As seasoned PHP developers, we often find ourselves spending a significant portion of our time inside an IDE. PhpStorm, JetBrains’ flagship IDE for PHP, is incredibly powerful—but with great power comes complexity. Optimizing your workflow can make the difference....
While PHPUnit helps you test in isolation, Behat enables you to test integration and behavior—the way your application is perceived by users or external systems....
“The common mistake that many developers do is that they more or less dump inputs blindly.” — Daniel Deogun The Authors...
Boost PhpStorm’s speed with practical performance tweaks—optimize memory, trim plugins, and fine-tune indexing. Includes Symfony-specific tips to reduce overhead and keep your IDE fast, even on large projects....
For experienced developers, writing tests is no longer a question of if, but how well. Yet, too often we encounter codebases where writing meaningful, isolated unit tests feels like a chore. Dependencies are hardcoded, side effects abound, and every test becomes a fragile house of cards....
Learning Git: A Hands-On and Visual Guide to the Basics of Git is a thoughtfully crafted introduction to one of the most essential tools in modern software and content development....
