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Long story short: I finally managed to get SSL certificate from “Let’s Encrypt” and automate the process of certificates renewal. And I would love to share my experience with you! What is “Let’s Encrypt”? “Let’s Encrypt” is the authority that provides free ssl certificates. This initiative is now supported by everyone, so it means that you really get trusted certificates. On December 3 they launched in public beta but unfortunately until yesterday I didn’t have time to fully use it. ...

Recently, I’ve come up with an interesting question that can potentially be used for interviewing candidates :) We have such a PHP class. class Collection implements Countable { protected $items = []; public function __construct(array $data) { $this->items = $data; } public function count() { return count($this->items); } } $collection = new Collection(['one', 'two', 'three']); Which is going to be faster: count($collection) or $collection->count()?

Well, hello! I finally managed to launch my website a month ago and now I launch blog! My blog is going to be absolutely technical one! And as I am PHP developer… Oh, you all know what my posts will be about :) Nice to see you all here! P.S. all posts are on Github. You can pull-request them to improve my grammar!

On the 18th of December 2014, I gave a talk about upcoming 5th version of Laravel. I spoke about new features of Laravel 5. Venue was DataArt @ Dnipropetrovsk.

December 4th, 2014. Odessa. IT Talk dedicated to PHP. I was there talking about Laravel. Very interesting audience, nice and interesting questions. Great conference. Unfortunately no record was made. Venue: DataArt @ Odessa.

Today I gave a talk on first PHP User Group in Dnipropetrovsk. I spoke about Laravel and all the main reasons why every PHP developer should at least try this cool framework. This was my very first speech at conference. I was quite nervous but still very excited about it! Unfortunately, we were unable to have the record. Venue of event: DataArt @ Dnipropetrovsk.