This is a follow-up article on Machine Learning, Part 2. Have you read the introduction to Machine Learning (Part 1) already? The next thing I wanted to learn in my journey was to make a neural network recognize the digits in this picture. It’s a very well-known problem, and...
I’ve always been fascinated by science fiction and the advances of technology. And AI/ML has often represented a huge chunk of that because, for me, it’s the closest way that I, as a single person, can create life and feel like a god. And that’s really...
This post is part 3 of the “Building an SDK with PHP” series. Read Part 1 and Part 2 In our last article we’ve looked at how we can make our SDK configurable and today we’ll apply this to cover our SDK with several unit tests. What should...
This post is part of the “Building an SDK with PHP” series. Read Part 1: building an SDK. If you’ve followed along with the last post you have created a SDK in PHP while leveraging various PSRs such as PSR-17 and PSR-18. Today we’ll take this a step...
A little over ten years ago, I felt so annoyed with testing Apache’s mod_rewrite RewriteRules that I started looking for a tool to test them. The search was unsuccessful— no such tool to be found. https://htaccess.madewithlove.com/ Out of my frustration, I decided to write something...
Chunking up our code No matter how smart or intelligent we are, when things become too complex, we can no longer keep them in our brain completely. I recently saw this tweet from Kent Beck that makes a lot of sense. The goal of software design is to create chunks...
Whether you’ve built a private or public-facing API, at some point you or your users are going to want to communicate with it. To make things easier you might want to open-source an SDK that other developers can install. In this article we’ll take a look at how...
Reading tip: Learn how to run an ssh tunnel in your docker based development environment to easily connect to mysql or other non-http services. When working in a Docker-based development environment, you usually map the ports of your existing Docker container (port mapping or docker port forwarding) to a port...
Over my career I’ve dabbled in various forms of testing, both on the backend and front-end. I’ve tried various frameworks and experimented with different approaches, types of tests, and philosophies. From unit tests to Gherkin behaviour tests to E2E tests with Selenium in the good ol’ days, I’...