A tutorial was published on how to build a simple Slack bot in Node.js that tells Chuck Norris jokes, for some amusing fun. The bot is open source and available on GitHub and NPM.

This blog post provides a beginner's guide to managing versioning and deployment of static websites using Git for version control, Flightplan.js for automated deployment, and Nginx for serving. It outlines a simple yet complete workflow for implementing continuous delivery and rollbacks.

This post highlights 6 important rules to keep in mind when developing performant web applications: avoid premature optimization, do the minimum required work, defer non-critical tasks, leverage caching, avoid N+1 queries, and design for horizontal scaling. Following these guidelines will help you w...

Keybase.io is a new service that combines asymmetric cryptography with a social network. It allows users to easily share public keys and authenticate messages by linking keys to profiles on Twitter, GitHub, Reddit, etc. The service provides encrypted messaging and bitcoin wallet pairing to make adop...

The flickr-set-get command line app makes it easy to download entire Flickr galleries. It uses the Flickr API and Node.js asynchronous programming to download photos in parallel. The post explains the motivation behind the project, the technologies used, and how the asynchronous code works.

This tutorial shows step-by-step how to bootstrap a Lumen project, configure MySQL, create migrations and models, seed the database, define routes and templates to build a fully working motivational quote web app in less than 30 minutes.

The Symfony HttpKernel Component allows interacting with the response generation through events. The Kernel Response event permits modifying the response before sending it out. Two examples show how to use it to add custom headers and cookies without touching controller logic.

The author shares 5 powerful quotes and lessons learned from mentors during an intensive 3-month accelerator program in Ireland focused on startups and entrepreneurship. Key takeaways include the importance of passion, understanding customers' problems, building a great team, and working tirelessly ...

By writing a Dockerfile we can containerize a simple Go echo server app. The Dockerfile installs Go, copies the server code, exposes the port, and defines the command to run the app. Building the Dockerfile produces an image that can be run as a container. The containerized Go app can then be easily...

This blog post explains how to implement email open tracking in Symfony using a transparent tracking pixel. It provides code examples for generating a tracking image response and handling the tracking logic in a controller.

ORM Cheatsheet is a useful website that serves as a quick reference guide for developers struggling to remember how to use common PHP ORM libraries like Doctrine 2 and Propel. It provides examples for annotations, relationships, and configuration.

The author received 3 invites to try Atom.io, a new text editor built by GitHub using Node.js. They find it promising but slower than SublimeText. The post shares the invites with readers who follow the author on social media and comment.

Learn how to reset a lost MySQL root password by restarting the server with disabled security checks. This allows resetting the password directly in the database. Useful when locked out but reduces security temporarily.

This article shows how to build a simple command line application using the Symfony Console component and Pimple dependency injection container. It provides a step-by-step guide on structuring the code, defining services, configuring parameters and wiring everything together to create a executable c...

The post explains how to integrate twig.js with BazingaJsTranslationBundle to handle translations consistently between PHP and JavaScript. It shows how to build a custom Twig extension to translate strings with the Bazinga Translator object and handle differences in parameter formatting.

This post collects resources and provides a graph to understand how Symfony authentication works behind the scenes, from the initial request to the final authenticated token. It clarifies the relationships between key classes like firewall, authentication provider and authentication listener.

This post explains how to add support for Instagram to the PHPoAuthUserData library by writing a dedicated extractor class. It illustrates the concepts of loaders, normalizers and mapping to extract user profile data from the Instagram API.

The PHPoAuthUserData library provides a simple interface to extract common user data like name, username, ID from various OAuth providers. It builds on top of PHPoAuthLib.

This post explains how to install Dropbox command line client on a Linux server, create a dedicated user and setup it as a service to have automated backups on Dropbox cloud.

A web developer fascinated by the web since childhood discusses the motivation behind starting a blog - to share thoughts on web development trends and experiments in a personal space.