TL;DR: use Facade Design Pattern to simplify usage of a complex subsystems and reduce number of dependencies your code has

During recent Design Patterns training I've attended at Inviqa (delivered by @_md) we had quite emotional discussion about differences between Facade and Adapter patterns (which are intuitively different but it was hard to understand why). This discussion led me to this blog post and I'd like to summarise our conclusions.

During PhpSpec & PhpStorm webinar recorded together with JetBrains I've mentioned couple of times how Live Templates can speed up your development.

Personally on daily basis I'm using templates I've created for PhpSpec and shared after the webinar but since then I've improved those and would like to share it with you guys.

TL;DR: adding @mixin annotation to your specifications you will give you SUS auto-completion.

Dealing with resource-consuming tasks in PHP can affect performance or even make you lose money because of poor user experience. Fortunately there are strategies for dealing with such problems and one of these is queueing.

In this session we will focus on what RabbitMQ is, how it works, how we can use it with PHP and integrate it with Symfony2 applications. After this talk you will have an idea of where you can apply queues in your system, and then make them fly and scale!