Articles

These cover a variety of topics. Some of them might software development, productivity, web tech, and popular culture. These are typically referred to as "blog posts", but the term blog has largely fallen out of favor. The term "posts" has largely been recast to refer to short content on social media sites like Facebook or Mastodon. Since my writings are usally longer, I prefer to my writings as articles.

Laying the Groundwork

Last night I gave a talk Laying the Groundwork at Seattle PHP. Over the years, I’ve seen a lot of different projects. Their quality and maintainability varied greatly. So I wanted to help my fellow developers to learn from the mistakes of developers past. Also, judging by what I’ve seen on the web, some PHP … Read more » Laying the Groundwork

Essential Composer Packages

Every PHP developer worth their salt uses Composer to manage their dependencies. That’s because Composer is a crucial component of modern PHP development. It’s by far the best way to manage 3rd party code. The number of composer packages available on Packagist is staggering – as is the number of downloads for some projects. It’s … Read more » Essential Composer Packages

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