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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 / 2 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 / 8 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

UrbanSitter mentions (5)

• Sanders introduces bill to raise minimum teacher pay to $60,000 a year

  What is that average cost of day care per child? The average in the USA per hour, according to urbansitter.com, is $18.36 for one child, and 21.23 for two children. What if you had 26 children I day care? Source: over 3 years ago

• How young did you leave your child with a sitter?

  There are tons of childcare websites and most of them require background checks. I always used care.com sittercity.com urbansitter.com Just make sure you call references and do a trial run with them! Also a perk if they are CPR certified but there are tons of resources out there. Source: over 3 years ago

• What should I expect to pay for a babysitter?

  I am a new parent and I have not yet had a babysitter (baby is 6mo old) but I was looking at urbansitter.com and it looks like around $100/year for the site membership fee and around $30/hr for a local babysitter. Source: over 3 years ago

• help. we are SO burnt out but don’t trust anyone to watch the baby. what do i do?! 😭

  Find nanny's at the park, use care.com or urbansitter.com they do background checks, you can interview them and do a meet and greet and get recs. Source: over 4 years ago

• How much money would you give up to quit your job and be SAHM?

  We tried care.com, urbansitter.com, a nanny agency, the doula network, a local facebook group, and word of mouth. We interviewed a bunch. The number one issue was that we were not willing to pay them under the table but needed part time help. We were willing to pay extra, but nannies didn't even know how much extra to charge, they just didn't want the work. Source: over 4 years ago