Doğan Uçar – Senior PHP & Symfony Engineer for AI-enabled Business Applications

A practical mental model for when to use hooks, skills, plugins, subagents, CLAUDE.md, SKILL.md and AGENTS.md in Claude Code.

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PHP finally gets serious about generics.

The Symfony serializer tries to (de)serialize Doctrine's Metadata and crashes in some cases.

Learn about the upcoming pipe operator in PHP 8.5, its meaning, origins, and why it matters for modern PHP development.

Quines in PHP - and in other languages - are an interesting concept for coding challenges.

The PHP 8.5 release is planned for November 2025.

The core of PHP, one of the most widely deployed backend technologies, has undergone a security audit in 2025.

The JetBrains team published 'The State of PHP 2024' earlier in February.

PHP 8.4 property hooks in practice: best practices, pitfalls with serialization, traits, recursion, and asymmetric visibility - from real-world production use.

Learn how Lazy Objects in PHP 8.4 optimize Dependency Injection.

In the first part of the DMARC blog series I address the theory behind.

Learn how Item-Based Collaborative Filtering, a scalable algorithm for real-time recommendations measures similarity & predicts preferences.

Explore the expertise of a PHP freelance software engineer with over ten years experience.

Can AI Replace Software Engineers?

PHP 8.4 was released November 21, 2024.

In Laminas Framework's Mezzio, each incoming request has an associated handler which can get wrapped by middleware.

Email remains the cornerstone of digital communication.

The Property Hooks RFC passed the vote and will get added to PHP.

In the fourth post of the Laminas Framework Series I want to compare middlewares using Mezzio and the MVC framework by Laminas.