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Sep 2, 2024 · Eric Van Johnson

PHP Projects: Pinkary

In our latest installment of “Cool Open Source PHP Projects To Contribute To” (yes, we’re still brainstorming that tit...

Aug 31, 2024 · Eric Van Johnson

What's the big Idea? PHPStorm for Vim Users

I started my IT career in system operations. I spent many days in a cold data center, racking and stacking servers, inst...

Aug 20, 2024 · Eric Van Johnson

What's New and Exciting in PHP 8 4

At the time of this writing, PHP 8.4 is in the beta release cycle so we can finally start to discuss what's new in the n...

Jul 16, 2024 · Eric Van Johnson

Running PHPCBF Automatically with GitHub Actions

As developers, we each have a specific way that we like to format our code and we can have extremely strong feelings abo...

Jun 24, 2024 · Eric Van Johnson

Make for Web Developers

Make for Web Developers The command line, it's a powerful tool for us developers but it's not the most user-friendly wa...

May 21, 2024 · Eric Van Johnson

Creating Sequence Diagrams with mermaid.js

As maintainers of open source projects, it's important to try and bring people into our project so that we're not the on...

May 19, 2024 · Eric Van Johnson

PHP's Magic Methods

As PHP developers, we need to know a lot of language features to make our code easy to write and maintain. Without expli...

Feb 14, 2024 · Eric Van Johnson

Getting Up And Running With Laravel Sail

Docker is one of the best ways to have a consistent environment across multiple computers, but for new developers (and e...

Feb 6, 2024 · Eric Van Johnson

Getting Started With Docker

"Works on my machine" it's a common refrain before closing out a bug ticket. This hides the fact that something is diffe...

Jan 31, 2024 · Eric Van Johnson

Creating Finite State Machines in PHP 8.3

As developers, we're constantly managing where entities are in some flow. Entities like blog posts, multi-step user regi...

Jan 29, 2024 · Eric Van Johnson

What Are Finite State Machines

As developers, we're constantly managing where entities are in some state. Entities like blog posts, multi-step user reg...

Jan 2, 2024 · Eric Van Johnson

Stacks With SplStack

As developers, we have times when we get to process a lot of data. Sometimes it's a few kilobytes of data and we don't n...

Oct 19, 2023 · Eric Van Johnson

Getting Started With the Pest Testing Framework

As a practitioner of test-driven development, I'm always looking for different ways to write test code faster. Sometimes...

Sep 27, 2023 · Eric Van Johnson

Let's Get Our OSS Ready For Hacktoberfest 2023

As maintainers of open source projects, it's important to try and bring people into our project so that we're not the on...