In this issue: Xdebug, Freelancing, Parsing text, MySQL Generated Columns, Gitflow, PhpStorm, and more.

After a summer holiday, Eric van Johnson and John Congdon return with a new format and discuss Static Analysis, Domain Driven architecture, MySQL’s document store, and more.

Could you be working on a project without a database administrator to set up relational tables, indexes, and schemas? Or are you tired of embedding ugly lines of SQL in your pristine PHP code? There is new hope for you.