PHP Architect

by Oscar Merida

Algebras are commonplace in Functional Programming, paradigm incrementally gaining mainstream appeal in PHP. They offer a means of enforcing referential transparency in codebases rife with a plethora...

by Scott Keck-Warren

Work queues allow us to perform slow or error-prone tasks outside of the current user's request to improve their experience with our site. Instead of doing everything during a user's request, we can o...

by Chris Tankersley

One of the most requested features in PHP for a very long time was a concept known as Annotations. Annotations allow developers to add additional context and, most importantly, functionality to code w...

by Joe Ferguson

Pest is a PHP testing framework focused on simplicity and brings a powerful expectations API to PHP. Pest is influenced by Jest, a JavaScript testing framework. Pest was created by Nuno Maduro origina...

by Edward Barnard

How do the building blocks come together to form a whole? Most resources on Design Patterns look at each pattern in isolation, allowing you to focus on the pattern and its uses without being distracte...

by Oscar Merida

In this installment, we continue looking at Conway's Game of Life and our exploration of cellular automata. Now that we can calculate how one cell in our grid changes from one generation to the next,...

by Eric Mann

A modern security best practice is to both implement and require a form of authentication beyond a simple password. This practice is known as "multifactor" authentication, as users will have a primary...

by Eric Van Johnson

This month, we talk with the person behind the Laravel Framework, Taylor Otwell, who he is, and where he is taking Laravel moving forward. Laravel recently turned ten years old, and what a remarkable...

by Beth Tucker Long

Sometimes you need something tried and true, and sometimes you need to escape the daily grind and try something new.