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How cloud computing evolved and a march towards a Kubernetes future

At the turn of the millennium, when you needed a server, you had to get in touch with a hosting provider and place an order for a hosted server. Getting through the booking process meant you needed to be precise on the hardware required, because ultimately that company had to

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Input Specific Keyboards for Mobile Devices

Responsive design has revolutionised how we consume web content on mobile devices, making reading and interacting immeasurably easier on smaller screens. Mobile devices with digital touch-screen keyboards have a major advantage; being able to adapt to the content a user is interacting with. Using the correct input field types is

Rethink your e-commerce infrastructure with microservices

Microservices! a super hot buzz word at the moment which seems to be thrown around by every developer. If implemented properly, they can provide a huge benefit in both reliability and reduced maintenance. The microservice structure revolves around keeping the code base as small and optimised as possible. Keeping things

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Moving your PHP code into reusable composer packages

Writing code for anything takes time. Time usually spent lifting some components from other projects. After a while, you've probably already got 99% of the initial setup code for the new project elsewhere, floating around in your git repositories. Imagine just reusing this code from a single place in multiple

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Variable length argument lists for functions in PHP

Ever found yourself needing a function that can take an arbitrary number of arguments? Luckily it's pretty easy to do in PHP (as of 5.6) with something called a variadic function. [Pre 5.6 you would need to rely on using func_get_args()] PHP's sprintf function is a