Category PHP

The simplest plugin support

Stitcher’s plugin support is available as of stitcher 1.0.0-alpha5. In this post, you’ll read about Stitcher’s plugin system. It might get a bit technical, but is definitely worth the read. Stitcher plugins are built on top of two powerful components…

Stitcher alpha 4

A new alpha release has arrived for Stitcher! This release brings a lot of optimizations and bugfixes to many parts of Stitcher. The biggest changes are found in brendt/responsive-images, in which a lot of bugfixes and extra options are added.…

Tackling responsive images – part 2

In my previous post, I wrote about the idea behind integrating responsive images and Stitcher. A pretty robust library came to be. You could throw it any image, and it would generate a set of variations of that images, scaled…

Tackling responsive images – part 1

One of the main goals when I started with Stitcher was heavily optimized images. Looking at the HTTP Archive stats, it’s clear we’re doing something wrong. Luckily, the Responsive images spec has been made by a lot of smart people…

Build a PHP chatbot in 10 minutes

The chatbot topic is huge right now. Finally, there is something quite new again, and nobody knows what’s happening next. This is the perfect chance to start experimenting with chatbots and to build your own one right now. Give me…

Hello world, I am Laravel (5)

So there is this thing called Laravel. You may have heard of it already, but you’re not sure what it is actually about? Or you do, but want to know more about it and its great new features in version…