431 Episodes
Interview with Beth Tucker Long
Beth Tucker Long chats with Eric Van Johnson and John Congdon about taking over the finally{} column and more. Topics Covered How she got involved with PHP, going to conferences, and php[architect]....
PHP 8 Bits and Git
As scheduled, PHP 8 was released at the end of November. Congratulations are in order for the release maintainers and all contributors involved. In this twelfth issue, we have an in-depth dive into th...
Type hints, SOLID programming, burn out, and more
Listen to Eric, John, and Oscar discuss the articles in the November 2020 issue, SOLID Foundations Topics Covered OSMI 2020 Mental Health in Tech Survey. Practical uses for scalar type hints in PHP....
Editor Bytes – SOLID Foundations
Editor-in-chief Oscar Merida looks into the November 2020 issue, SOLID Foundations. The post Editor Bytes – SOLID Foundations appeared first on PHP Architect.
SOLID Foundations
Writing software does not follow engineering principles or formulas like we have for building bridges or designing airplane wings. That doesn’t mean anything goes! In this issue, we look at how...
Asynchronous programming, testing, race conditions, mental health in tech, and more
Listen to Eric, John, and Oscar discuss the articles in the October 2020 issue, Running Parallel. Topics Covered OSMI 2020 Mental Health in Tech Survey. Asynchronous PHP with Swoole. Scaling and othe...
Interview with Demin Yin on Swoole
Demin Yin, evangelist for Swoole, joins Eric Van Johnson and John Congdon to talk about the project and more. Topics Covered Writing event-driven, non-blocking PHP applications. Supporting for asynch...
More Than Asynchronous I/O, Introduction To Swoole PHP
By Bruce Dou Swoole PHP is a coroutine based asynchronous network application framework. It is a PHP extension that extends PHP core and utilizes more power provided by Linux OS. Unlike the callback s...
Editor Bytes – Parallel Running
Editor-in-chief Oscar Merida looks into the October 2020 issue, Parallel Running. The post Editor Bytes – Parallel Running appeared first on PHP Architect.
Running Parallel
While we think of our scripts running for one request at a time, PHP web applications handle multiple, simultaneous requests at a time. In this issue, we look at asynchronous programming using Swoole,...
Middleware, Serializing Objects,
This episode looks at the September 2020 issue, Under the Scope. Topics covered Using middleware, especially in legacy applications. Use cases for serializing PHP objects. Cleaning up directions and...
Interview with Terri Morgan
Eric and John chat with Terri Morgan about her article on project metrics in the September 2020 issue. Topics Covered Providing valid metrics for project managers. Establishing “where you want...
PHP and Database Access
By Erwin Earley In its early days, the Internet was all about sharing static data like images, flat text files, and downloadable binaries. The early Internet’s static nature was useful in for sharing...
Editor Bytes – Under the Scope
Editor-in-chief Oscar Merida looks into the September 2020 issue, Under the Scope. The post Editor Bytes – Under the Scope appeared first on PHP Architect.
Under the Scope
It’s time to review some fundamentals and remind ourselves how some things we might take for granted work. This month, we have articles on serializing PHP objects, using middleware effectively,...
Document databases, MySQL, JSON-Schema validation, and PHP types
In this Episode Eric, John, and Oscar discuss the August 2020 issue, Data Discipline. Topics Covered Using SQL with non-relational databases. Data integrity with UUIDs and primary keys. Connecting an...
Interview with Dave Stokes on JSON-Schema, and MySQL
In this Episode Dave Stokes joins Eric Van Johnson and John Congdon to talk about MySQL and databases. The correct pronunciation(s) of MySQL. The impact of open-source software on their careers. Upco...
Education Station: Writing Concise Code
By Chris Tankersley There is a huge emphasis put on the code maintainability, and for a good reason. The programming industry is rife with what we like to term “legacy code,” which boils down to code...
Education Station: Calling All Callables
By Chris Tankersley When facing a challenging problem, you want a flexible codebase that adapts quickly. Object-oriented programming facilitates it by giving you the power through inheritance, encapsu...
finally{}: What’s in PHP Eight?
By Eli White While much of the world shuts down, the PHP core developers have been hard at work preparing for the release of PHP 8.0 at the end of this year! The feature freeze is in just a few months...
