Team building again
We've done various team-building days over the years, but this year's may qualify as one of the best. The weather was beautiful for our outing to sunny Swanage where we visited Cumulus Outdoors....
Mighty Hike
Congratulations to Damien on completing the Jurassic Coast Mighty Hike yesterday - an epic half marathon hike over the hilly Dorset coastline, for McMillan Cancer Support. He completed the 21km...
Pest: Run Only Tests In One File
Pest is our tool of choice when it comes to testing in PHP. It is built on top of the tried and tested PHP Unit and adds a bunch of useful helpers which improve the DX. One I use often is the...
Surviving in Scrubs
The NHS is one of those things that we never appreciate enough. Free healthcare at the point of delivery is something we utterly take for granted in the UK, but it's one of THE greatest things...
Ensuring All Stray PHP Files Are Run Through ECS
Easy Coding Style is a really nice code-style checking tool. It combines the best of both PHP-CS-Fixer and PHP Code Sniffer, it's easy to use and has a declarative config with all kinds of useful...
Streaming Command Output To The Browser
Following on from my last post about output buffer streaming I wondered if it was possible to stream the output from a Laravel Artisan command to the browser. You might be asking "but why?"...
Go directly to the browser. Do not pass GO, do not collect $200
Recently I needed to provide a simple CSV export function which allowed users to download some dynamic data. I wanted to use PHPs inbuilt fputcsv function so I didn't have to think about...
GDPR: can we justify third-party scripts?
I’ve written before about how managing privacy on websites is bigger than just deciding whether you need a cookie banner. In this post, we look in more detail at how websites process PII, how it...