PHP vs Python vs Ruby: Detailed Comparison compares the three popular languages in a variety of categories, such as total market share, large website deployments, usability, learning curve, popularity, performance, etc. It’s a nice overview if you are about to pick one of these languages for the future projects, or if you are (like me) have been stuck with one of them for a long time, and haven’t really kept an eye on what’s going on in the rest of the world.
This year I’ll be migrating quite a bit of stuff from PHP 5 to PHP 7. We haven’t started with the process yet, but with the recent indicators like PHPUnit 6 release, I’m sure the priority of this work will start rising.
Obviously, I’m familiar with the new features of PHP 7 and some of the things that will have to be done in order to port the applications and make use of the new version. But it still helps reading through articles like “Migrating a PHP 5 App to PHP 7 “, which comes in two parts:
Composer is great as it is. It’s even greater with all those plugins that people have created for it. But for when I’ll need to write my own, I’m sure I’ll find this blog post quite handy – “A Composer plugin development environment“.
Suhas Chatekar explains how they use API maps to visualizing complex APIs, resources those API expose and how those resources relate to each other.
If only there was a tool that would help with this …
