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PHP mentions (56)

• PHP's Biggest Problem

  The PHP website is indeed one of the worst parts of the whole ecosystem. Just look at the landingpage (https://php.net) and compare it with those of other languages. There's not a single piece of PHP code on the page. No "what is PHP", no "why should I use it", and no "that's why PHP is great". It's just a news page showing the latest releases, and a small section for downloading PHP. And speaking of the website:... - Source: Hacker News / 4 months ago

• Self Hostable Multi-Location Uptime Monitoring

  My initial idea was to leverage the main application’s queue worker by deploying a queue worker remotely and setting up a secure connection between them using something like Wireguard. Vigilant is written in PHP using the Laravel framework, for queuing it uses Laravel Horizon. This is a queuing system built on top of Redis. All monitoring tasks in Vigilant are executed on this queue, it allows for multiple queues... - Source: dev.to / 10 months ago

• The Lost Art of Reading Documentation

  I remember being 15 (18 years ago 🥲) and learning PHP. Stack Overflow wasn’t as big yet, and finding answers often meant digging through forums filled with half-baked solutions, each dependent on specific hosting configurations. There was no universal standard, some hosts supported certain php.ini settings while others didn’t. The only reliable resource? The official PHP documentation: php.net. - Source: dev.to / over 1 year ago

• Using named arguments in php8 and up

  That's the first I've heard of it, and I like it! I can't tell you the number of trips to php.net to look at argument order for a function. Is it haystack/needle, or needle/haystack? Of course it could turn into the same thing w/ argument names (is it whole_name or full_name?), but I'm going to use it. Source: about 3 years ago

• How to display results from multiple SQL queries in the same table cell?

  Prepare to spend a fair bit of time reading and going back to phptherightway.com and php.net. I've also found this Tutorial from Envato Tuts+ to be quite good. Source: about 3 years ago

Chemistry mentions (3)

• What was working in IT like in the early 2000s?

  Windows 2003 sucked to install as it had multiple versions, but I built an all-in-one CD that allowed me to build out all of the original chemistry.com with minimal work. Source: about 3 years ago

• I (37M) recently got back into the dating pool after becoming widowed a few years ago. I can not believe how demoralizing and depressing it is. Is there anything I can do to make this suck less?

  So just look at it this way: every time you have one of those bad dates, that's one less bad date you'll have before you meet Ms. Right. You have a lot of people to sift through, but you'll meet a good person eventually. The odds are in your favor--when you last dated, you were in your 20s and there were a lot more single men than single women. Now in your late 30s, there are a lot more single women than single... Source: about 4 years ago

• Any experiences with matchmakers?

  My former psychology professor was introduced to her now husband through It's Just Lunch. He's in tech (not quite sure of his exact job), they both had traumatic divorces and have small children, and are average looking people, just above average intelligence and income. Anyhow, she stays in contact with many of her former students, and we were very happy for her. She and her husband have been together several... Source: over 5 years ago