Clean Code, Technical Debt, Mockery, Toxic Tech, and more In this Issue Treasures, Old & New includes articles on: Up to My Eyeballs in Technical Debt! by Steve Grunwell The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Your Code by Bryce Embry Moving a Monolith to AWS by Keanan Koppenhaver Easier …
By Ondrej Mirtes When developing an application, our aim as software developers is to make sure it does what it ought to do and to keep the number of defects as low as possible. We should also strive to make our lives easier, to counter external circumstances like tight deadlines and ever-changing requirements …
In this Episode Our hosts, Eric van Johnson and John Congdon dive into Testing in Practice and the April 2018 issue of php[architect] magazine. Share your thoughts on the topics covered and leave a comment below. Topics Eric and John discuss unit testing, test suites, static analysis, authentication with …
PHP Unit, Mocker, Testing PHP, Type hints, and more In this Issue Testing in Practice collects articles on: PHPUnit Worst Practices by Victor Bolshov Easier Mocking with Mockery by Robert Basic Testing Strategy With the Help of Static Analysis by Ondrej Mirtes Evolved PHP by Chris Pitt …
In this Episode Our hosts, Eric van Johnson and John Congdon look at Long Running PHP the March 2018 issue of php[architect] magazine. Share your thoughts on the topics covered and leave a comment below. Topics Eric and John go over the March features about writing daemons with PHP, Linux containers beyond …
By Chris Tankersley Code reviews are one of the best ways to help a team ensure they’re writing the best code possible. In all of the jobs where we have done peer-lead code reviews, we have caught more bugs and had better discussions about code than in places or times where we just hammer code through the approval …
PHP Daemons, Evolving PHP, Containers, Accessibility, and more In this Issue Long Running PHP includes articles on: PHP Daemons and Long-Running Processes by Tim Lytle Evolving PHP by Chris Pitt Containers Are a Pile of Lies! Part Two by Larry Garfield Hands on With Accessibility by …
In this episode Eric and John dive into the Know Your Tools issue for the month of February 2018 . Share your thoughts on the topics covered and leave a comment below. Topics Eric and John go over the February features on containers, tools, Drupal, Symfony, Search with Scout, and more. Oscar talks with …
By Edward Barnard The basics can be tricky. This month we take a careful walk-through of a few lines of cryptographic code in PHP. This leads us through the difference between ones’ complement and two’s complement representation. We achieve weirdness by combining logical AND with integer addition. Thirty-five …
Containers, Drupal, Symfony, Laravel Scout, and more In this Issue Know Your Tools includes articles on: Containers Are a Pile of Lies! Part One by Larry Garfield Drupal for Symfony Developers by Antonio Perić-Mažar Love/Hate—The Dysfunctional Relationship We Have With Tools by Shahina Patel …
In this episode A look at the Setting Up to Succeed issue for the month of January 2018 featuring articles to start the new year right. Share your thoughts on the topics covered and leave a comment below. Topics Eric and John discuss the January features on background processing with queues, securing your …
By Jeremy Dorn PHP Sessions are often taken for granted. A session is a magic array which persists across page loads and holds user-specific data. It’s a fantastic and integral part of most web applications. But when misused, sessions can cause substantial security holes, performance and scalability problems, and …
Worker Queues, Async with Generators, and PHP Sessions in Depth In this Issue Setting Up to Succeed includes articles on: Background Processing & Concurrency With PHP by Matthew Schwartz Securing Your Site in Development and Beyond by Michael Akopov Don’t Wait; Generate! by Ian Littman …
In this episode A look at the Talking Code issue for the month of December 2017 issue featuring articles on building an Alexa voice skill and chatbots with Laravel’s Botman project. Share your thoughts on the topics covered and leave a comment below. Topics Eric and John discuss the December features on …
By Eric Mann By the time you read this, the PHP community should have introduced the world to the newest version of our favorite language. This latest version adds better support for type annotations, allows trailing commas in lists (just like JavaScript and other dynamic languages) and introduced several security …
Welcome In this episode, we dive into the November 2017 issue and how to use Magento as your ecommerce platform. Have a thought on the topics covered? Let us know with a comment below. Topics Eric and John go over November’s articles on debugging and contributing to Magento, headless applications, payment …
Building Voice and Chatbot Interfaces In this Issue Talking Code includes articles on: Chatbots and PHP by Katy Ereira Artificial Intelligence (AI)—The Future of Internet Services by Kesha Williams Command and Query API Design in Magento 2 by Michiel Rook Learning Machine Learning, …
Modern eCommerce with Magento In this Issue Modern Magneto includes articles on: 11 Debugging Tricks in Magento by Sergii Kovalenko Editing the Magento Core For Fun and Profit by Joshua Warren Command and Query API Design in Magento 2 by Igor Miniailo Headless and Serverless: Writing …
Welcome In this episode, we dive into the October 2017 issue and how to use Composer to build a modern PHP application. Do you have a thought on the topics covered? Do you use queues obsessivley, or not? Let us know with a comment below. Topics Eric and John discuss October’s articles and what they learned …
By Andrew Cassell This article was published in the October 2017 issue of php[architect] magazine. You can see how it looks as part of the magazine in the Free Article PDF . Check out our subscription options to become one today. We have digital and print options starting at $4.99 per month. Using Composer …