Full stack developer with a passion for product development & technology. Founder of SportShots.ai and Engineering manager and Solution Architect at Lighthouse.com.
Installing both PHP 5 and PHP 7 next to each other seems to be fairly simple. In this blog post, I will be showing you how you can free up some resources while you're transitioning to PHP 7. Here's what I did.
Composer is really missing an "outdated" command like most of the other package managers. Luckily, the Climb package has this covered!
OPcache is great, it improves PHP performance by storing precompiled script bytecode in shared memory, thereby removing the need for PHP to load and parse scripts on each request.
Years ago I wrote a blog post on how to install the PHP mcrypt extension on OSX. But times change, and here's how you do it, for real.
Mobiledetect is awesome, but it doesn't extract information for desktop devices and browser. So I decided to create my own package that extends Mobiledetect; meet the Agent .
Installing and configuring Postfix or Exim often feels like rocket science to get everything set up without any security holes. But those days are over; meet the awesome Nullmailer + Mandrill combo!
The PHP League just released version 2 of their dependency injection container, and this is why you should be excited.
For me, Laravel's Blade templating engine is one of the best templating engines I have ever used. But wouldn't it be nice to use Blade outside of a Laravel project?
Wait, nano has syntax highlighting? Why did I not know this?
Laravel 5.1 was released this week, and it came with a lot of interesting goodies. One of those goodies was the addition of Symfony's progress bar support for console commands. I have a lot of commands that ...
Decent error logging is one of the most important things when it comes to building applications. It is so unprofessional when a client calls you about a bug and you have no idea what he is talking about. Wouldn't ...
Recently, Composer changed their default version constraint from using ~ (tilde) to ^ (caret). Luckily for you, my friend Hannes Van De Vreken wrote a great article about the difference between the two:
Recently I wrote a blog post and gave a talk at php.gent about id obfuscation and how it can help hide your application internals from malicious users. While doing some research about other obfuscation techniques, ...
The first time I read about yield in PHP was in the PHP 5.5 changelog back in 2013. Actually, I did not really give it that much attention, since I thought it was not that big of deal at the time. It wasn't ...
If you have ever used Laravel 4, you have probably seen the following Whoops error screen÷