Recently, I was asked to build an application with a rapid turnaround time and modest budget. Being the sole developer, here’s the approach I took to make the development process as simple and efficient as possible
Testing is essential for creating reliable software. Whether you’re writing a small application for your local club or an application to back your startup, it needs test coverage to ensure it works properly. In this series, I show you how to test Zend Framework 2 applications using the comprehensive testing framework - Codeception.
Last week, I traded in my Blue Yeti USB microphone for an MXL 990 XLR mic. I’m beyond happy with the increase in quality. Here’s the backstory.
Landing the first role as a developer seems like the hardest thing to do. Then you realised it’s just the beginning. What do you do to become a professional developer?
Landing the first role as a developer seems like the hardest thing to do. Then you realised it’s just the beginning. What do you do to become a professional developer?
Sometimes, landing the first role as a developer seems like the hardest thing to do. Then you realise it’s only just the beginning. But what do you do to become a professional developer?
Choice can be a good thing, but often too much choice is worse than too little. You risk becoming overwhelmed, confused, even paralyzed. Come learn about the simplest deployment tool for PHP.
Recently I built a new application using SlimPHP, a PHP microframework, instead of a full-stack framework, such as Symfony or Zend Framework 2. In this post, I start discussing how taking this approach has lead to a leaner application design.
There was a time when it was normal to expect that your application would be as highly performant as possible. But over the last decade or so, with the advent of cheap hardware, applications have become larger and more capable, yet demand ever more resources than they once did. Sure, they give us more, but at what cost? Today, filtered through the lens of one of the tougher programming concepts, regular expressions, I consider the partly lost art of efficient programming, the potential reasons for and against, as well as excuses people make for avoiding doing what they should.
Whether you’re creating a podcast or a screencast, how do you make your voice sound as professional as possible - without an expensive recording studio? Today I’ll show you how to do it using the free, open-source tool Audacity.