Tag: php
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How to Write and Test Code for PHP: Master Standard and Advanced Test Frameworks
Some programmers write code in a random kind of way as they don’t have clear goals in mind for whatever it is they’re writing. This is fine if you’re working on something new and are not sure which direction it’s headed, but for a serious application, writing test classes for every major part of your…
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Getting Started with Laravel 10: Your Quick Guide
[NOTE: Laravel is updated every year, so Laravel 10 came out in 2023 and Laravel 11 in 2024. It’s usually fairly easy to update to the next version of Laravel, so you needn’t worry about the version you start with as long as it is fairly recent – up to 2 versions ago is usually…
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Object Oriented Programming using PHP and Design Patterns: Efficient Techniques Explained
When I first started programming in 1981, the idea of software design patterns had yet to be invented (that happened 6 years later in 1987 by Kent Beck and Ward Cunningham), but it wasn’t until 1994 that the seminal book Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software was published. That book changed my, and many…
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Why I Chose Digital Ocean For My Software Hosting Platform
I’ve been programming since 1983 when I wrote an accounting app for my first business (they were even called ‘apps’ back then – the holy grail was to write a ‘killer app’ – as it still is today). I went from a BBC Model B with 32k RAM, to an Atari 502 ST, to a Windows…