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Jun 6, 2023 · Eric Van Johnson

Code Coverage Validation With Codecov

Every year we're getting new versions of PHP, which is great but it means we're going to have to constantly put time int...

May 30, 2023 · Eric Van Johnson

Automating Our Tests With GitHub Actions

As developers, we need to automate as much as possible. This saves us time and money as well as keeps us from skipping s...

Apr 27, 2023 · Eric Van Johnson

Database Normalization For Developers

Not every team has a dedicated database administrator. I've **never** worked on a team that has had someone solely focus...

Mar 27, 2023 · Eric Van Johnson

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 nam...

Mar 20, 2023 · Eric Van Johnson

Automated Testing Using PHPUnit

As developers, we spend a lot of time testing the code that we've written. Generally, this is a manual process where we...

Feb 27, 2023 · Eric Van Johnson

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 stora...

Feb 23, 2023 · Eric Van Johnson

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 developme...

Feb 2, 2023 · Eric Van Johnson

Creating a PHP Library With Packagist

One of the most powerful parts of writing web applications in the modern era is how we can quickly create an application...

Jan 24, 2023 · Eric Van Johnson

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 fir...

Dec 21, 2022 · Eric Van Johnson

Queues With PHPs SplQueue

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...

Nov 29, 2022 · Eric Van Johnson

Semantic Versioning

When new software comes out it has a version number like 8.2.0. If you're confused about what that means you're not al...

Nov 13, 2022 · Eric Van Johnson

Linked Lists With SplDoublyLinkedList

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...

Oct 23, 2022 · Eric Van Johnson

The PHP DateTime Class

As a developer, you're going to run into situations where you need to perform some kind of operation on a date or time...

Oct 12, 2022 · Eric Van Johnson

What's Changed in PHP 8.2

PHP 8.2 will be released on November 24, 2022, and at the top level, there's nothing that's going to blow your socks o...