Newsletter #49

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So, Ramadan is over! The team is excited to get be back on full throttle! Lots of exciting stuff on the way!

Here are the links we have for you this week:

• Declarative Programming And The Web
• Git Happens – A must watch video for every git user
• Selenium Client Libraries built with PHP, a comparison
• Composer for busy developers – slides from php|tek13 talk
• How PGP works under the hood
• Node.js CMS and web application platform built on Express and MongoDB
• Panopticlick reveals the cookie you can’t delete
• The community now has an initial draft of a PHP language specification
• Eloquent JavaScript
• Facebook have released an in-depth guide for their Flux architecture for frontend applications, including a TodoMVC
• The New GitHub Issues
• Zappos just abolished bosses. Inside tech’s latest management craze
• Polymer vs. X-Tag – Here’s the difference
• Express to Hapi.js
• A book focused on the programming strategies and techniques behind computer simulations of natural systems using the programming language Processing.
• Fast, isolated development environments using Docker
• The next major PHP version will be number 7 and not number 6
• When REST isn’t good enough
• chmod -x chmod , a brilliant presentation on sys will answer to a tricky question
• A friendly wrapper for launchctl on osx. Start your agents and go to lunch!
• PHPUnit Best Practices
• Test{able|ing} Symfony2 Applications
• Webinar: PhpStorm Best Practices – The Perfect Workflow for PHP Developers
• Turn Chrome Dev Tools into an IDE
• How we make RWD sites load fast as heck
• Github’s CSS and Style Guide
• Ten CSS One-Liners to Replace Native Apps
• The Refactoring Tales: Efficiently Refactoring the Code