What time is it?
A helpful collection of resources about working with timezones for developers.…
Don’t mistake the service worker as a small thing
Service workers let you decide what a user experiences on your website when there is, is not or is limited network connectivity. The service worker is a game changer. It is no small thing; not because we can make web applications work offline but because we can fully control how…
My Programming Naming Philosophy
Some thoughts I have on the naming of functions, variables, classes, files, and folder. These thoughts do not have anything to do with project/code structure or architecture. I apply these thoughts to almost every language I program in, but a language can impact what ideas I implement. Patterns Name…
The JavaScript Event Loop
I received that feeling of excitement, the unlocking of the mind, watching Philip Roberts unpack the JavaScript event loop at JSConf EU 2014. I'd like to share that moment and hopefully the feeling. Who knew setTimeout(function(){ do_stuff(); }, 0); would be so helpful.…
Import and Export MySQL and PostgreSQL
There are many ways to export and import data from a database. You can use a Mac client like Sequal Pro for MySQL, for example. You can do the same for PostgreSQL, though I have not settled on a Mac client for PostgreSQL. Mac clients aside, you need can import…
Raw PHP and MySQL Eager Loading
Working with complicated and joined data sets can be tricky for MySQL database performance. For example, What if you need to load multiple authors and their books from a database. How would you work around the N+1 problem and avoid unnecessary queries to the database without an expensive join…
Character Encoding: UTF-8, PHP, MySQL and Sequel Pro
I love Sequel Pro. However, the default encoding is latin1 and you should be using a form of Unicode like utf8mb4. The next time you add a database with Sequel Pro be sure to select UTF-8 Unicode (utf8mb4) if you want to skip character encoding headaches. Make proper character encoding…
Server Level CRON Backups
Backing up files and storing them in a remote location should be done on a regular basis. Backups are vital. They ensure your code and assets are available if your server is hacked, destroyed and when your data is lost or corrupted. In WordPress, you could use a plugin like…
Installing xDebug for PHP7
Xdebug deepens debugging PHP apps and websites to a level you can't receive from the manual process of using code level var_dump(). Setup To install Xdebug for PHP7 on Ubuntu you will need to do so manually. Ubuntu 15 and lower will not come with a package for PHP7…
Making an API endpoint in WordPress using add_rewrite_rule
There are many ways to build an API in WordPress. I personally like to build them against the base URL. If I was building one for this site it might be http://php-built.com/php-built-api/v1/. I like to prefix my API's to help prevent conflicts. If I was using…