Input, mutate, output…pretty much explains everything.

As a person with many hobbies I often find myself trying to take a situation I am not familiar with and compare it to something…

PHPStorm 2017.3 EAP New feature: In editor REST client.

If you happen to be anything like me, you spend a lot of time with APIs. JSON is a on your resume as a second…

Community resouces

Library of handy, helpful, informative, or motivational links. PHP https://www.phparch.com/podcast-subscribe/ Workflow / Productivity Yii2 http://www.yiiframework.com/wiki/861/how-to-get-seo-friendly-url-using-model-and-new-geturl-function/ Why? https://github.com/juokaz/pyhp.js

An example of when being to clever can come back to bite you…

As part of a test I had to ensure only two alphabetical characters would allowed. So I used `chr(rand(97,122))`; which on a OSX machine is…

So youre using Docker in dev, but how do you get deploy?

Asmir MustaficĀ (@goetas_asmir) did a 10 minute presentation over at NomadPHP on how to deploy your PHP (or really any process) using docker. https://nomadphp.com/deploy-php-app-docker/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=deploy-php-app-docker

CoreOS; web security and privacy.

Alex Polvi over at CoreOS put out a short, but poignant article about not only why CoreOS was started, but why they careĀ about privacy and…

Thus writer just made it to my `must read` list. Everything they state is spot on and to the point.

Eric Elliott wrote on Medium about the fear of change and how to build high velocity development teams. If you read nothing else this week.…

An interesting article about P/React and web application performance.

Check it out, good read and a solid real world example of how proper usage of progressive web applications can make and save your organization…

Docker nginx-proxy round robin…

So we use docker for container services at work. One container that is part of our ‘dev’ tools is an nginx reverse proxy tied to…

Economy of Scale: when big is a waste.

Some short musings. I was thinking about why larger organizations tend to be less ‘agile’ or ‘nimble’ than smaller organizations. Even though larger organizations are…