Biweekly roundup: PHP.TO.START

The Turin PHP User Group has been growing in the last months and have now organized a free one-day conference on March 21st. I will be a speaker with a basic talk on automated testing of PHP applications.

I'm getting to know better the diffusion of PHP in Milan and Turin - cities where historically there was not much attention for this ecosystem. The message is clear: investing on PHP as one of the platforms you specialize in your career is not a dead end.

Here are my articles published in the last two weeks on DZone. The Practical PHP Refactoring series has ended, but I will always have space for PHP related articles.
Practical PHP Refactoring: Separate Domain from Presentation is one of the most necessary large-scale refactorings to perform on legacy code.
Bottle: a lightweight Python framework explains the first steps for developing a Python web application with Bottle.
Practical PHP Refactoring: Extract Hierarchy explains how to segregate the responsibilities of a God class.
Spam filtering with a Naive Bayes Classifier in R is a full-featured example of R usage for data mining.
Erlang's actor model explains one of the ways this language blows your mind.
The 7 habits of highly effective developers is an essay on a fluffy topic - which personal habits are beneficial to our job, solving problems?
Writing clean code in PHP 5.4 is a photograph of the new features of PHP and how they may be abused to write spaghetti code.

Our experience with Domain Events is a summary of how we have come to use Events as an additional Domain Model pattern in DDD.