Technical Documentation: How to Avoid a Nightmare Project
A client came to us with their WooCommerce shop last week. The request seemed simple enough: add a tiered discount for VIP customers. But when…
Category: PHP Development
That ‘Fun’ Side Project That’s Now a Total Nightmare?
Had a client come to me in a panic a while back. He’d built a small inventory management plugin for his WooCommerce store. A classic…
GrumPHP: A Pragmatic Local Continuous Integration Workflow
Had a new dev join the team a while back. Sharp guy, good attitude. But his first few commits were… inconsistent. Braces all over the…
The Right Way to Handle WordPress Password Hashing
I got a call from a client with a membership site that’s been around since the dawn of time. They wanted to upgrade their security,…
Stop Fearing Serverless: Your Big PHP Site Can Handle It
I was on a call last week with a client running a pretty big WooCommerce store. They’re getting ready for a huge Black Friday sale…
Stop Writing Messy Laravel Controllers with Static Factory Methods
I was looking at a controller for a client’s project the other day, and it was a mess. They have a `Subscription` model, and you…
Laravel Vapor Logs: Getting Papertrail to Actually Work
I had a client running a pretty slick setup on Laravel Vapor. But they had this ghost in the machine—an error that would pop up…
How to Reliably Test Stripe Checkout with Laravel Dusk
A client came to us a while back with a Laravel subscription app that was bleeding money. Users would go through the Stripe checkout, their…
Scaling PHP: Ditching Servers for Serverless Simplicity
I had a client, a mid-sized e-commerce operation, who was constantly battling performance issues with their custom data feeds and background processing. We’re talking about…
Stop the WordPress Plugin Chaos: Namespaces and Coding Standards Done Right
I got a call last month from a client whose flagship WordPress plugin, a custom solution for managing complex product variations, was starting to buckle….