches 40k Downloads through Packagist!
As I was poking around the Packagist website this morning I found that Stash has reached 40k downloads through composer! What’s really exciting is that 2,135 of those downloads were just in the last 10 days. This is an exciting milestone for me. Stash has been in active development since 2009, but was only moved to…
Building an Email Testing Environment with Vagrant, Dovecot and Travis-CI
In my previous post I introduced the testing suite I created for Fetch. Here I want to go through exactly what needed to be done to put that together. This post is a bit longer, and you really don’t need it to take advantage of this package, but it may provide some insight to anyone…