by Oscar Merida · April 20, 2018
In this Episode Our hosts, Eric van Johnson and John Congdon dive into Testing in Practice and the April 2018 issue of php magazine and interview Robert Basic, one of the contributors to Mockery. Oscar talks about the importance of training for employees and rants against image slideshows.
by Oscar Merida · April 2, 2018
PHP Unit, Mockery, Type Hints, Async PHP, building a REST API, training programs, PHP isolation and security, serverless computing, Laravel auth, and more.
by Oscar Merida · March 27, 2018
Eric and John go over the March features about writing daemons with PHP, Linux containers beyond Docker, accessibility, code reviews, and interview Chris Pitt, about the community in South Africa and his article on Evolving PHP. Oscar shares his experience recently upgrading an application to PHP 7.
by Oscar Merida · March 23, 2018
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?
by Oscar Merida · March 1, 2018
PHP Daemons, Evolving PHP, containers, accessibility, Lumen, code reviews, signing git commits, running a user group, and more.
by Oscar Merida · February 28, 2018
Eric and John discuss February articles on containers, tools, Drupal, Symfony, Search with Scout, and chat with new Education Station author Edward Barnard. Oscar talks with php[tek] conference co-chair Eli White about the new venue in downtown Atlanta.
by Oscar Merida · February 23, 2018
The basics can be tricky. This month we take a careful walk-through of a few lines of cryptographic code in PHP. This leads us through the difference between ones’ complement and two’s complement representation. We achieve weirdness by combining logical AND with integer addition.
by Oscar Merida · February 1, 2018
Containers, Drupal + Symfony, Evaluating Tools, Onboarding, Application Encryption, Laravel Scout, and more
by Oscar Merida · January 24, 2018
Eric and John chat with Joe Ferguson about Laravel collections. They also discuss the January features on background processing with queues, securing your website, PHP Generators and more and more. Oscar looks at PHP support and RFCs coming in 2018.
by Oscar Merida · January 19, 2018
Sessions in PHP are often taken for granted. A session is a magic array which persists across page loads and holds user-specific data. It’s a fantastic and integral part of most web applications. But when misused, sessions can cause substantial security holes, performance and scalability problems, and data corruption. A deep understanding of sessions is vital to production web development in PHP.
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