I recently came across a very interesting and useful platform called anvil. Anvil allows you to build and deploy web apps using nothing but Python rapidly. Building web applications with Python is fast and easy. They have tutorials to show you how t...
Open Source Open-source software is software with code that anyone can view, modify or extend. Why prefer Open Source Transparency - If you use open-source software, you can inspect the source code to ensure the software isn't doing anything you d...
If you have ever wanted to quickly test a php script but don't want to jump through hoops to get a local web server running you can make use of the built-in web server that comes with php. It's simple to use you just navigate to directory the file ...
This post will demonstrate how to create a PHP Development Environment using Docker and Docker Compose. The environment will consist of a php Apache server, an instance of mysql and and instance of phpMyAdmin for database administration. Prerequisit...
This post will explain how to create a program to simulate a race donition. What is a race condition? When multiple processes attempt to change the value of shared data at the same time, there is a race condition. The final value of the shared data i...
This post will demonstrate how to execute PHP Unit tests and run a PHP Code Sniffer using GitHub Actions. This can be a useful mechanism to ensure any code being merged into your codebases main branch is passing all tests and is complying with your s...
This blog post will explain how to set up a PHP project to use a PHP code sniffer to ensure code conventions are correctly used in a project.I will be using PHP_CodeSniffer and installing it using Composer. The first thing to do is to create a compos...
Recently I came across a situation where issuing the git status command showed different results on Windows and Linux for the same git repository. On Windows, running the command showed that there were no files to commit and that there were no untrac...
What is a Kanban board? A Kanban Board is a tool used to help visualize tasks. The board shows every task and what the current status (i.e not started, in progress, complete) of each task is in such a way that it is easy to see what the status of a g...