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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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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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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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Motivational Quote Monday 2025-08-18
The nice thing about standards is that there are so many to choose from. Andrew S. Tannenbaum
ReadAugust 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.
ReadAugust 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
ReadAugust 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.
ReadJuly 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...
ReadJuly 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...
ReadJune 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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