The SitePoint Web blog has posted an interesting article sharing something called The Code Manifesto. The "code" referenced here isn't so much related to the actual code developers write as it is the conduct they follow in their relationships with others (on a professional level).

The tech industry has a rather bad reputation. Stories of discrimination, disrespect, sexism and outright mistreatment aren't exactly hard to come by. [...] In an industry ostensibly aimed at helping everyone to reach their potential, it's clear that when it comes to issues of equality and respect, the tech world has a long way to go. Kayla Daniels is one person working to try to change this situation. A North Carolina PHP developer, Kayla is behind The Code Manifesto, a list of values she hopes can be a small step in the right direction.

Among the points made in the manifesto are things like:

• Discrimination limits us.
• We are our biggest assets. None of us were born masters of our trade.
• Respect defines us. Treat others as you wish to be treated.
• Reactions require grace.

The Manifesto was born out of the frustration felt by Kayla in her work in technology. The six points are designed to help with two main things: respect and equality and contributing to the community...all as equals.

The SitePoint PHP blog has a new post by Jeroen Meeus that wonders if MVC is a solution or a problem when it comes to developing web applications.

Repositories, Adapters, MVC with all it cousins, SOLID, RTFM… As a (PHP) developer, those words are thrown at you from every corner of the web. And I hate it, I've had enough. Stop telling me what to do and show me those kittens instead. [...] When solving the web-application problem, we are forced to use MVC. The dev community often frowns upon those who don't use it, but seldom lets those they're frowning upon ask why. [...] MVC doesn't solve the Code complexity problem. It doesn't solve the code reuse or no-flexibility problem either. And it doesn't guarantee decoupled code.

He goes on to talk about how design patterns don't "solve problems". Rather they help us as developers by providing a best practice we can follow to get the job done. He suggests, though, that MVC has become "the new Singleton" but it has been used so much in so many different ways, it's boarding on the point of being abused.

Depending on the situation, and the problem at hand, different patterns can help you write robust, secure and understandable code. Just be careful using them - if you catch yourself using the MVC pattern for a 1-pager, ctrl+a del.

Curious about the usage of the various "internal" (built-in, not user defined) functions in use is a wide range of PHP applications, Joshua Thijssen did some research on GitHub and has shared the results on his site today.

How many internal PHP functions (things like count(), strpos(), array_merge() etc), does PHP have? Depending on which version you use, and how many extensions you have loaded, somewhere between 1000 and 2000 would be a good guess. But how many of these internal functions are you REALLY using?

He created a custom script to fetch the results of a custom query (one that found repos with over fifty stars), grabbed the source and parsed the results looking for these internal functions. He shares the results of his parsing from 967 repos in the remainder of the post, including: the top ten most called, some interesting facts found in the results and some of the "bad" ones in wide use (like "exec" and "mysql_connect").

Matt Frost (one of the two hosts on the Loosely Coupled podcast) has a new post to his site about some of his own experiences and advice around avoiding burnout.

Writing software is an incredibly gratifying profession; the idea that you can take a problem and find creative solutions through the use of technology is what drives a lot of us forward. What happens though when the drive is gone? What happens when that nifty little side project, training course, blog post or book goes from being nifty to being a drudgery? I came to this point a number of months ago and stayed there for a while, having now come out of this funk there are some things I learned that I'd like to share.

He talks about some of his own trouble with burnout, the project he was involved in and what it taught him about dealing with it (and life in general). He gives some sensible advice including "don't sit at your desk all day" and "prioritize things". The advice is simple and to the point - avoiding burnout is something only you can do for yourself. Waiting for things to "just get better" isn't going to work.

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• mamuz/mamuz-content-manager (0.1.3) Provides simple content manager for ZF2 with Doctrine
  
  
• mamuz/mamuz-blog (0.2.2) Provides simple product owner blog feature for ZF2 with Doctrine
  
  
• components/typeahead.js (0.10.4) typeahead.js is a fast and fully-featured autocomplete library
  
  
• oro/doctrine-extensions (1.0.0) Doctrine Extensions for MySQL and PostgreSQL.
  
  
• rmasters/github-service-provider (v0.2.0, 0.2.0, 0.1.0) Pimple service provider for KnpLabs' GitHub API wrapper
  
  
• solution10/collection (v1.2.0) A simple and fast Collection class
  
  
• devitek/torrent-fake-seeder (0.1) Fake a torrent's seed
  
  
• laracasts/validation (1.2.2, 1.2.1, 1.2.0) Easy validation for Laravel applications.
  
  
• elnebuloso/phing-commons (6.2.0) phing commons build stack
  
  
• iyoworks/entity (v1.0.0-beta) Entity classes with attribute types
  
  
• neopangea/utils (v0.0.5, v0.0.4, v0.0.3) PHP utility library
  
  
• ma27/silex-extension (v1.0.0) This is an extension for silex which provides better structures
  
  
• typo3/cms-base-distribution (6.2.0, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.2.3, 6.2.4) TYPO3 CMS Base Distribution
  
  
• cleentfaar/slack-bundle (0.9.4) This bundle provides integration with the CLSlack library
  
  
• dragosprotung/sport-tracker-connector (0.2.0) A set of tools to dump / upload / port workouts from different online sport trackers to another (ex endomondo.com, flow.polar.com).
  
  
• kherge/file (1.0.0) An extension of SplFileObject that uses exceptions.
  
  
• mediasilo/phoenix-php-sdk (0.6.3)
  
  
• voilab/acedao (0.9.8, 0.9.7) AceDAO, a simple yet powerful query system
  
  
• tomaj/prepositioner (1.1.3) Preposition replace library
  
  
• kisma/kisma (0.2.51) PHP Utility Belt
  
  
• netgusto/bootcamp-bundle (1.0.9, 1.0.8) Symfony2 BootCamp Bundle
  
  
• techdivision/http (0.1.3, 0.1.2, 0.1.1) HTTP protocol implementation for usage in server context
  
  
• itlized/zurb-foundation (v5.3.1) Zurb Foundation Bundle For Symfony
  
  
• jaenmedina/paypal-api-caller (1.0) An API caller for PayPal.
  
  
• itlized/social (v2.1.1.2) Social Bundle For Symfony based on HybridAuth
  
  
• packaged/helpers (v0.1.0)
  
  
• inxilpro/zit (2.0.0) Zit is a simple dependency injector based heavily on Pimple. It aims to provide the same simplicity as Pimple while offering a slightly more robust object interface.
  
  
• lavender/lavender (v0.7.0) jade-esque templates for PHP 5.3
  
  
• itbz/fpdi (1.5.2-patch1) Unofficial PSR-0 compliant version of the FPDI library
  
  
• flying/struct (0.2.11, 0.2.10) Implementation of generic structures
  
  
• odesk/phystrix-dashboard (v1.0.0) Hystrix dashboard support for Phystrix
  
  
• understand/understand-laravel (v0.0.3, v0.0.2, v0.0.1) Laravel service provider for Understand.io
  
  
• voceconnect/lift-search (1.9.7) Lift leverages the search index power of Amazon CloudSearch to improve your WordPress-powered site's search experience. Learn more at: http://getliftsearch.com
  
  
• ministryofjustice/opg-core-public-domain-model (1.0.22.1) Domain model for the OPG Core project
  
  
• hrevert/ht-mobile-template-module (0.0.3, 0.0.2) A Zend Framework 2 module to based on Mobile-Detect library to easily use different templates for mobiles, tablets etc.
  
  
• appserver-io/build (0.1.2, 0.1.1) Generic build- and deployment targets
  
  
• ajimix/asana-api-php-class (2.4.3, 2.4.2) A PHP class that acts as wrapper for Asana API. Lets make things easy! :)
  
  
• bhoeting/navigation-builder (1.3) A Blade helper to easily create Navigation HTML.
  
  
• joefallon/phpscalars (v1.0.2) This package contains a set of classes for wrapping/boxing scalar values. Also, classes are provided for working with arbitrarily large integers and arbitrarily precise floating point numbers.
  
  
• site5/phantoman (v1.0.0) The Codeception extension for automatically starting and stopping PhantomJS when running tests.
  
  
• 3rdpartyeve/perry (1.5.0) A PHP Library to access EVE Online's CREST API
  
  
• dsawardekar/arrow (1.4.0) WordPress Plugin Development Library
  
  
• techdivision/rewritemodule (0.6.2) A simple rewrite module for PHP based web servers.
  
  
• nlsh/nlsh_kleingartenverwaltung (0.3.2) Contao module to invoise a garden club
  
  
• bread/rest (v0.6.19) Bread REST framework
  
  
• experience/laracart (0.2.0) Laravel shopping cart, with support for multiple product types, guest carts, and more.
  
  
• hrevert/ht-day-module (0.0.1) Zend Framework 2 integration for day-of-week library
  
  
• bepado/sdk (v1.5.45) The PHP Software Development Kit for Shop developers.
  
  
• tijsverkoyen/css-to-inline-styles (1.5.1, 1.5.0, 1.4.4, 1.4.3, 1.4.2) CssToInlineStyles is a class that enables you to convert HTML-pages/files into HTML-pages/files with inline styles. This is very useful when you're sending emails.
  
  
• stefano/stefano-tree (1.3.3) Library for managing tree structures
  
  
• bycedric/inquiry (v0.1.0) A Laravel URI syntax parser, designed for REST apis.
  
  
• lotaris/rox-client-phpunit (v0.1.0) PHPUnit client for submitting test results to ROX Center.
  
  
• techdivision/persistencecontainerprotocol (0.2.1) Implements the native Persistence-Container protocol.
  
  
• techdivision/connection (0.1.1) Connection abstract layer implementation for usage in server context
  
  
• aracademia/lightning (1.0) Create Laravel forms with a single line of code
  
  
• ufirst/lang-import-export (1.0.0-beta) A Laravel package providing artisan commands to import and export language files from and to CSV.
  
  
• techdivision/appserver (0.9.1) Thread based PHP daemon to implement stuff like message queues.
  
  
• techdivision/websocketprotocol (0.2.1) Provides a web socket connection handler.
  
  
• techdivision/application (0.2.1) A threaded application implementation to allow a separate context for each application.
  
  
• stefano/stefano-db (1.4.0) Db Modul extend Zend Framework 2
  
  
• techdivision/configuration (0.1.2) Basic XML based configuration implementation.
  
  
• techdivision/servlet (0.6.1) Servlet package default implementation.
  
  
• techdivision/context (0.5.9) Context package default implementation.
  
  
• techdivision/collections (0.1.1) Package that provides basic PHP collections and utilities.
  
  
• cargomedia/cm (1.56.0)
  
  
• umisoft/umi.framework (1.0.1) UMI.Framework Version 1
  
  
• techdivision/fastcgimodule (0.1.2) A Fast-CGI module for a php webserver
  
  
• techdivision/webserver (0.2.1) Multithreaded webserver for php written in php
  
  
• techdivision/lang (0.1.1) Lang package implementation providing basic PHP datatypes.
  
  
• tomkyle/databases (1.0.8, 1.0.7) Creates generic connections to common database APIs, provided by easy-to-use connection factories. For multiple databases, a Service Locator helps you creating those factories.
  
  
• data-dog/php-nsq (0.2.2, 0.2.1) NSQ publisher for PHP
  
  
• aboutyou/app-sdk (0.9.7) ABOUT YOU app SDK
  
  
• cog/stupidmqbundle (2.2.2, 2.1.2, 2.4.3) stupid message queue bundle for sf2
  
  
• typo3/typo3-cms-base-distribution (6.2.0, 6.2.1, 6.2.2, 6.2.3, 6.2.4) TYPO3 CMS Base Distribution
  
  
• asgoodasnu/guzzlecommandclient (v0.4) Guzzle Client for Symfony2
  
  
• phirational/laravel-conditional-seeder (1.0.2) Laravel trait providing methods for conditional database seeding.
  
  
• simplyadmire/composer-plugins (1.0.2) Composer plugin for installing PHP_CodeSniffer standards
  
  
• martin-kozianka/contao-opengraph (0.3.4) Opengraph
  
  
• league/flysystem (0.5.3) Filesystem abstraction, but easy.
  
  
• datasift/storyplayer (1.5.4) Bring your user and service stories to life through test automation
  
  
• treehouselabs/keystone-bundle (v1.0.0) A Symfony2 implementation of the OpenStack Identity Service API: Keystone
  
  
• davidyell/seo (0.1.0) A CakePHP plugin for managing SEO
  
  
• nanapi/cakephp-cloud-search (1.1.1) Amazon CloudSearch DataSource Plugin for CakePHP
  
  
• fenos/rally (1.0.10) Followers system for laravel 4
  
  
• oneup/contao-full-background-images (v1.1.0) Use full background images in Contao Open Source CMS. This extension also provides a full background image slider/fader.
  
  
• mohammad-mahdy/yii2-jdate (0.7) Jalali date & time.
  
  
• shuttlelang/shuttle-php (0.22) Shuttle-php
  
  
• clubmaster/formextra (1.18) ClubMaster form extra.
  
  
• greg0ire/enum-bundle (1.0.0) Integrates greg0ire/enum in a Symfony2 project
  
  
• webtoucher/yii2-migrate (v1.0.1) Yii 2 extension for creating and running migrations
  
  
• antoineaugusti/laravel-sentiment-analysis (v1.1.0) A Laravel wrapper that performs sentiment analysis over an English sentence
  
  
• avocode/form-extensions-bundle (v0.1.5) Add additional form types to symfony2
  
  
• symfony2admingenerator/form-extensions-bundle (v0.1.5) Add additional form types to symfony2
  
  
• naonaox1126/vizualizer_twitter (v1.3.17) Visual Framework in PHP
  
  
• kinglozzer/multiselectfield (1.0.2, 1.0.1, 1.0.0) A sortable multiple select field for managing many-to-many relations
  
  
• ipunkt/laravel-route-cache (1.0.2, 1.0.1, 1.0.0) Simple Cache for Laravel Routes sending 304 and cached static content
  
  
• networking/init-cms-sandbox (2.5.0) the "Symfony Standard Edition" distribution with the networking init CMS bundle configured
  
  
• parsleyjs/parsleyjs (2.0.3) JavaScript form validation with DOM API
  
  
• oe/housenum-be-r-parser (0.1.0) Splitter and Merger for Belgian housenumbers
  
  
• eazy/cache (0.1.1) The Eazy Cache Component
  
  
• elcodi/elcodi (v0.1.12) Barebones Ecommerce functionality for Symfony
  
  
• contao-community-alliance/dc-general (2.0.0-beta15) Universal data container for Contao
  
  
• raymondidema/commandee (3.0) Command/Event Dispatcher
  
  
• ephect/simpleprofiler (v0.1.2, v0.1.1, v0.1.0) A simple profiler tool that helps track execution time and memory usage.
  
  
• mollie/reseller-api (1.5.0) Mollie Reseller API
  
  
• bllim/datatables (v1.4.1) Server-side handler of DataTables Jquery Plugin for Laravel 4
  
  
• pingpong/modules (1.0.8) Laravel 4 - Simple Modules
  
  
• martin-kozianka/contao-fussball (0.4.2) Contao Fussball - Erweiterung zur Verwaltung eines Amateurvereins
  
  
• aquanode/formation (v0.6.0) A powerful form creation composer package for Laravel 4.
  
  
• icecave/repr (1.0.1) A library for generating string representations of any value, inspired by Python's reprlib library.
  
  
• xethron/migrations-generator (v1.2.2) Generates Laravel Migrations from an existing database
  
  
• jacobstr/matura (v0.1.1) A mocha/rspec inspired testing framework for php.
  
  

If you're a part of a development team anywhere, chances are at one point or another you've asked for someone else to take a look at your code and give their opinions. Maybe it was you looking over a coworker's latest addition and it was...somewhat lacking. How can you say it in a constructive and nice way? The Inviqa techPortal has some suggestions.

Feedback on performance matters. It not only maintains quality, refines and hones performance, but it can also improve morale and trust, and build relationships. It can stop minor problems from escalating into major capability issues. It's something that every people manager or team leader should be doing as standard, and yet it's so hard to get right. For some people, giving good feedback is easy. [...] Delivering negative feedback can be a tricky process so how do you give negative feedback, or (as the much hackneyed phrase would have it) "constructive" feedback?

The post includes a list of six things to think about as you provide feedback to other developers (and even as a manager to your employees). The list suggests things like making it timely, listening to their side of things and setting a plan for resolving the issue.

Following several other posts with the "common mistakes PHP developers make" theme, Bruno Skvorc has posted his own list of seven things he sees developers doing over and over.

Back at the end of June, TopTal, the freelance marketplace, published a post about 10 Most Common Mistakes PHP Programmers Make. The list wasn't exhaustive, but it was well written and pointed out some very interesting pitfalls one should be wary of - even if I wouldn't personally list the mistakes as very common. I encourage you to give it a thorough read - it has some truly valuable information you should be aware of - especially the first eight points.

His additions to the list of common mistakes includes:

• Using the mysql extension
• Not rewriting URLs
• Assigning in Conditions
• Being Too Transparent

You can read the full list and summaries of each in the rest of the post.