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Why You Should Use the WordPress HTTP functions to Make API Requests
Sometimes your WordPress site needs to talk to other services around the web. This almost exclusively happens using the HTTP protocol. A common example of this is when your WordPress…
Erik
Sep 8, 2021
How to Use Xdebug for Advanced PHP Debugging
You could just debug your PHP code using dump debugging functions such as error_log, print, and var_dump, and let’s be honest, we’ve all done it a lot! While helpful sometimes,…
Iain
Apr 21, 2021
Optimizing Laravel Part 2: Improving Query Performance with Database Indexing
This is article 2 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” In my last article we looked at some simple commands and some basic code tweaks we could use to…
Gilbert Pellegrom
Mar 26, 2019
Optimizing Laravel Part 1: The Basics
This is article 1 of 4 in the series “Optimizing Laravel” Laravel is a very popular PHP framework these days and can be used for a range of web applications,…
Gilbert Pellegrom
Feb 5, 2019
Improve Page Load Time For Your WordPress Site with WP Offload S3: A Case Study
One of the great things about working at Delicious Brains is working on products that I use and love outside of work. I was a WP Migrate DB Pro customer…
Iain
Aug 7, 2018
Getting into Go for PHP developers
How many programming languages do you regularly work with? But you probably have your favorites. Myself, I’ve built my career on PHP and JavaScript. I’m always looking to learn something…
Peter Tasker
May 30, 2018
Building a Command Line Daemon in PHP to Emulate AWS SQSD
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…
Gilbert Pellegrom
May 30, 2017
Dependency Management and WordPress: A Proposal
‘Dependency hell’ is a problem faced by all software, and it has been rearing its ugly head in the WordPress space over the last few years with more and more…
Iain
Mar 22, 2017
Finding Bottlenecks in WordPress Code
A few months back Iain wrote about how our team pushes each other to be better developers, which included insights into how we improve code quality using tools such as…
Ashley
Nov 15, 2016
Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 3 – Elm
This is article 3 of 3 in the series “Building Reactive WordPress Plugins” In this final part of the Building Reactive WordPress Plugins series I’ll be exploring using Elm to…
Ian
Sep 20, 2016
Building a SaaS app with Laravel Spark: Web Uptime
If you keep up with the Laravel community at all you’ll be aware that Taylor Otwell recently released his much anticipated SaaS scaffolding library called Spark. Spark is a library…
Gilbert Pellegrom
Jun 21, 2016
Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 2 – Vue.js
This is article 2 of 3 in the series “Building Reactive WordPress Plugins” In the first part of this series I showed you how to build WP Cron Pixie, a…
Ian
Jun 7, 2016
How Our Team Pushes Each Other to be Better Developers
Since I started working at Delicious Brains, it seems we have been hiring pretty much constantly. Prospective new hires go through a few weeks trial where they work on our…
Iain
May 24, 2016
Examples of Refactoring PHP Code for Better Readability
Refactoring code is when you restructure existing code without changing its external behavior. Basically your aim is to make “bad” code better without changing the underlying functionality. There are plenty…
Gilbert Pellegrom
Apr 20, 2016
Building Reactive WordPress Plugins – Part 1 – Backbone.js
This is article 1 of 3 in the series “Building Reactive WordPress Plugins” This is the beginning of a short series of articles showing how to create a simple WordPress…
Ian
