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Here, you'll find articles to help you improve your web development skills, regardless of whether you're building them with PHP or Go, or need to grow your DevOps skills.
There are also articles about creating technical content too.

Should You Learn That New Skill?
Tue, Aug 1, 2017

Should You Learn That New Skill?

A friend and I were talking recently about learning new software languages, and other technical concepts; something that most tech people do on a regular basis. But during the conversation, he brought up a really interesting point - how do you know when it’s worth it?

Tue, Jul 25, 2017

How to Create a Zend Expressive Module

Ever thought of creating a Zend Expressive module, one that either scratches an itch or allows you to use a set of related functionality across multiple Zend Expressive projects? I created one recently and share how I did it with you in this three-part series.

Vim - The Distraction Free Editor
Thu, Jul 20, 2017

Vim - The Distraction Free Editor

A little while ago, I took to Twitter in a sense of jubilant excitement announcing that VIM was THE distraction-free editor. As it’s been quite some time since, I honestly don’t remember exactly what it was that motivated me to do so.

Visual Debt. Really?
Wed, Jun 14, 2017

Visual Debt. Really?

Recently, Jeffrey Way dateed what’s become quite a controversial video in the PHP community on Laracasts, discussing a concept called Visual Debt.

How to Debug a Docker Compose Build
Tue, Apr 18, 2017

How to Debug a Docker Compose Build

If you’re using Docker Compose to deploy an application (whether locally or remotely) and something’s not working, here’s a concise approach you can use to debug the deployment and get your containers up and running properly.


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