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374. PHP 7 Migration guide Part 3: 11 Changed Functions and 21 New Functions

Updated on: 2016-04-27

Posted on: 2016-04-27

In the first two parts of our series on PHP 7 migration guide we cover backwards incompatible changes and new features.

Read this article to learn more about functions that were changed and other new functions that were added.

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373. Using Microsoft Visual Studio as PHP IDE with the PHP Tools extension: Part 1 PHP Editing Support

Updated on: 2016-11-24

Posted on: 2016-04-26

Microsoft Visual Studio is a very popular IDE among developers using Windows but it does not come with built-in support to PHP. On the other hand, 75% of the PHP developers use Windows when they are developing their PHP projects.

Fortunately for Visual Studio fans there is an extension called PHP Tools that adds PHP support to that IDE and works with the Microsoft Visual Studio.

Read this first part of the article to learn how to use the PHP Tools extension so you can setup and edit PHP code projects from Visual Studio.

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368. 10 Aspects on Which BitBucket Is Better Than GitHub

Updated on: 2020-08-04

Posted on: 2016-04-18

Most of us are familiar with Git, which is a very popular version control system. GitHub contributed to make Git very popular to the point that some people even confuse Git with GitHub.

However there are several other project hosting sites that provide better features than GitHub. BitBucket is one of those sites.

Read this article to learn about those features of BitBucket that in my opinion make it better than GitHub.

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365. How to Effectively Prepare for your Technical Interview & Coding Challenge

Updated on: 2016-04-15

Posted on: 2016-04-12

Doing well in technical interviews is important for all developers to succeed in getting good jobs.

Read this article to learn about 5 important tips on how to get good jobs by getting ready for technical interviews.

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364. PHP Articles Report March 2016 Edition

Updated on: 2016-04-06

Posted on: 2016-04-06

This is the March edition of the podcast hangout recorded by Manuel Lemos and Arturs Sosins to comment on the latest outstanding PHP Articles published recently.

They commented on articles about using caching with AWS S3 to reduce costs and increase speed, developing applications that use Google search API to find how high your sites rank, interacting with users via SMS messages wuth the dotGo engine, and the salary you could be earning as software developer in different cities.

Listen to the podcast, or watch the hangout video to learn more about these PHP articles.

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362. Make Your WordPress Posts More Attractive with the Visualizer Charts and Graphs Plugin

Updated on: 2016-04-04

Posted on: 2016-04-04

Users that read blog posts love to see graphics that visualize the information that the posts are talking about. One way to include nice graphics in your WordPress blog posts is to present charts or graphs that to visualize interesting data sets.

Read this article to learn how to embed nice interactive charts and graphs in your WordPress blog using the Visualizer plugin.



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360. Fast Debugging of PHP Code Using PHPEd Part1: Finding Bugs in Code Running on a Web Server

Updated on: 2016-03-30

Posted on: 2016-03-30

Debugging PHP code is a crucial activity that most developers have to do frequently. Sometimes simple echo or error_log calls will do, but for more complicated bugs, a single step debugger integrated with your IDE is the way to go to understand what is wrong.

PhpED is one of the oldest PHP IDEs that integrates this possibility to debug PHP scripts running them step by step either from a command line, or even in a Web server which is the most common and hard to debug environment.

Read this article to learn how PHP code debugging works and how you can do it from the comfort of a PHP IDE like PhpED.

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359. PHP 7 Migration Guide Part 2: 19 New Exciting Features In PHP 7

Updated on: 2016-03-28

Posted on: 2016-03-28

PHP 7 was a great step forward in the evolution of PHP. Many things were added, changed and removed.

In the first part of this article it was covered the things that were changed or removed and may break your PHP code that ran with the past versions.

Read this article part to learn more in detail about the new features and improvements of PHP 7 that you can take advantage.

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357. PHP 7 Migration Guide Part 1: 10 Backwards Incompatibile Changes

Updated on: 2016-03-21

Posted on: 2016-03-21

PHP 7 is out since December 2015 and several updates were released. Its advantages compare to PHP 5.x are huge but first you need to consider what are the backwards incompatible changes so you can evaluate the effort that it may take you, so it does not break your existing applications.

Read this article to understand 10 of the most relevant backwards incompatible changes that you need to pay attention before you migrate to PHP 7.

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355. How to Use Queue To Speedup PHP Processing Tasks Part 2: Processing Queued Tasks

Updated on: 2016-03-09

Posted on: 2016-03-09

As it was explained in the first part of the article, queues are great to defer the processing long tasks, allowing to provide faster user interfaces so users do not have to wait for those tasks to complete.

Read this article to learn how to efficiently process queued tasks in PHP and keep track of the results.

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