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Jun 22, 2021 · Oscar Merida

Debugging with Purpose

By Joseph Maxwell Debugging and solving problems is an art. It is part technique and part practice. In this article, I...

May 25, 2021 · Oscar Merida

Fiendish Functions—Filtering Fact From Fiction

By Camilo Payan Functional programming is a paradigm that has gained in popularity recently with the rise of several n...

May 24, 2021 · Oscar Merida

Streamlining Behat

By Oscar Merida Behat, and feature tests overall, are crucial for giving you confidence that when you refactor code, y...

May 2, 2021 · Oscar Merida

Security Corner: Basics of Password Hashing

By Eric Mann Every web application that allows users to authenticate needs to ensure their users’ credentials are affo...

Apr 26, 2021 · Oscar Merida

Community Corner: Interview with Angie Byron, Part Two

Now on Drupal 9, the community isn’t slowing down. This month, we continue our interview with Angie Byron, a.k.a Webchi...

Mar 22, 2021 · Oscar Merida

Six Things I Learned as a Lead Developer

By Gabor “Mefi” Nadai Being a Lead Developer is a fun, engaging, and responsible adventure. Becoming one is not someth...

Dec 8, 2020 · Oscar Merida

PHP 8 Distilled

By Matthew Turland PHP 8 is a significant release for much more than just its version number: it’s absolutely packed w...

Nov 23, 2020 · Oscar Merida

Community Corner: Podcast—Mic Check

By Eric Van Johnson If you follow me on Twitter (@shocm), then you already knew what was coming this month. I asked th...

Oct 23, 2020 · Oscar Merida

More Than Asynchronous I/O, Introduction To Swoole PHP

By Bruce Dou Swoole PHP is a coroutine based asynchronous network application framework. It is a PHP extension that ex...

Sep 23, 2020 · Oscar Merida

Community Corner: PHP 8 Release Managers: Interview with Sara Golemon and Gabriel Caruso, Part Three

By Eric Van Johnson Part three concludes my interview with the PHP 8 Release Managers about PHP Internals. We touch on...

Sep 11, 2020 · Oscar Merida

PHP and Database Access

By Erwin Earley In its early days, the Internet was all about sharing static data like images, flat text files, and do...

Aug 18, 2020 · Oscar Merida

Education Station: Writing Concise Code

By Chris Tankersley There is a huge emphasis put on the code maintainability, and for a good reason. The programming i...

Aug 18, 2020 · Oscar Merida

Education Station: Calling All Callables

By Chris Tankersley When facing a challenging problem, you want a flexible codebase that adapts quickly. Object-orient...

Aug 18, 2020 · Oscar Merida

finally{}: What’s in PHP Eight?

By Eli White While much of the world shuts down, the PHP core developers have been hard at work preparing for the rele...