php[architect]

For our final installment of this series, it’s time for us to address Wrath in how it relates to programming. Wrath, commonly known as Anger, in the middle ages was considered the opposite of Love. Th...

The PHP compiler source code includes many patterns that can be frustrating and intimidating, because they are so different from typical PHP code, until we understand the structure and context. C’s pr...

The OWASP Top Ten is required reading for anyone in software development, regardless of whether or not your role focuses on security. It’s a useful guide to get you started thinking from a strong secu...

The very first thing you need to do when something goes wrong is to get a good handle on the situation and find out what’s wrong. Many users first instincts are to get frustrated and say, “This is bro...

User tolerance for long website and application load times is extremely low. While PHP 7 produces considerably more efficient code than its predecessors, caching is vital for being able to meet perfor...

Believe it or not, CSS is awesome. No, wait! Come back! It's a new day for our styles on the web. There have been so many advancements in the past five years to what we can accomplish with CSS that yo...

We spend a great deal of time organizing our code, but our frontend templates don’t always receive the same care and attention. Using the approach outlined in this article, we can build a library of r...