Thread carefully
As far as I can remember, PHP has always had a terrible reputation at handling very heavy (or asynchronous) tasks. For a long while if
Tutorials
Set Blackfire to the rain
If you’ve ever worked on any PHP application, or package, or anything you know that debugging performance issues is hard. There are several ways
Managing data flow on the client-side
I like to think of client-side applications as empty shells that get populated with data and where the source of that data can be
Webpack your bags
Last updated: December 2020 By now you’ve probably heard about this new cool tool on the block called Webpack. If you haven’t looked
PHP Docblock return types
Return type hinting is great! When I use my IDE and experiment with classes that I haven’t used before, I really love that it
HTTP Client for SDKs
SDKs I like using SDKs when I’m creating prototypes. It’s super easy to get started. You copy and paste some code samples, fill
Displaying stream progress in PHP
With PHP you can, next to handling HTTP requests, invoke scripts from the command line. For a typical web application this could be used to
Tilde and caret version constraints in Composer
When installing a dependency, we are used to installing a version that adheres to a known public interface and does what it promises. That way
PHP type hints: self and parent
In PHP we can type hint function arguments since version 5.0. Over the years and with newer versions of PHP the number of possible
Using illuminate/config v5 outside of Laravel
1. The Laravel framework has become very popular, between others, for its simplicity and expressiveness. With the recent release of Laravel v5, most of the
Elasticsearch Aggregations
I have already covered how you can easily integrate Elasticsearch with your app, but I haven’t talked anything about how you can query your
Use gitattributes to keep your tests out of other people's production
A quick tip here, for all PHP developers out there who author packages registered on packagist.org. Add a .gitattributes file in the root of
Laravel 5 Command-Oriented Approach
A lot of shiny things around the Laravel world that I would like to talk about, so I chose the new CommandBus that Laravel 5
Integrating Elasticsearch with Your Laravel app
Yo! There’s a revamped version (2022) of this article about integrating Elasticsearch with your Laravel app. Searching is an important part of many applications,
WP-CLI: WordPress Command Line Tools
Have you ever tried to automate WordPress upgrade tasks or deployments? I did, it was a big pain. Sometimes I would find myself updating WordPress