These days, most of my work is very related to the online world. Building web sites, reviewing web applications, integrating with web services, coordinating people who are far away from each other, etc. Whenever I find a new tool or service or an innovative, interesting idea about working online, I share it in this category.
“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.
Here are some very exciting news from the WordPress fronts: WordPress 5 will feature the built-in Gutenberg project. Gutenberg is a complete rebuilt of the WordPress administration and content publishing experience, with much faster and cleaner user interface and a whole array of new features, such as “page builder” functionality.
Here are a couple of links with more information on how to get yourself ready in time:
“Unit Testing – The Big Picture” is a super useful for those of us who need a refresher or an overview of what software testing is in general, and how unit testing relates to other types of testing in particular. It covers a bit of history of testing, different approaches, terminology, and more.
“Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Prevention Cheat Sheet” is a list of general recommendations and specific techniques to protect web applications against the CSRF attacks. That is, before the CSRF attacks will become obsolete.