Christopher Pitt

Christopher is a writer and coder, working at Over. He usually works on application architecture, though sometimes you'll find him building compilers or robots.

Christopher's articles

PHP Macros for Fun and Profit!

PHP

By Christopher Pitt, March 18, 2016

Chris demonstrates using Yay, a library for building PHP macros - syntax sugar for the language that doesn't rely on PHP extensions or blood magic

Websockets in Your Synchronous Site

PHP

By Christopher Pitt, February 24, 2016

Chris introduces Socketize, a "sockets-as-a-service" layer that helps you implement websockets into apps with zero overhead, then adds them to a PHP script!

Using the RulerZ Rule Engine to Smarten up Playlist Building

PHP

By Christopher Pitt, December 02, 2015

Christopher Pitt shows us how we can use RulerZ, the PHP rule engine, to smarten up playlist song selection by applying constraints and filters!

Memory Performance Boosts with Generators and Nikic/Iter

PHP

By Christopher Pitt, October 19, 2015

Christopher Pitt re-introduces generators on a practical demo by reading and writing large CSV files while using very little memory.

Build a Superfast PHP Server in Minutes with Icicle

PHP

By Christopher Pitt, September 16, 2015

Christopher Pitt goes through the process of building an extremely fast asynchronous PHP application server with Icicle and some League libraries - amazing!

An Introduction into Event Loops in PHP

PHP

By Christopher Pitt, September 09, 2015

Christopher Pitt introduces event loops - non-blocking async calls in PHP code, akin to Javascript. Can event loops breathe new life into PHP's performance?