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August 27, 2025

Longhorn PHP 2025!

I'm excited to announce that I will be speaking at Longhorn PHP 2025, where I'll give my talks on "Taming Time in PHP: Best Practices and Gotchas" and "SQL Database Design For Developers," both of...

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August 18, 2025

Longhorn PHP 2025 With Ian Littman

Check out my video on "Longhorn PHP 2025 With Ian Littman" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/Nm6hkxkUvhw Find more episodes on our Introducing the Community Corner Podcast...

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August 18, 2025

Motivational Quote Monday 2025-08-18

Don't get suckered in by the comments, they can be terribly misleading: Debug only the code. Dave Storer

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August 18, 2025

Motivational Quote Monday 2025-08-18

The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. Andrew S. Tannenbaum

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August 12, 2025

Jacked PHP with Savio Resende

Check out my video on "Jacked PHP with Savio Resende" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/k6FkgQ67CR4 Find more episodes on our Introducing the Community Corner Podcast post.

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August 11, 2025

Motivational Quote Monday 2025-08-11

No matter how slow you are writing clean code, you will always be slower if you make a mess. Robert Martin

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August 5, 2025

Verbs with Daniel Coulbourne

Check out my video on "Verbs with Daniel Coulbourne" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/znRb7u25LVc Find more episodes on our Introducing the Community Corner Podcast post.

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July 8, 2025

NativePHP for Mobile With Shane Rosenthal and Simon Hamp

Check out my video on "NativePHP for Mobile With Shane Rosenthal and Simon Hamp" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/qd2hQOxgx6M Find more episodes on our Introducing the...

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July 7, 2025

Why Your Team Needs a Custom Coding Standard

One of the biggest challenges of working on a development team is that everyone writes code a little (or a lot) differently. One of my favorite examples of this is how many ways you can format an...

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June 30, 2025

Using the Right Types in PHP Means Shipping Fewer Bugs

One of the biggest reasons programming projects turn into a mess isn’t the language itself. It’s the way individual programmers use the language. PHP is what is known as a "loosely typed"...

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