A big part of my work has to do with code. I’ve worked as system administrator – installing, patching, and configuring someone else’s code. I’ve worked as independent programmer, writing code on my own. I also programmed as part of the team. And on top of that, I worked as Team Leader and Project Manager, where I had to interact a lot with programmers. Programming world on its own is as huge as the universe. There is always something to learn. When I find something worthy or something that I understand enough to write about, I share it in this category.
“12 Best API Monitoring Tools for Your Business” lists a bunch of services that are useful for the monitoring of your API. Read the whole thing for more details. Here’s the list of the services covered:
Many software projects deal with the lists of countries and currencies. Some of the most common tasks include country an currency dropdowns, country flags next to the IP, or pre-filling country codes in phone numbers.
All of that information is of course standardized and you often just need a library or two to provide and use it. And there are many of those. We’ve been mainly using these two:
Today, however, I came across a better option – antonioribeiro/countries, which is a collection of country and currency information for Laravel PHP framework. Laravel is not required though. This library provides way more information and in a much more flexible way. It includes:
“Practical Cryptography for Developers” is a free book (with GitHub repository) by Svetlin Nakov, which aims at teaching developers some of the most practical concepts of cryptography. The book covers hashing functions, random generators, symmetric and asymmetric keys, digital signatures, and more. Each chapter is rich with diagrams, illustrations, code samples, as well as exercises.
Now that PHP 7+ sorted out a whole bunch of problems with type-hinting of parameters, return values, variables and properties, we turn our attention to somewhat deeper issues.
Array is a native citizen in PHP. Arrays are very convenient and are widely used. However, if you stop and think about the times where you had to figure out somebody else’s code, I’m pretty sure complex arrays will come to mind at some point.
I’ve recently came across two completely independent blog posts which talk exactly about this particular area of problems:
Both are explaining the issues very well and make valid points. As far as solutions and better ways go, apart from the approaches mentioned in these blog posts, I also remembered a recent blog post from which I linked to the data transfer object library, that solves exactly that.
RoadRunner is a high-performance PHP application server, load-balancer and process manager, written in Goland. It sounds like an excellent replacement for the built-in PHP server, and even more than that – it’s production-ready. And it works on Windows too.
RoadRunner is an open source (MIT licensed) high-performance PHP application server, load balancer and process manager. It supports running as a service with the ability to extend its functionality on a per-project basis.
RoadRunner includes PSR-7/PSR-17 compatible HTTP and HTTP/2 server and can be used to replace classic Nginx+FPM setup with much greater performance and flexibility.