StackOverflow, the greatest online resource for developers, has announced the availability of the StackOverflow for Teams. This is a spin off service which allows developer teams to run private instances of StackOverflow for knowledge and information sharing needed for non-public projects.
This sounds like a great tool to replace a variety of missing and outdated information in wiki’s, README files, and emails that every software project eventually gathers.
AWS Developer Blog ran this post a while back – “PHP application logging with Amazon CloudWatch Logs and Monolog“, in which they show how to use Monolog and Amazon CloudWatch together in any PHP application. It goes beyond a basic configuration of connecting the two, all the way into setting up log metrics, etc.
“Working With PHP Arrays in the Right Way” is a collection of tips and tricks on the array functions in PHP. PHP is weird, to say the least, when it comes to arrays, compared to many other programming languages, so articles like that are useful for pointers to better ways of doing things.
I think that even experienced PHP developers will find a bit or two that they either didn’t know or forgot about.
Mailtrap is a handy service for any developer or team that needs to test outgoing emails from test and staging environments, without spamming real users. It’s basically a fake SMTP server with some controls of where and how to forward messages, and ways of analyzing, sharing, and testing of HTML rendering.
There are very few things that make you think of time and remind you how old you are like that email that I received another day. Red Hat Bugzilla sent me an automated email about the update on the bug in Fedora 3 (!!!) that I commented on … in November of 2004. Yeah, that’s good 13+ years ago.
This is so long ago, it’s almost unbelievable. Back in those days, I was working at PrimeTel and even had a slightly different spelling to my surname. Oh, boy.