Anyone who reads my frequent pleas to involve yourself in the community knows that I’m a big fan of community development of open source projects. PHP is one of the world’s largest open source projects. And if I haven’t convinced you yet that you need to contribute, perhaps this will help encourage you.

The PHP Community is a fairly large, rules-free community of people who share a common interest in programming. Many of us hang out on Twitter, our own blogs, or on IRC (usually on Freenode #phpc). So some events of the day certainly caught me by surprise.

One of the greatest things about the PHP community is the willingness of people to help one another. Picture this: you’ve got developers of all levels, working in the same room. They’ve been tasked with working on various open source projects. Only in PHP do you see expert level developers like Eli White, Matthew Turland [...]

My article from last week, “On Code Commenting and Technical Debt” raised a lot of response throughout the community. I think that discussion is great, and I’m all for a debate that enhances the community. But I feel as though my argument has been taken a bit out of context.