This text is the first in a series of articles whose purpose is to demonstrate how to build apps that combine the multiple potencies of ReactPHP and ReactJS. Introduction There exists a plethora of stacks — combinations of technologies (languages and-or frameworks) typically canonized as fancy abbreviations reflective of individual…

After five elucidatory posts about Functional Programming in PHP, I decided to include the rest of the series I — at the time — foresaw continuing as a series of blog posts, much like this one, in an eight-chapter opus. Upgrading, and therefore, improving the quality of the offerings of…

https://play.ht/articles/a5f8df9b0ffb There is a plethora of data structures in the Computer Programming discourse: everything from the quintessential primitives — integers, floats, strings, and the like — to composite types, amalgams of the aforestated primitives — linked lists, objects, and arrays, among others — are essential in crafting a variety of…

If you have given some of my earlier blog posts enough heed to attempt to understand the amalgam of PHP-implementable ideas at their core, you might notice my passion for CouchDB. I find that CouchDB interactions are apt for a period defined by a web-service zeitgeist: the service’s REST…

In retrospect, 2018 delivered a plethora of Hip Hop music. Notable album releases in every month of the year ensured a ubiquity of the genre of Hip-Hop. After listening to multiple records many times throughout the year, I settled on a list of albums that I feel — warrant…

PHP is on an upward trajectory — the more recent improvements to the language are a testament to this postulate. Preloading — a feature inspired by the Java Hotspot Virtual Machine — is yet another enhancement to the PHP runtime. Initiated as an RFC by Dmitry Stogov, preloading presents…

My passion for Functional Programming is no esoteric subject. The book I recently finished is not only emphasis of my genuine state of enamoredness but is also a symbol of a nascent willingness to blossom as a software engineer. The book, an eight-chapter volume has a rich diversity of…

PHP arrays are supercharged. Arrays in PHP are almost a defacto data structure. Useful for a litany of operations — serialization, JSON data manipulation, and even flow-control to mention but a few, PHP arrays are incredibly ubiquitous. There are, however, certain things that are negated by many array users. …

It is no secret that PHP has declined in popularity in recent years. The explanations for the decline of one of the web’s darlings are quite colorable: the rise of JavaScript, the growth of more robust languages, and the inefficiencies of the PHP language core. I get a lot…