PHP Architect

by Scott Keck-Warren

Backups are one of those things we developers don’t like to think about until there’s a problem, and then it’s too late. Anyone who’s ever accidentally deleted something only to find out the only good...

by Ken Marks

Welcome back to another installment of ‘How to Hack your Home with a Raspberry Pi.’ At the end of this article, you should have a Raspberry Pi running a full LAMP stack that can serve up web pages to...

by Oscar Merida

We're building on a previous puzzle for finding integer factors. In this article, we look at how to find prime factors before turning to one more puzzle involving integer division.

by Chris Tankersley

The world of computers is an odd place. When I was younger, all we had was a Tandy Color Computer 2 because it was cheap. When we upgraded to an IBM running DOS, it was a major upgrade. I grew up duri...

by Joe Ferguson

In the January 2022 edition, my friend Chris Tankersley wrote Education Station: Background Queues, a fantastic primer for using background queues, or workers with your PHP application. This month we...

by Edward Barnard

Last month, we created "role-based lookups" with "When You Know the Pattern." Database-related code can be difficult to unit test, and once unit tests are written, they can be difficult and time-consu...

by Eric Mann

In the physical world, it’s relatively easy to understand what a supply chain looks like---the security of physical goods in transit is a straightforward concept. This kind of security in the digital...

by Frank Wallen

PHP-FIG (PHP Framework Interoperability Group) is the group of developers and projects coming together to define/suggest and maintain PSRs (PHP Standard Recommendations) for how frameworks and compone...

by Beth Tucker Long

**ding - Subject line: Reminder to complete your student’s school registration.** A new email arrives. *Right, I need to get that done as soon as I finish work for the day.* **ding - Subject line: You...