patricklouys

Modern PHP is really nice to work with. I uploaded the sample code from my book on Github if you want to have a look (check inside the src directory).

https://github.com/PatrickLouys/professional-php-sample-code

Both ruby and python seem to encourage duck-typing. I worked with both of them in the past and that's the main reason why I always came back to PHP. I need my type declarations...

Did you write clean OOP code? You can still write bad code with it, no doubt about that.

I'm assuming he meant the dependency manager, which is really nice.

https://getcomposer.org/

PHP also supports other type declarations. But using lots of value objects is a good idea anyway.

http://php.net/manual/en/functions.arguments.php#functions.a...

Modern PHP is very nice to work with. Ignore the haters that haven't touched the language in 10 years.

Start with things that don't scale. Approach people directly.

Are you still doing that or back at a job?

Yeah some chapters were useless for me, but I still took away a lot from that book as a PHP developer.

Effective Java (lots of good generic OOP advice)

Implementing Domain Driven Design