Eric, John, and Oscar sit down to go over the August 2021 issue, Trimming One’s Sails.

Topics Covered

• Grokking algebraic structures and functional programming with PHP
• Laravel Horizon and diving into worker queues
• Multi-factor authentication and why you should use add it to your application.
• Testing with Pest PHP and how it’s different from PhpUnit.
• Eric’s interview with Taylor Otwell, creator of Laravel.
• Annotations, using them in legacy code and PHP 8’s implementation.
• Interfaces and patterns for using them.
• How step debugging improves your productivity.