• "Cleared for Takeoff: Getting Off the Ground with Flight" (ndrew Podner)
• "Learning How to Learn" (Joel Clermont)
• "Avoiding System Dependency by Decoupling Your Dev Environment" (Jacques Woodcock)
• "Education Station: Simple HTTP Clients with Guzzle" (Matthew Setter)

You can pick up this single issue for $4.99 USD or you can subscribe to the full year of PDFs for $35 USD.

You may already be familiar with Git, but did you know that it can rewrite time itself? GitHubber Ben Straub explains all in this month's issue, which also features tutorials on extracting XML data from RSS, using Composer to manage project dependencies and using the PHP Content Repository. If you've ever thought about starting a PHP user group, Atlanta PHP User Group co-organiser Kevin Roberts shares his secrets - plus, there's our regular columns on agile, big data and testing.

Articles included in this latest issue include:

• "Change the Past" (Ben Straub)
• "Why do User Groups?" (Kevin Roberts)
• "Sprint Retrospective Primer" (Steffan Surdek)
• "Urban Legends and Error Handling" (Stefan Priebsch)
• "Managing your project's dependencies with Composer" (Jefersson Nathan de O. Chaves)

As always, this issue is available free of charge and can be downloaded directly from their site.

The April issue is out and it's all about Security! We cover the gambit of topics including two-factor authentication, password hashing and securing file uploads. All our regular columns also appear, making this a jam-packed magazine full of PHP goodness.

Articles in this month's edition include:

• Securing File Uploads - Chris Tankersley
• Best Practices for Password Hashing in PHP - John Congdon
• Security-driven Development - Beth Tucker-Long
• When a Password Isn't Enough: Two-factor Authentication and You - Chris Stone

Check out the php|architect site for more info on picking up your own copy.

• Building APIs in Zend Framework 2 (Chris Tankersley)
• Good API Design Is Not a Fairy Tale (Keith Casey)
• API Documentation and Testing with I/O Docs (Jason McCreary)
• Education Station: Fix Poorly Written Legacy Code with PHP-CS-Fixer (Matthew Setter)
• (Re)Introducing Magento: Configuration XML (Ben Marks)

You can pick up this single issue for about $5 USD or you can subscribe for a full 12 issues (PDF edition).

• "The Power of PECL" by Simon Holywell
• "Be 'ready' if you want to be done!" by Steffan Surdek
• "All Data is Relational" by Cory Isaacson
• "Fixing PHP Production Problems with APM" by Dan Delany and Chris Kelly
• "Trust" by Sebastian Bergmann

You can download your copy for free from their site and catch up on back issues.

• "Running a PHP User Group" (John Congdon)
• "I'm the Organizer, Now What?" (Chris Stone)
• "Hackathons: Five Steps to Awesome Sauce" (Matthew Davis)
• "The Case For Open Source Software Contribution" (Andrew Podner)
• "Bug Zapper: ZendFormForm a New Friend?" (Bart McLeod)

You can order a single issue for about $5 USD or you can get a full year's subscription for just $35 USD. To check out some of the back issues, take a look in their archives.

I upgraded PHP and related pecl modules on my development machine today, and ran into a problem with Gearman. Actually I ran into more than one! Firstly the challenge of getting the newest pecl version working with a gearman version. Then an error where my existing PHP application couldn't connect to gearman after upgrade.

Running on Ubuntu, she found this tutorial helpful in getting Gearman back into a working state and installed (version 1.1.1). The "unable to connect" error turned out to be a change in how the Gearman connection needed to be made - the addition of a port to the connection string made things work again.

I want to provide a simple and efficient way to check for vulnerabilities in a project and I want to serve more than just the Symfony community. That's why I'm really proud to announce a new SensioLabs initiative: a simple way to check if your project depends on third-party libraries with known security issues. The website explains how it works in details (https://security.sensiolabs.org/), but basically, this initiative gives you several ways to check for security issues in your project dependencies based on the information contained in you composer.lock file (you are using Composer to manage your dependencies, right?)

Composer users can upload their "composer.lock" file and the system will evaluate it against the vulnerabilities it knows about and return any issues it might find. The current database is hosted on github and can be added to by anyone using a pull request. Additionally, you can install the command-line version if you want to do checks locally.

• "PHP in the Cloud" By Frédéric Harper
• "Develop your Agile mindset" By Steffan Surdek
• "Database Indexing part 2" By Cory Isaacson
• "Presenting For Geeks eBook teaser" By Dirk Haun
• "Level Crossings and Traffic Jams" By Stefan Priebsch

As always, you can pick up this issue for free by either registering or logging into your account. You can also get the back issues from the site too for more great reading.

• "Coding Conventions" from Andrew Podner
• "Properly Documenting Your Code" by Chris Tankersley
• "Testing in PHP" by Jeff Carouth
• "Education Station: Markup? Markdown!" by Matthew Setter
• "Shop Talk: (Re)Introducing Magento" from Ben Marks

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