Thank you to all the 2022 contributors! This year’s event was an awesome collection of writings. Catch up on any submissions you might have missed below!| 24 Days in December
The year was 2002; I was working as technical support for an internet provider. It wasn’t always busy, and although playing MUD and hanging out on IRC were some of the ways I and my colleagues used to pass time, eventually, I started blogging, and that is when things started to change. Looking at what…| 24 Days in December
Have you ever had an idea about how to improve PHP? Or maybe you yearn for a feature that another language has, that hasn’t made it into PHP yet? The great news is that PHP is improving with every release. One day the PHP feature you wish for might make it into the language. If…| 24 Days in December
If you’re reading this, then I assume you do software development of some sort. You write code. You “make sand think” as I heard someone describe it. If you write code then I believe you have some super powers. You may not know it. Or you may not believe it. But I know it, and…| 24 Days in December
Where tests have a significant and unpopular position in the workflow of most developers, some of us skip that part because we have no time to do it, and documentation is even less popular. “Documentation is a waste of time”; “Most documentation is already outdated before it is written”;“Once written, we will never look at…| 24 Days in December
I’m weirdly enamoured with the Disney Plus teen musical movie, “Zombies 3.” Mostly though, it’s not the movie itself. It’s this interview with the Asian, non-binary, queer actor Terry Hu who portrays a non-binary alien main character in the movie: In the interview, Terry says: “Holistic representation or true representation of a group or community…| 24 Days in December
While catching up with PHP 8.2 recently, I had a chuckle at how deprecated features get top billing — as they should! Knowing well ahead of time what things that work today will break in future versions of PHP keeps developers on their toes. With the mortality of your code in view, thanks to the…| 24 Days in December
I started my professional career with PHP in the year 2000. Professional in the sense that I got paid to program, not so much because of my knowledge of PHP. I wasn’t a newbie, though, or at least I didn’t feel like one. At this point, I had accumulated around ten years of experience programming…| 24 Days in December
For more than two years, Jens and Chema have worked hard to create what Phel is today. Phel is a Functional Programming language that compiles to PHP. It is a dialect of Lisp inspired by Clojure and Janet. What does Phel look like? Here is an example of some Phel code from the website. Why Phel? It is the result of many failed attempts to…| 24 Days in December
Note: This was originally tweeted as a far-too-long-should-have-been-a-blog-post thread on Twitter. It was the first thread of several (second, third, fourth) threads leading up to the launch of Othe| 24daysindecember.net