14th May 2016 8:00 pm

PHP frameworks like Laravel aren't really set up to handle real-time events properly, so if you want to build a real-time app, you're…

4th April 2016 7:55 pm

Nowadays, Laravel tends to be my go-to PHP framework, to the point that we use it as our default framework at work. A big part of this is…

26th March 2016 9:30 pm

PostgreSQL has excellent support for geographical data thanks to the PostGIS extension, and Django allows you to take full advantage of it…

18th March 2016 7:42 pm

In the last couple of weeks I've been working on a PHP web app. Nothing unusual there, except this was the first time we'd used PHP 7 in…

26th January 2016 11:40 pm

It's quite common to have to integrate an external API into your web app for some of your functionality. However, it's a really bad idea to…