Waaay back in 2003 Joel Spolsky wrote about Unicode and why every developer should understand what it is and why it’s important. I remember reading that article (and have since… Read more
This is article 10 of 11 in the series “Hosting WordPress Yourself” I originally started writing Hosting WordPress Yourself back in February 2015, which makes this series over three years… Read more
I recently saw this tweet from Danny van Kooten which reminded me of one of the many major gripes developers have with WordPress – supporting ancient PHP versions: STOP SUPPORTING… Read more
I recently built a command line daemon in PHP to emulate AWS SQSD for the purposes of testing in Mergebot. As it turns out, one of the benefits of building… Read more
Sometimes when you’re building a project there are parts of the architecture that exist on production that don’t exist on your development machine. Those missing parts (like proprietary software that’s… Read more
cURL is the workhorse of the modern internet. As its tagline says, cURL is a utility piece of software used to ‘transfer data with urls‘. According to the cURL website,… Read more
This is article 9 of 11 in the series “Hosting WordPress Yourself” It’s been 2 years since I started writing the Hosting WordPress Yourself series, and in that time a… Read more
The hooks system is a central pillar of WordPress and with the 4.7 release a major overhaul of how it works was merged. The Trac ticket that initially raised an… Read more
This is article 2 of 2 in the series “Server Management for Beginners” This post is part 2 of the Server Management for Beginners series. In our last tutorial we… Read more
There’s no doubt that building a web server from scratch is a great learning experience, and one that I recommend all WordPress developers undertake. Doing so will give you a… Read more
