One of the greatest additions to PHP environment is Composer. Together with packagist.org provides enormous amount of packages for every PHP developer. I know, PHP had package manager before it was cool (I'm talking about you PEAR) but Composer was something everyone was waiting for.

When I started to learn Docker I made a mistake and instead of learning basic commands, I jumped into Docker Compose. I was so eager to use it that I missed all what's important. So I took a step back and forced myself into command line interface. After many images I created and lot of container I was experimenting with I finally got it.

Ever since I started building websites I always used some kind of AMP stack. As my skills grew my stack was growing with it. First problems occurred when we had two major versions of PHP out in the wild - 4 and 5. After a while problems were piling up as I was adding Redis, Mongo, APC, Memcached, Elasticsearch and other popular tools to my stack.

You got your fresh Raspberry Pi but you lack external keyboard, mouse and monitor? Don't worry there an easy way to configure your pretty microcomputer. All you need is a little patience and some beer.