php[architect]

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'...

Producer-consumer programming is an excellent technique for offloading work from your main application. You can scale resources to meet increased demand. You can smooth out spikes by placing your back...

This month we’re covering a full-featured unit and Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) test framework named Kahlan. Kahlan is similar to RSpec (Ruby) and JSpec (Java) using BDD style syntax where you de...

One thing security professionals in every field have is a cultivated sense of “professional paranoia.” They invest time in understanding and thinking like a potential attacker. As a result, there are...

We are lucky to work in an industry that is in high demand. Never before has the need for programmers been higher in our world driven by the internet and revolutionary technology. Entrepreneurs are ch...

The Symfony workflow component is a powerful tool that can be used in many ways; we used it to create a state machine for our ecommerce API. In this article, you’ll see how to use it to define the sta...

There are many PHP 7 upgrade paths one could take. The sheer number of options can be paralyzing. Certainly, there are better ways than upgrading your production server to PHP 7.2 and hoping for the b...

Programming is an art, programming is a skill, programming is a job, programming is a lifestyle. With all of that comes joy but also pain. In fact, programming itself can mirror life, and therefore co...

This month, let’s discuss what we can do to help come up with better estimates. I hate estimating, but it is an unfortunate part of software development. We cannot come up with schedules without estim...