23rd June 2018 12:03 pm

I haven't started a new CodeIgniter project since 2014, and don't intend to, but on occasion I've been asked to do maintenance work on…

3rd June 2018 3:30 pm

Logging to text files is the simplest and most common logging setup for web apps, and it works fine for relatively small and simple…

13th May 2018 1:55 pm

Recently I had the occasion to check out MariaDB's implementation of full-text search. As it's a relatively recent arrival in MySQL and…

10th May 2018 10:50 pm

PHP isn't the first language that springs to mind when it comes to machine learning. However, it is practical to use PHP for machine…

29th April 2018 7:59 pm

Recently I've had the occasion to add a series of console commands to a legacy application. This can be made straightforward by using the…