March 18, 2025

Super Charging Development with DocBlock

Check out my video on "Super Charging Development with DocBlock" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/LQr99R_U_hA

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March 11, 2025

DevRel With Tessa Kriesel

Check out my video on "DevRel With Tessa Kriesel" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/yU_kVH6wVHI

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February 25, 2025

Prism with TJ Miller

Check out my video on "Prism with TJ Miller" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/S4eIGKnaH2w

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February 24, 2025

PhpStorm: Refactoring With Extract Variable

PHPStorm has some amazing refactoring support build into it. One of the refactoring tools I reach for on a common basis is the the extract variable refactoring which allows us to take a statement...

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February 18, 2025

Markdown for Developers

Check out my video on "Markdown for Developers" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/r9AVBLSNjoA

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February 17, 2025

PhpStorm: Refactoring With Inline Variable

One of the code smells that drive me up the wall is when there's a variable that exists just to pass around a value. For example in the code below we're setting $value to...

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February 10, 2025

PhpStorm: Paste History

PHPStorm, like most text editors, has the ability to copy and paste text using Command-C to copy and Command-V to paste. Normally this gets saved to the computer's clipboard and we can only have a...

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February 4, 2025

php[tek] 2025 with John Congdon

Check out my video on "php[tek] 2025 with John Congdon" at the php[architect] YouTube Channel. https://youtu.be/tu7g5Cnndao

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February 3, 2025

PhpStorm: InlineError Plugin

I love PhpStorm, but one of the things that really drives me nuts is the fact that I can type errors and it'll just put this little squiggly guy underneth the error but I don't know what that...

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January 25, 2025

New in PHP 8.4: new MyClass()->method() Without Parentheses

The 8.4 release of PHP added logic so if we're creating a class and then immediately calling a helper function inside the class the class initialization no longer needs to be in parenthsis. I...

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