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The Shift

In recent years, applications have become bloated and extremely complex. With the advent of Javascript frontend frameworks like React and Vue, we have essentially doubled or tripled the workload, by creating essentially two or more isolated syst

Navigating the Java Upgrade: A Business Owner's Guide to Modernisation

You have a business running on a legacy Java system and you need to upgrade. A bunch of questions come to mind: What is a project upgrade?What’s the upgrade process? How much will it cost?

An approach to instant Java upgrades

A very good friend of mine, Tomas Votruba created Rector, a command line tool for instant upgrades and automated refactoring in PHP. 

What are coding standards and how can we use them?

You may have heard of a bunch of terms thrown around like, static analysis, Rector, Easy Coding Standards and Phpstan. But what are they, what do they mean and how can we use them?  Firstly, static analysis, refers to the proces

Why I use ArrayCollections over arrays?

We all should know by now that array are terrible for typing we can create a single array containing, an object, string, int and boolean, like so: $array = [ new Quote(quote: 'That\'s all any of us are: amateur