I have been using git for quite a while now and am very comfortable with the bread and butter commands such as git clone, git commit. git pull, etc. I love the command line so using some aliases cuts down on typing and speeds up my commit workflow. My motto is commit often and commit small :)

This article explains how to migrate a SVN repository to Git. Although this guide uses BitBucket as the Git repository, you can easily adjust the steps to migrate to a different Git repository provider.

This article is cross posted from the Phalcon Blog

Recently I worked on setting up replication between our AWS RDS instance and a server running as a MySQL slave in our location. Although the task was not difficult, there are quite a few areas that one needs to pay attention to.

Traits are a mechanism for code reuse in single inheritance languages such as PHP.

A Trait is similar to a class, but only intended to group functionality in a fine-grained and consistent way. It is not possible to instantiate a Trait on its own. It is an addition to traditional inheritance and enables horizontal composition of behavior; that is, the application of class members without requiring inheritance. Source