the digital workshop of Matt Ferris
Feb 26, 2016
When basic unix permissions can't express the access requirements you need to impose on a filesystem, you need to turn to the more powerful Access Control List (ACL). Enabled by default on most filesystems in most Linux distributions these days, ACLs provide a rich toolset for handling complex permissions. While they may be intimidating at first, they are actually quite easy to understand.
Oct 21, 2015
Auth is an extensible authentication library for PHP. It offers a decoupled approach to authentication with a request/handler based architecture. It's still in alpha with version 0.1 just being made available.
Other PHP packages that have been updated are:
get(), post(), put(), etc.)May 4, 2015
Three new PHP libraries are available. DI is a dependency injection container. Events is an event dispatching/handling/logging library. HttpRouting is an HTTP request routing library. They are all available for installation via composer as mattferris/di, mattferris/events, and mattferris/http-routing respectively.
May 15, 2014
This minor release of aims is now available for download as a tgz and a .deb.
Changes in this release:
October 29, 2013
Snappify version 0.2 is now available for download. Changes in this version include:
September 15, 2013
The second major release of aims is now available for download as a tgz and a .deb.
This major version release brings many new changes:
Check out the all-new online documentation.
Febrary 25, 2013
The first release of snappify is now available for download. snappify is a *nix snapshot management utility.
January 31, 2013
The first release of Formation is now available for download. Formation is a PHP libary that makes validating form data easier.
January 27, 2013
When I started to apply the concepts of Domain-Driven Design to my projects, the decision of what entity to choose as the root of an aggregate seemed to be relatively straightforward. On smaller projects with simple domain models the choice can be fairly obvious, but on large projects or those with more complex domain models the choice is a lot less clear. Most likely, your aggregate roots will change along with refactoring of your model as you understanding of the domain improves.
January 20, 2013
LiveEdit version 0.2 is now available for download. Changes in this version are:
send data typeDecember 23, 2012
aims version 1.2 is now available for download as a tgz and a .deb.
Changes in this version are:
unload mode to flush rules (-V option to print the versionAs part of the 1.2 release, there is now online documentation for aims as well as new documentation for the aims module API.
December 15, 2012
Writing getters and setters sucks, especially if you have a lot of properties in your classes. A method I've used in the past is to create a Base class from which all other classes are extended. This base class uses the magic method __call() to provide virtual getters and setters.