Musings, ninja ones

On this day, 20 years ago, PHP version 1.0 debuted to the world; It was a way of escaping the horror of writing your CGI programs in Perl, or worse, with your own bespoke set of C functions (that you wrongly referred to as a framework internally).
You probably wouldn't recognize code from that era:...

Fig 1. Some kind of horrific monkey-muppet-tellytubby hybrid.
Much to the dismay of every RoR fanboy that ever lived, I'm not going to break character and start mocking PHP in the literal, playground sense.
I'm talking, of course, about mocking internal PHP functions and methods, so that we can test code that relies upon them....

Today I'd like to share a screencast I am working on, I'm thinking about giving some talks on the UK conference circuit in 2015.
This is my first go at doing a screencast, making slides, and making diagrams, so forgive any mistakes in production.
Please do provide feedback, this talk needs to be developed to be about 15 minutes long to be suitable for use as a lightening talk, and may be developed into a full length talk of an hour....

Fig 1. Strict Easter Egg
After much discussion, the research conducted on introducing strict scalar parameter type hints without changing Zend has been bundled into a pecl package.
To install the strict extension for PHP5.4+ execute the following: