php[architect]

What’s on your ‘Someday’ list? What do you keep putting off, waiting for the right time? Dust off that list. Someday has arrived….Stop Waiting! by Beth Tucker Long

This month we will look at PSR-18, the HTTP Client. Use of APIs has grown significantly over the years, from providing sports stats and news headlines to driving the backend of websites, processing...

All too often, when any Laravel developer is requested to start a project, they get zoned in on the selection of things like Livewire vs. Inertia or which Spatie packages to use. Generally, their fo...

Now that the snow is melting, we’re beginning to see the first signs of Spring. With Spring comes the rain, wildflowers and honeybees, bouncing bunnies in the park, and conference season. Traveling...

When I drew out our PHP application on the whiteboard, it looked like a Big Ball of Mud. We changed the drawing slightly, and something interesting appeared. by Edward Barnard

Hello friends! You might know me from my years of shouting at PHP developers to write tests for their code and my (hopefully) entertaining talks at conferences. It probably will not surprise readers...

Last month we started looking at 12 Factor Applications, a set of rules for building robust, maintainable distributed applications. Developed by Heroku Engineer Adam Wiggins in 2011, it raised some...

Back in the January 2021 installment for PHP Puzzles, Sherri Wheeler looked at drawing a path through a grid. In this first part, we delve into the work of maze generation. by Oscar Merida

The future of the Internet and computing will likely shift away from devices we sit down with and use on a daily basis. Technologies like augmented reality, virtual reality, and the Internet of Thin...

It’s not even 24 hours since GPT-4 was released to the public, and I’m writing this article with my own bare hands. I won’t lie to you; I’m tempted to generate the content of this post. But the GPT...

Domain-Driven Design is a team sport. Here’s my story of what can and cannot be accomplished with a team size of one. by Edward Barnard