Determining Code Coverage With PHPUnit
There are lots of ways that we can judge other developers’ code. A lot of them are subjective like spacing, function names, and class names. When we do code reviews these are not helpful methods to judge the code and we instead need to use a better method. We need to use non-subjective metrics like […]
php[podcast] Episode 23.3.1
John and Eric share more of the day to day behind the scenes work that goes on at php[architect]. This includes a lot of talk on php[tek]. They also talk about the latest edition of the magazine “Box of PHP”. Join the Discord at https://phpa.me/discord Get your early bird php[tek] tickets before the price goes […]
Serializing Data In PHP
One of the more annoying problems when working with data is creating a system to save data from RAM into long-term storage so it can be loaded back into RAM and processed at a later time. There are thousands of different file formats that allow us to take structured data, write it to storage, and […]
Everything You Need to Know About Pair Programming
Onboarding a new developer to our team can be a complicated process. They need to fill out HR paperwork, get a development environment, and find a comfy place to work (along with a caffeinated beverage). Then someone needs to fill their head with all of the institutional knowledge they need to do their job. There […]
php[podcast] Episode 23.2.1
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Getting Out of PHP Dependency Hell With Composer
In the darker days of web application development, we essentially had two options for working with dependencies. The first is that we could put all the dependencies in a directory of our application and use them from there. This worked but could cause our application to balloon in size. The other option was to rely […]