@phpdublin Who am I? Ken Guest https://about.me/kenguest Twitter @kenguest Web Developer at the Irish Times PEAR guy Services_OpenStreetMap 15 years of developing projects in PHP.
And what is Phing? PHing Is Not Gnu make https://www.phing.info/ A cross platform build tool written in PHP. Automation. Gear yourself for efficiency. DRY v WET. @phpdublin
And what can Phing do? Lint your code (php, javascript, xml) Run unit tests: phpunit, simpletest, behat Codesniffer Copy and Mess detectors Optimise images Minify javascript/css Transfer files (rsync, ftp, scp) Database migrations (dbdeploy, pdosqlexec) Modify ini files natively Git, SVN tasks Etc And it's in PHP? Yes. You can create custom tasks. @phpdublin
What projects use it? joind.in OpenDAM (Digital Asset Management - https://github.com/martin-wikipixel/openDAM) Semantic Scuttle (social bookmarking) And many others https://github.com/reload/phing-drupal-template How to use it? From phpStorm, TextMate or NetBeans 8.1 From command line From Continuous Integration: Jenkins, Travis etc @phpdublin