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...
Sometimes You Don't Need A Dependency
When developing new features it is all too easy to go immediately to packagist.org and see if that wheel has already been invented. Most of the time this is the right approach. We don't need new...
Livewire Testing: Undefined array key "fingerprint" Error
Recently I've been using Filament CMS quite a lot. It makes use of Livewire through out and as with any new technology I've been exploring what it can do. While writing a component test I ran...
Completely Hiding The Wordpress Version Is Hard
We develop and maintain a couple of WordPress sites. There are a number of things we will do as standard to secure each site. One of these is running WPScan. It checks for all kinds of things but...