by Carl | Jun 26, 2020 | Open source, PHP, WordPress tips
I’m officially unofficially a WordPress core contributor! Earlier this month I decided that I wanted to contribute to WordPress. The first step I took was joining the WordPress slack channel and I mostly silently (with the odd sentence here and there) observed various...
by Carl | Jun 12, 2020 | PHP, WordPress tips
PHP 7.4.7 was released on June 11, 2020. It looks like this was a pure bug fix release. You can find a list of bug fixes here: PHP 7.4.7 change log PHP 8 Release Date PHP 8 will be released in November 26 2020 now instead of December 3, 2020. This schedule is still...
by Carl | Nov 18, 2018 | PHP, WordPress tips
There are many ways of architecting software. There are many ways of organising code. When an architect (in this case Software engineer or programmer) decides to create a plugin, he/she must decide how they’re going to organise the logic of the code. In the Single...
by Carl | Oct 3, 2018 | PHP
I have been working on researching this very topic the last while. This is such a broad topic with many opinions from so many people. When joining different agencies, I have been given rules to follow every time. There have been times when I argued we should do...
by Carl | Sep 28, 2018 | PHP
Traits In the Merriam Webster, a trait is defined as: an inherited characteristic a distinguishing quality In programming languages that support it, for example PHP, Java, Rust, etc., a trait provides a set of methods that implements behaviour to a class, and require...