You know what an array is? Well there's Iterators and they act like arrays, only they're objects. And you can make a function that acts like an Iterator object, and that's a Generator.

OK then. We're done.

Wait, not done? OK.

Read on.

Beginner to Composer? Check out this article where we build a project using a framework from the command line, using only Composer!

Written to accompany a talk at DrupalCamp LA 2014: http://2014.drupalcampla.com/sessions/just-enough-composer-be-dangerous

Last week I gave a short talk at the Seattle PHP User Group. This meeting: http://www.meetup.com/seaphp/events/197182452/

The topic was contributing to open source projects. We had a talk from Jeremy Lindblom about how to do a pull request and other basic tools, and a talk from Kris Craig about contributing to PHP itself.

I tried to illustrate how the issue/patch process works on Drupal.org. Not sure how well I succeeded. :-)

Here's my Google doc my slide deck for any who are interested:

Some Context

In internet communities, there is often a question of how to deal with someone who is consistently rude or mean or troll-ish or what-have-you.

It's similar to having 'difficult' people in the workplace.

And it's also similar to the notion that sexism or other bigotry in the community leads to lack of diversity, because who wants to be around bigots?

These issues are different iterations of the same thing, with the third having a larger social scope.

My mom has a WordPress site.

Pantheon announced they host WordPress.

Time to move my mom's site to Pantheon... Read about how it went.

I'm in the market for a new laptop, which means I'm in the market for a new MacBook Pro (probably 13" non-Retina, because I like repairing things I own).

But the upshot here is that I want to document what it would take to install all my tools to a fresh new MacBook Pro. I'll update this when I actually get the machine and do the process.

My current machines are stuck at 10.7.5 for various and sundry reasons, so some of this stuff might not be needed when I get Mavericks.

So here's the list, roughly in installation order:

I just wanted to mention a thing I hacked together a little while ago. It's made it much easier to manage coding standards stuff. Your mileage may vary.

NetBeansDrupalComposed is a tiny Composer-based project that pulls in all the stuff you need to do coding standards reviews for Drupal.

Why?

I needed to install PHP 5.4 on an Ubuntu box, in order to mess around with Drupal 8.

It turns out, however, that Ubuntu only has PHP 5.3 as of 12.04 LTS. There are a few other options available at this point for 5.4 (and 5.5), but I wanted to experiment with phpenv and php-build.