When building reusable Mezzio packages, such as for user management, payments, and authentication, do users have to enable them manually, or are you automating it for them? In this short tutorial, I’ll show you how to enable them almost automatically, saving your users time and effort.
Laracon AU 2024 is over, so I thought I’d share a bit of what it was like for me, especially as I’ve not been to Laracon before.
Docker is an excellent way of deploying software. But, how do you know if your build configurations (your Dockerfiles) are valid without building them? In this short tutorial, I’ll show you how.
Dark Mode is a staple of modern web apps and an excellent way to better care for our eyes. However, you don’t have to enable dark mode for your entire desktop to test your web app’s dark mode implementation. Here’s how to enable it at the browser-level.
When using curl, how do you set the value of one or more of the POST variable’s from the contents of a file? For the longest time, I didn’t know. But recently I found out. In this post, I’ll step you through several ways you can do it.
If you love using data providers in PHPUnit, but find defining them verbose (and potentially buggy) then you’ll love the attribute-based approach in PHPUnit 10. Learn the essentials in this short post.
Recently, I’ve started to learn Java, after over 20 years since I first learned it. As a, primarly, PHP developer it’s been an interesting experience. PHP is still easier for web projects. Here are some reflections on why.
When you’re writing Dockerfiles using build arguments (which you should) it’s important to keep their scope in mind. Otherwise, you’ll get very frustrated (more than likely).
As software designers and developers, how often do we think about — or even put ourselves in the position of — the users whom we’re creating software for? How often have we had to use a poorly designed software (regardless of whether it was a native or web-based app or API)?
Building web apps in Go is extremely rewarding. However, as Go’s a compiled language, to see changes, you need to restart the app. Needless to say that’s quite tedious! With live reloading, it doesn’t need to be.