Migrating to Laminas (Zend Framework): A Practical Guide
Practical guide to migrating PHP applications to Laminas and Mezzio: PSR compliance, module structure, Guzzle builder pattern, ConfigProvider caching, and PSR-7 stream pitfalls.
Software Development
Posts about software development in general.
Scalable System Design: Design a Contact Tracing System
In this post, I want to address scalable system design and how to grow a system while it's user base grows.
Homeserver Management with Linux and Puppet
I set up a home server and manage it with puppet. This blog summarizes the setup step by step and shows my learnings.
Brushing Up My Computer Science Skills: A Deep(er) Dive
This blog post is part of preparation for a computer science interview in big tech. Summarizing my computer science skills in a blog post.
Mastering a MySQL 5.7 Migration Successfully
A brief summary of how to migrate large databases to MySQL 5.7 and steps upgrading MySQL while keeping production up and running.
PHPAlgorithms 1.0.0 is there
PHPAlgorithms is released in version 1.0.0. Read about the improvements and breaking changes for this stable release.
PHP Exceptions and the Stacktrace
A feature that a colleague and me were developing has caused us to stumble across an interesting and edge case problem with PHP exceptions.
Converting Roman Numerals To Decimal Integers
This blog post addresses converting Roman Numerals to decimal integers as a preparation for a coding interview for Big Tech.
Simple URL Crawler to Extract Internal and External Links in PHP
This blog post addresses a very simple, not finished URL Crawler that separates internal and external URLs appearing on a website.
Vagrant Getting Started
This blog post is a summary of my getting started with Vagrant in 2019. It shows a very specific set up and may or may not fit to your needs.