Colin O’Dell Software Engineer SeatGeek Maryland, US

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colinodell/cookiecache

cookiecache is a distributed PSR-16 cache implementation for PHP 6 that stores your cached data in browser cookies, saving hundreds of valuable bytes of server memory.

Every visitor gets their own private copy of the cache, entries are capped at 4096 bytes, and the contents are fully readable and writable by anyone who cares to open their developer tools. It also has a known deserialization vulnerability. Released on April 1st under the April Fools Public License — please do not use this.

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colinodell/indentation

indentation is a PHP library to detect and manipulate the indentation of files and strings.

Point it at a file and it’ll tell you whether that file uses tabs or spaces and how many of them. From there you can convert between styles, add leading indentation to every line (handy for embedding code samples into Markdown), or strip the common indentation back off again.

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Podcast

PHP Town Hall

Here lies dynamic properties. They were good properties Brent.

Matt and Ben are joined by Colin O'Dell, staff engineer at Wayfair and supporter of the twitter dividing Dynamic Properties RFC to discuss what this RFC really means for PHP going forward and if its really a good idea.

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Demystifying Unicode

Longhorn PHP 20211 hour

ASCII is so 1963. Nowadays, computers must support a broad range of different characters beyond the 128 we had in the early days of computing - not just accents and emojis but also completely different writing systems used around the globe. The Unicode standard packs a whopping 143,859 characters into an elegant system used by over 95% of the Internet, but PHP's string functions don't play nicely with Unicode by default, making it difficult for developers to properly handle such a wide array of possible user inputs.

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Releasing High-Quality PHP Packages

Longhorn PHP 20211 hour

Releasing open-source libraries is more than sharing your GitHub URL with the world. There are many considerations and steps involved especially for successful and long-lived projects.

In this talk, we’ll cover the principles behind creating, releasing, and maintaining high-quality libraries. Topics will include structuring the repository, implementing modern PHP standards, maintaining changelogs, using CI tests, releasing new versions, and more.

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