Bruno Skvorc

Bruno Skvorc takes you through the step by step process of building a Chrome extension for Trello - in this part, bootstrap and build authentication!

PhpMetrics is a code quality analysis tool that shows you info about your project in a beautifully mathematical way, with intricate graphs and charts!

In this article, we will talk about VarDump. Symfony VarDumper is a component designed to replace your var_dumps, It’s the var_dump you’ve always wanted.

While not exactly good practice, it's good to know desktop apps can be built with PHP. Bruno Škvorc lists three popular ways to do it.

Facebook recently released OSQuery - a way to inspect your operating system's state with SQL as if it were a relational database. See how!

Bruno reviews Brandon Savage's book "Practical Design Patterns in PHP" - a book of in depth explanations of over a dozen software design patterns

This week marks the release of PhpStorm 8. Now that the day has finally come, Bruno Škvorc takes a look at what new features are included, and finish up with a giveaway of free licenses.

StackEdit has reached a new milestone version - 4.0. See what's new, how to run it locally, and how to enable multiple instances!

Bruno Škvorc looks at the differences between Processing.js, the JS interpreter for Processing, and P5.js, a full Processing port in JS

Diffbot is a machine learning algorithm which relies on visual information - it parses content visually and determines parts of it as a human would.

This post will show you how to install custom PHP extensions into Zend Server 7. The tutorial focuses on Phalcon, but applies to all extensions.

In this post, we'll take a look at Zend Server 7 - what it brings to the table, what it impresses with, and where it falls short.

Here are seven mistakes PHP developers often do - from wrong database drivers to too much transparency, read this list to find out what you shouldn't do

Beegit is a new collaborative markdown editor for the browser. How does it stack up against champions like StackEdit? Read this post and find out!

Themosis is a new plugin for WordPress which enables MVC-powered plugin development for WP with rigid Laravel-like structure

Is it possible to get eZ Publish up and running in a Vagrant box hosted on Windows? Let's find out.

Here's how you get XDebug to work though PHPStorm across a Vagrant layer all the way to your PHP app. Don't let virtual machines impede your debugging!

Get a Homestead VM up and running in under a couple of minutes on any platform

Ever wondered how you can install PHP extensions from source? Bruno Škvorc explains in this step by step tutorial.

Stress-test your app with ApacheBench - a tool designed to nuke your application with as many requests as you tell it to - see how strong your server is.

Heard of Laravel Homestead? It's Laravel's official local development environment based on Vagrant, configured by Taylor Otwell. See why you should use it.

PHP 5.6 released its last beta version - beta 4. Learn what's new and how you can help test it in this article!

Google BigQuery now hosts GDELT - the world's largest dataset on human history - and it's free to use.

What's PHPNG? Who's leading it and how does it stack up against HHVM and Zephir?

An introduction to creating a client-server dart app: setting up the environment, making sure we have the latest SDK, and going over some Dart basics.

Learn to deploy your first Laravel application on Nitrous.io - the cloud development environment

Some of the best productivity hacks for PhpStorm - the PHP IDE

PHP The Right Way was published in book form on Leanpub. Buying is optional, but helps the Electronic Frontiers Foundation.

Horizontal scaling of databases in PHP applications - the how and why of master-slave replication

What can we expect if HHVM replaces Zend Engine in PHP 6? What are the possible pros and cons?