Keeping in constant communication with your customers is a necessity for most businesses now days. Most companies do this via email and SMS messaging, but keeping in contact via Facebook Messenger can also be a great tool in increasing sales and customer satisfaction. Even better, having a Facebook Messaging BOT to automate your customer’s initial […]
Recently I’ve had to rewrite portions of a PHP legacy application that was written in a company’s proprietary legacy framework, in order for it to be test friendly and much more maintainable. In order to accomplish this, I’ve added a few key Symfony components to their framework. The result was that the application was easier
In my development environment I’ve been using Vagrant with Virutalbox for a while now; however, even with NFS, with the VM properly provisioned with enough resources, and running under Linux, the environment’s performance was still just barely tolerable. It’s performance compared to Ubuntu natively on a Samsung 850 pro SSD left me wishing for more..
This tutorial shows you how to leverage some of PHP’s functional programming abilities. This is just a simple solution to Problem 22 from ProjectEuler.net, but it’s a good example of showing how to use a hybrid of OOP and Functional Programming to arrive at the correct solution. We’ll use basic OOP for the structure and
