By Chris Tankersley The tech industry is always awash with new ideas that are actually old. One which gained traction in the last ten years is the idea of “DevOps.” This term is the combination of “Development” and “Operations” and is meant to show these two roles can be combined for more efficiency. Get the …
Day Camp 4 Developers If you’re selling widgets, offering a service, or publishing information a slow web page or application will cost you in the long run. User’s don’t wait and if your page takes too long to load, they’ll go somewhere else. Just one second slower will drop page views, customer satisfaction, and …
Your job doesn’t end when you finish writing and committing code. Someone has to ensure a web application is available online, scalable, and secure. This issue collects articles to help you improve and fine-tune your DevOps processes. The post DevOps Depths – January 2019 appeared first on php[architect] .
By Colin DeCarlo As applications scale and gain adoption, dates and time become much more of a concern than they once were. Bugs crop up, and developers start learning the woes of time zones and daylight saving time. Why did that reminder get sent a day early? How could that comment have been made at 5:30 a.m. if …
Practice and more practice are the keys to adopting modern software engineering practices. It doesn’t matter if you’re using WordPress or Drupal to manage website content, trying to learn unit testing, get hired, or looking for better ways to manage date and time data—there’s always an opportunity to learn how to do …
By Chris Holland In 2016, Ben Scholzen and Rasmus Schultz published their PHP RFC: Generic Types and Functions , aka The Generics RFC. Having worked with generics in other languages, I was very grateful and thrilled to come across this RFC, as I could immediately see the tremendous benefits this would bring …
In this Very Special Episode Eric Van Johnson, John Congdon, Chris Holland, and Oscar Merida recorded this episode live at php[world] just last week. Share your thoughts on the topics covered and leave a comment below. You can read Chris Holland’s The Case for Generics in PHP article online for free. Topics …
Providing a good foundation for your application pays off in the long run by reducing technical debt, finding bugs earlier, and making it faster to add features. This month we look at how generics could make your code concise, other new features you should be using, practices to keep your Laravel application easy to …
Generics in PHP, Maintainable Laravel, Starting with PHP, Project Success, security code reviews, and more In this Issue Generics and Project Success has articles on: The Case for Generics in PHP by Chris Holland. See how they would fit in PHP’s type system. Maintaining Laravel Applications by …
In this Episode Eric van Johnson and John Congdon wrapped up recording on episode 14. Share your thoughts on the topics covered and leave a comment below. Topics Eric and John talk about stickers (again), PHP internals, understanding framework trade offs, John explains MySQL 8 window functions, burning out, …
By Chris Tankersley The tech industry is a double-edged sword. On the one side, we (generally) have well-paying jobs with nice perks, but on the other, we can easily slip into not only boring, repetitive work but figurative death marches. The former is used by most companies as an offset to the latter, but that …
In this Episode Fresh off of hosting WavePHP in San Diego, Eric van Johnson and John Congdon put the finishing touches on the latest episode. Share your thoughts on the topics covered and leave a comment below. Topics Eric and John talk about stickers, forthcoming PHP 7.3 improvements like garbage collection, …
By Damien Seguy PHP 7.3 successfully passed the “feature freeze” deadline. On Aug. 1st, 2018 all features for PHP 7.3 were identified. This triggered the first PHP 7.3 beta, on the following day, and, from there, we’ll reach RC in September. It is time to review what this new PHP version has available for us, help …
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PHP 7.3 features, upgrading legacy code, Symfony Worfklow, estimates, Kahlan, RabbitMQ, and more In this Issue Magniphpicent 7.3 has articles on: PHP 7.3 is On Track! by Damien Seguy. See what’s new in the next version of PHP. Upgrading Old Legacy Apps to PHP 7 and Beyond by Sammy Kaye Powers …
In this Episode Our twelfth episode is in the can, thanks to Eric van Johnson and John Congdon. Share your thoughts on the topics covered and leave a comment below. Topics Eric and John discuss freelancing and how it changed John’s life, regular expressions, PhpStorm, and how the PHP community gets together. …
By Michael Schrenk This is the final installment of a set of three articles offering strategies for parsing text with PHP. The first article described the basics of parsing, followed by an article on developing fault tolerant parsing strategies. This article is dedicated to regular expressions. Regular …
Xdebug, Freelancing, Parsing text, MySQL Generated Columns, Gitflow, PhpStorm, and more. In this Issue Masterful Code Management has articles on: Debugging PHP With Xdebug by Mark Niebergall. See how to trace and debug code to find bugs like a pro. Pro Parsing Techniques with PHP, Part Three: …
In this Episode After a summer holiday, Eric van Johnson and John Congdon return with a new format. Share your thoughts on the topics covered and leave a comment below. Please note we recorded this episode before the php[world] Call for Speakers closed but were unable to release it until now. Topics Eric …
Or How to Stop Embedding Ugly Strings of SQL In Your Beautiful Code By Dave Stokes Do you work on projects where you begin coding before knowing what your data looks like? Or are you part of the vast majority of developers who have had little or no training in database theory, relational calculus, Structured …