code review Effective code review with two simple rules Code reviews are quickly becoming an industry standard practice for improving software quality. Open source workflows slowly become business best practices as businesses start to appreciate the costs of technical debt and become
naming Semantic method naming Correctly naming things is the most difficult programming task, along with other documentation tasks. However, this is only because we often afford these tasks insufficient consideration. As with most things, the more we
coercion Embracing coercion in PHP Coercion is implicit typecasting for scalar types (integer, float, boolean and string). In this article we look at how we can use coercion as an elegant alternative to explicit typecasting. Coercing to integer
regex Ideal regex delimiters in PHP We want to find regular expression delimiters that enable us to avoid inserting additional escape sequences into our patterns. This is ideal when we want to inject foreign patterns where we can't guarantee
reference New PHP 5 syntax reference We briefly review the major new PHP language syntax introduced in each version since 5.3 – the version that birthed the features that paved the way for the prevailing PHP renaissance. Always Every
array Array merging in PHP Correctly merging two arrays into a single array requires thinking about the type of data we have. Is our data flat or does it contain nested arrays? What should happen when both arrays
