November 10, 2025

Motivational Quote Monday 2025-11-10

You cannot teach beginners top-down programming, because they don't know which end is up. Tony Hoare

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November 3, 2025

Motivational Quote Monday 2025-11-03

Never spend 6 minutes doing something by hand when you can spend 6 hours failing to automate it Zhuowei Zhang

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October 29, 2025

N8N and PHP With Edward Barnard

Check out my video on "N8N and PHP With Edward Barnard" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/LtayJIei6o0 Find more episodes on our Introducing the Community Corner Podcast post.

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October 28, 2025

Longhorn PHP 2025 Day 2

10 Software Laws We're here at the conference and not at home. Our career gets better but family life worse. "If something is hard, do it more often" Shipley's Six Dimensions 1. Brevity of...

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October 28, 2025

Longhorn PHP 2025 Day 3

values of tests = cost of bugs found by tests - cost of test suite Coupling: the amount of knowledge A knows about B A (application code) has thin later to connect to B (send emails) Test Doubles...

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October 24, 2025

Taming Time in PHP Best Practices and Gotchas - Longhorn PHP 2025

I presented my talk on Time in PHP at Longhorn PHP 2025 Links: Join.d Slides: Follow Scott: Mastodon: @scottkeckwarren@phpc.social X/Twitter: @scottkeckwarren (write only)...

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October 24, 2025

Cascadia PHP 2024 Post-Mortem Day 1

https://joind.in/event/cascadiaphp-2024/the-truth-about-event-sourcing https://joind.in/event/cascadiaphp-2024/time-why-you-punish-me Note about how between save and read the rules may change!...

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October 24, 2025

SQL Database Design For Developers - Longhorn PHP 2025

My slides and links from my SQL Database Design For Developers talk at Longhorn PHP 2025

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October 22, 2025

Stop Manual Refactoring: Automate Your PHP Upgrades with Rector

Check out my video on "Stop Manual Refactoring: Automate Your PHP Upgrades with Rector" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/VAcGzxyxILg

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October 20, 2025

Motivational Quote Monday 2025-10-20

If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge. Henry Spencer

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