Our May issue is now available. While it's easy to focus on our own needs and tasks, in this issue, we look at how you Make a Difference and bank some karma too.
- Joe Devon introduces us to Global Accessibility Awareness Day and stresses the importance of building accessibility into our sites and apps.
- Erika Heidi shares her experience contributing her first Pull Request to a well-regarded framework.
- Michael Crumm shows a better way to interact with the cURL extensions and API Clients with Guzzle.
- Darren Cook teaches how use HTML5 Server Sent Events to leverage push messages easily.
- Our Confident Coder Aaron Saray reminds us to use the powerful (but sometimes neglected) built-in capabilities of PHP with filter_var as an example.
- In Education Station, Matthew Setter wraps up his introduction to the Phalcon framework with a look at template caching, custom routes, and form handling.
- This month's Laravel Tips from Dirk Merkel explores how to use Helpers to lock down your URLs.