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Why PHP 7.2 Is Important thephp.cc gives an overview of some of the internal changes that have happened to PHP over the last few versions, to try and discover the actual impact of these changes. Based on this they discuss some of the behind the scene...

WordPress 3.7 introduces automatic updates which is a great way for most people to keep their WordPress sites updated, without having to remember to do it manually. For some people having live sites update automatically without testing or running bac...

We just had an issue at work. A system that had been working fine suddenly started losing data. This had never been an issue before, and it seemed to happen at random which made it pretty hard to debug and reproduce. The system consisted of a JavaScr...

The pages of the calendar has turned, and our dates now start with 2018, at least for those of us following ISO-8601. Still in this new year, I'm planning to keep doing my monthly lists of interesting tech-related articles to read. Starting from toda...

Oh yes, Unix The Unix philosophy focuses on minimalist, modular software. A beautiful example of this is the yes command, which repeatedly prints the character 'y'. This sounds really simple, but Matthias Endler wrote a little story about the yes Uni...

Asynchronous stack traces: why await beats .then() First up, Mathias Bynens has an interesting look into how JavaScript stack traces are generated, and why await beats .then() when it comes to debugging. Writing speaking code & ineffective coding hab...

Another month is coming to an end, and again that means I'll try to summarize some of the most interesting articles I've read. Because of holidays, it's been a pretty short month for me work-wise. That also means that this month's list is pretty shor...

Once again a month is coming to an end and, as is becoming the habit, I've gathered a bunch of interesting tech articles that caught my eye during the last month. First up, Matthias Noback has a 3-part series about his approach to application archite...

Even though July was a pretty quiet month online due to everybody being on vacation, I still came across some interesting articles. Earlier in the year, there was a big discussion in the PHP community after some people suggested that pretty much ever...

Summer is on, June is over, and it's time for yet another summary of a month passed. This month's focus will be on PHP and Laravel, with an emphasis on performance, but many of the tricks are also useful if you work with other technologies. There's a...

The month of May is over, and as usual, it's time for a summary of interesting tech related articles I've found during the month. We start out with some numbers. Jordi Boggiano published a new updated version of his PHP version stats. A range of stat...

April is almost over, and it's time for another monthly roundup of interesting articles and links. During the month I've read some interesting articles providing a pretty good spread ranging from introductions to JavaScript tools over best practice f...

The month of march is ending, so it's time for this month's roundup of recommended reads. This month consists of 3 main topics: PHP, JavaScript and project management. Even though I work a lot with PHP there's always something new to learn. I've prev...

February is coming to a close, and it's time for a monthly round-up. Even though February is the shortest month of the year I doubt it will be the least eventful. Especially the security scene has been on fire this month, and I doubt we've seen the f...

Per default anything logged in a Laravel application will be logged to the file: storage/logs/laravel.log, this is fine for getting started, but as your application grows you might want something that's a bit easier to work with. Laravel comes with a...

In this article I'll look into a few data loading strategies, namely: Lazy loading Eager loading Lazy-eager loading I'll talk a bit about the pros and cons of each strategy, and common issues developers might run into. Especially the n+1 problem, a...

We recently had an issue where generating large exports for users to download would suddenly just stop for no apparent reason. Because of the size of the exports the first thought was that the process would time out, but the server didn't return a ti...

This is a small OOP (Object oriented programming) cheatsheet, to give a quick introduction to some of the commonly used OOP terminology. function returnSomething() { $something = 'something'; return $something; } echo returnSomething(); c...

Last week I spend some days in Amsterdam attending Laracon EU 2016. It was two very interesting days, and I think the general level of the talks was very high compared to other conferences I've attended. The location and the catering was also really ...

I mostly enjoy working with Laravel. It provides a range of tools that makes it really fast to create a proof of concept of an idea, allowing you to test out your ideas without spending too much time on ideas before knowing if they are actually worth...

A common design patterns used by PHP frameworks, is the front controller. The base idea is simply that your application has a single entry point, which distributes all requests to the proper parts of the system. In php the front controller pattern us...

After about 2 years of work, and a few postponements, PHP 7 has finally been released. I've previously written at length about PHP 7 new features and enhancements but the short version is: Improved performance: PHP 7 is up to twice as fast as PHP 5....

tl;dr: I've built a WordPress plugin for creating Google Analytics tracking URLs for your posts, straight in the post editor. Development of the plugin happens on the GitHub repository Website Analytics in short When doing website analytics, it can ...

Update nov. 9 - Looks like the PHP 7 release date has been postponed due to some outstanding bugs and regressions. It should still be right around the corner, though. PHP 7 overview The next major version of PHP, PHP 7, should be right around the cor...

What is Composer Composer is a dependency manager for PHP. It makes it easy to include 3rd party libraries in your PHP project. It's inspired by npm and aims to bring some of the same ideas to PHP will fixing some of the deficiencies. But, what about...

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Hvorfor en LAMP-server på sin Ubuntu desktopmaskine? Det kan måske virke underligt at man skulle have lyst til at installere servermoduler på sin arbejdsmaskine. "Servermoduler hører da til på serveren", og det er da også til dels rigtigt. Men ...