Author: murat

PHP says “Nooo” to my integer

Another eye-opener from PHP is the unexpected behaviour of integer filters. Here is a test…

PHP is dying faster because … (part 2)

PHP 5.0 was released in July 2004. Almost 11 years and we know that they…

PHP is dying faster because … (part 1)

PHP was well-known for its speed of development (no compilation or formal build process); even…

Cookie-less REST API with Laravel

We learned to rely on browser cookies for many years. Some of us don't even…

Online Relocation: Moving from 1and1 to AWS Route 53 and Digital Ocean

Even though it is time consuming, I think we have to reconsider our web hosting…

EU VAT Number Validation SOAP Service

We are a VAT registered company in UK, and I am the lead developer of…

Architecture is everything, plan for speed at the beginning

We've recently needed to compare our file storage areas on Amazon and Rackspace. We're mainly…

Dreamer

He'd been looking for something all his life, something was missing.. One day, he unexpectedly…

Composer for PHP: Do we really need it?

If you are wondering what we are dealing with in PHP world on a day…

PHP get_browser function to detect user’s OS and browser details

I've just lost a day because of this stupid browser_name_regex property: e.g. "ยง^mozilla/5\.0 \(.*windows nt…