php[architect]

The Internet Research Agency indictment carries strong implications for the software development community. We'll educate ourselves by drilling down into examples of computational propaganda with Twit...

There are many tools available to help check our site for accessibility. These tools are great, but they only get you part of the way to an accessible website. There are lots of judgment calls based o...

Lumen is a microframework from the creator of Laravel advertised as "Decidedly Laravel. Delightfully Minimal." If you are looking at taking your first dive into building an API or microservice, Lumen...

Have you ever had a cron job filled with *? Had a database field called checked_out you used to make sure one process didn’t try to do the work another process was trying to do but hadn’t finished yet...

As programming has continued to evolve, things have gotten a lot more complicated. I mean we've come a long way since the early 80's when I was writing: `10 GOSUB 200` Complexity is good in what it al...

Many developers confuse platforms like GitHub with tools like Git. On the one hand, this is a bit confusing for those trying to learn the terminology we use on a daily basis. On the other hand, the vi...

While the kernel offers all sorts of APIs to manipulate namespaces and processes at a fine-grained level, that is often not especially helpful when trying to build systems at a more coarse-grained lev...

PHP is not a new language. It began as a template layer for C applications, but it has become so much more. Just as the language has evolved, so too have how it is now used. Today, there are some who...

When I founded PHP Hampshire, I had no idea what I was doing, nor what I was letting myself in for. That said, I had a great time learning the ropes, learning more about what people will expect of you...

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 bette...