Introduction A few days ago, I came across an article explaining the new characteristic of the upcoming Playstation 5. Of course, the article was describing the new design and what type of integrated circuit they have added and why. I am not an eager player, so did not care much about…

Introduction Let me start this article with a bold statement: Composer is one of the most important tools you have to master if you’re serious about your career as a PHP developer. I could spend hours writing about how important it is to learn the core feature of the language or…

Introduction One of the goals I set at the beginning of every year is to read a certain amount of books. I am often behind with this particular goal so I take advantage of times such as a holiday to try to recuperate some times. One of the books I put…

Introduction A few days ago I saw a meme in which it was written that the cooler sensation for a computer geek was to pretend to use the terminal in front of his peers. In the beginning, it drew a smile upon my face but after pondering for a while I…

If you want to skill up your knowledge of programming (not only in PHP but in general) learning design patterns is incredibly useful. You can think of design patterns as reliable and long-lasting solutions to well-known problems that web developers around the world have encountered before you. There are a…

Introduction As a PHP developer, you surely have already realized that one of the most powerful tools in your toolset is the command line. While I agree that spending time on the IDE of your choice and write code is the most beautiful task, I cannot deny the fact that several…

If someone asks you what was the best invention in the PHP realm during the last decade, what would be your answer? We have seen many updates in PHP during the last couple of years, we had the advent of PHP 7, Laravel and Symfony have reached a de-facto status…

The first part of 2020 surely won’t be remembered as the best part of this new decade. In just a few months we had to assist at one of the biggest wildfire ever registered in Australia, the premature death of the most expiring NBA player in the last 20 years…

Letter to Santa Claus: “Dear Santa Claus this year I want…” “Sh*t, I am late for that!” Resolution letter: “This year I will …|” Ever find yourself in this situation? This is the time of the year that can set you up for all the achievement you will get on the long and short term. Whether you are a master in setting and accomplish your goal or you have never done it before this post will teach you how to do it and describe some new trick you can use to be more consistent and get the success you want.