+### Composer
+
+Friendica uses [Composer](https://getcomposer.org) to manage dependencies libraries and the class autoloader both for libraries and namespaced Friendica classes.
+
+It's a command-line tool that downloads required libraries into the `vendor` folder and makes any namespaced class in `src` available through the whole application through `boot.php`.
+
+* [Class autoloading](help/autoloader)
+* [Using Composer](help/Composer)
+* [How To Move Classes to `src`](help/Developer-How-To-Move-Classes-to-src)
+
+###Coding standards
+
+For the sake of consistency between contribution and general code readability, Friendica follows the widespread [PSR-2 coding standards](http://www.php-fig.org/psr/psr-2/) to the exception of a few rules.
+Here's a few primers if you are new to Friendica or to the PSR-2 coding standards:
+ * Indentation is tabs, period (not PSR-2).
+ * By default, strings are enclosed in single quotes, but feel free to use double quotes if it makes more sense (SQL queries, adding tabs and line feeds).
+ * Operators are wrapped by spaces, e.g. `$var === true`, `$var = 1 + 2` and `'string' . $concat . 'enation'`
+ * Braces are mandatory in conditions
+ * Boolean operators are `&&` and `||` for PHP conditions, `AND` and `OR` for SQL queries
+ * No closing PHP tag
+ * No trailing spaces
+
+Don't worry, you don't have to know by heart the PSR-2 coding standards to start contributing to Friendica.
+There are a few tools you can use to check or fix your files before you commit.
+
+For documentation we use the standard of *one sentence per line* for the `md` files in the `/doc` and `/doc/$lng` subdirectories.
+
+####Check with [PHP Code Sniffer](https://github.com/squizlabs/PHP_CodeSniffer)
+
+This tool checks your files against a variety of coding standards, including PSR-2, and ouputs a report of all the standard violations.
+You can simply install it through PEAR: `pear install PHP_CodeSniffer`
+Once it is installed and available in your PATH, here's the command to run before committing your work:
+
+ $> phpcs --standard=PSR2 <file or directory>
+
+The output is a list of all the coding standards violations that you should fix before committing your work.
+Additionally, `phpcs` integrates with a few IDEs (Eclipse, Netbeans, PHPStorm...) so that you don't have to fiddle with the command line.
+
+####Fix with PHP Code Beautifier and Fixer (phpbcf) included in PHP Code Sniffer
+
+If you're getting a massive list of standards violations when running `phpcs`, it can be annoying to fix all the violations by hand.
+Thankfully, PHP Code Sniffer is shipped with an automatic code fixer that can take care of the tedious task for you.
+Here's the command to automatically fix the files you created/modified:
+
+ $> phpcbf --standard=PSR2 <file or directory>
+
+If the command-line tools `diff` and `patch` are unavailabe for you, `phpcbf` can use slightly slower PHP equivalents by using the `--no-patch` argument.
+