Joe Ferguson

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PHP to Rust via Copilot I set out to build a small project in Rust.

Compiling Python 3.12 from Source Tarball on Linux Preliminary Dev tools installation Debian/Ubuntu sudo apt update sudo apt install build-essential zlib1g-dev libncurses5-dev libgdbm-dev libnss3-dev libssl-dev libreadline-dev libffi-dev Red Hat or Fedor…

HTML Form Processing with PHP Forms are everywhere.

The Workshop: Lando Local Dev This month we’re going to visit a topic that is near and dear to my heart: local development environments.

Monthly php[architect] readers might have noticed I haven't been in the past three issues and I have a really good reason: the day job.

php[tek] 2023 is May 16-18th in Chicago, IL As a seasoned web developer, I have had the privilege of speaking at and attending numerous technical PHP and web developer conferences over the years.

Accept Testing with Codeception Acceptance testing is a method of verifying our application behaves exactly as expected, often utilizing a web browser.

Apache and PHP - Back to Basics This month we’re diving into Apache and PHP configuration to better understand the relationship between the web (HTTP) server and our application.

Pest is a PHP testing framework focused on simplicity and brings a powerful expectations API to PHP.

There are two parts to the Homestead product: a base box named Laravel Settler and a run time Laravel Homestead.

October 19th, 2021 I received an email notification about a new $2,100 one time sponsorship through GitHub Sponsors program.

With the release of Homestead Base box Tighten's Takeout is now included by default.

The Workshop - S3 Storage with MinIO This month we’re diving into running our own S3 compatible open-source server via the open-source project MinIO.

Adding Another Disk to WSL2 The Windows Subsystem for Linux has fundamentally changed how I develop projects.

Specification BDD with phpspec phpspec is a package in which we can use behavior driven development, BDD, which comes fromtest driven development, TDD.

EZ CLI PHP With Symfony Console Writing console commands with PHP is something I have always taken for granted.

The Workshop: Managing LAMP with Virtualmin Virtualmin is a web hosting and cloud computing control panel.

The Workshop: GitHub Actions for Continuous Integration You can read the entire article for free at https://www.phparch.com/2020/07/the-workshop-github-actions-for-continuous-integration/

The Workshop: Ansible in Practice This month, we're going to dive into a practical application of Ansible by building a playbook with roles to implement a fully functional Linux, MySQL, PHP, and NGINX web server.

I've been asked a few times about supporting Laravel Homestead on Apple Silicon, specifically the new M1 ARM architecture.

Real World PDF Generation Last month we covered the basics of PDF generation by focusing on the FPDF library.

Introduction to PDF Generation In early July 2019 I asked Reddit What questions do you have about generating PDFs w/ PHP?

The Workshop: Run Amazon Linux Locally by Joe Ferguson Amazon Linux 2 Amazon Linux 2 is the current generation of Linux provided by Amazon Web Services (AWS) specifically for use in its ElasticCloud (EC2) platform.

The Workshop: The Road to 7.3, Part 2 by Joe Ferguson Last month we explored the world of static analyzers Phan and PhpStan to find compatibility issues any several other common issues in our PHP Easy Math code base.

The Workshop: The Road to 7.3, Part 1 by Joe Ferguson Last month as I was writing “The Workshop: Producing Packages (Part 3)” I had a feeling I would end up regretting the line “This will be the third and final installment in this series”.

The Workshop: Producing Packages (Part Three) by Joe Ferguson Over the past two months we've been building PHP Easy Math a purposely simple example library to demonstrate how to build a reusable package for the PHP ecosystem.

The Workshop: Producing Packages (Part 2) by Joe Ferguson Last month we started building PHP Easy Math, a small library which can be included in PHP projects to provide simple methods to do basic addition and subtraction.

The Workshop: Producing Packages (Part 1) by Joe Ferguson This month we are diving into creating PHP packages and ensuring our packages are held to a high standard of having tests, license information, and other best practices for creating and maintaining…

The Workshop: Describe Your Tests with Kahlan by Joe Ferguson This month we're covering a full featured unit and behavior driven development (BDD) test framework named Kahlan.

The Workshop: Make PhpStorm work for you by Joe Ferguson This month we're going to dive into using PhpStorm and cover configuration from personal preferences to obeying standards and day to day usage.

The Workshop: CakePHP, Part 2 by Joe Ferguson Last month we covered the basics of CakePHP and how to get started creating routes, controllers, database tables, and retrieving data.

The Workshop: CakePHP - Part 1 by Joe Ferguson Welcome to the first installment of The Workshop, a column where we try out new tools and techniques to hone our craft as developers.

The Workshop: System Management with Ansible Ansible is an IT automation tool used for configuring systems and deploying applications.

I've recently spent a lot of dedicated time exploring Windows 10 as a development environment.

Users who reply to threads about $technology with comments such as: OMG!

I've noticed a trend lately where people who report issues on open source projects are seemingly using throwaway accounts to post issues and receive help.

I started the edx course "Introduction to Computer Science and Programming Using Python" last Thursday.

It's taken me 7?

Explaining Laravel Settler If you view the readme.md of the Laravel Settler repository you’ll likely notice the not so inviting “You probably don’t want this repo”.

Homestead Fifty Six was an amazing learning experience for me. gitstore.app was an invaluable tool that allowed me to spend more time building my project rather than building out invoices and card processing.

No, not quite the Laravel Shift you may be thinking of.

I recently converted my WordPress site over to a static site (using TightenCo's Jigsaw and ran into a problem I figured others might also: my Keybase.io web site verification failed because the URL to my verification file no longer exists.

The most recent major release of Homestead dropped support for PHP 5.6 and 7.0.

As promised this morning I'm delivering a proposal to the current and previous maintainers of the Joind.in team to build a team to take over operation of the hosted Joind.in service as well as how the project leadership should be structured with an emphas…

When I started speaking at technical events and conferences in 2015 Joind.in was critical in my growing as a presenter and speaker.

My friend Beau Simensen has been doing awesome stuff building and streaming his work on astrocasts.com.

I am giving a four hour Laravel tutorial before the main PHP Detroit conference.

I'm going to open this post with an apology for anyone who's corporate firewall gets triggered by this URL, but I just couldn't resist the title.

WARNING!