Using events and command buses, self-hosted git, design workflows, parsing text, a look at CakePHP, Composer security, and more

Writing clean code, managing technical debt, testing with Mockery, Toxic Tech, API specifications, and more.

PHP Unit, Mockery, Type Hints, Async PHP, building a REST API, training programs, PHP isolation and security, serverless computing, Laravel auth, and more.

You can get pretty far without automated testing of your code. I should know, I was slow in adopting it as part of my day to day workflow. The truth is, automated testing ends up speeding up your workflow and its an investment. When you can have a computer, which is built to do routine […]

Code reviews are one of the best ways to help a team ensure they’re writing the best code possible. In all of the jobs where we have done peer-lead code reviews, we have caught more bugs and had better discussions about code than in places or times where we just hammer code through the approval process. I know, I know; we all write beautiful, bug-free code, so why go through the hassle of a code review?

PHP Daemons, Evolving PHP, containers, accessibility, Lumen, code reviews, signing git commits, running a user group, and more.

It’s awesome to see the excitement and ongoing development around using PHP outside of the typical web server Request and Response flow. This month, we look at how to run PHP indefinitely, add to its syntax, use git more effectively with code reviews and code signing, and more.

Tooling around web development has only become more complicated as each year passes. There are probably tools to help you manage and tame all the tools you need to get your work done. This month, we take a look at tools to help you understand just what’s going on under the hood.

Containers, Drupal + Symfony, Evaluating Tools, Onboarding, Application Encryption, Laravel Scout, and more

Worker Queues, Async with Generators, and PHP Sessions in Depth, Hiring PHP Devs, Laravel Collections, Security & Logging, and more.