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John and Eric share more of the day to day behind the scenes work that goes on at php[architect]. This includes a lot of talk on php[tek]. They also talk about the latest edition of the magazine “Box of PHP”.

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This month John and Eric discuss some of the greater articles coming in the August 2022 release, “PHP Blueprint”.

Articles include Feature contributions “Converting relational database models into a graph” and “Universal Vim”. We also have The Workshop “Blueprinting our Application”, DDD Alley “Exploring Boundaries”, PHP Puzzles “Decimals to Fractions”, Finally “The Dangerous Safety of Comfort”, Education Station “Using Git to your Advantage”, Security Corner “Broken Authentication”, Drupal Dab “Create Content Type in Drupal 9”, and more.

This month John and Eric discuss some of the greater articles coming in the July 2022 release, “Database Freedom”.

We start off with two great feature articles, “Customizing Drupal Feeds For Smooth Migrations” by Doug Groene and “MongoDB and PHP—-A Perfect Match” by Joel Lord.

Our monthly columnists have been hard at work as well. Over in Education Station, Chris Tankersley gives us “What is Git Doing”? Then Eric Mann helps with “Demystifying Multifactor Authentication” on Security Corner. Continuing down through DDD Alley, Edward Barnard brings up “Structure by Use Case”. The Workshop will help improve our development environments with the article “PHP from Virtual Machine to Docker” by Joe Ferguson. Nicola Pignatelli tells you everything you’ve ever wanted to know to “Create a Custom Module in Drupal 9” in the Drupal Dab. If you’re a puzzle fan, check out this very counterintuitive PHP Puzzles column, “The Birthday Paradox” by Oscar Merida. Learn all about the PSR-7 HTTP Message Interface” in Frank Wallen’s PSR Pickup.

And finally{}, Beth Tucker Long talks about the pitfalls behind the commonly used “Blind” talk selection process used by many conferences and user groups.

This month John and Eric discuss some of the greater articles coming in the June 2022 release, “Another Bright Idea”.

If you enjoy coding in PHP and have a Philips Hue smart bulb, this month’s feature article, ‘Illuminating Smart Light Bulbs With PHP,’ from Sherri Wheeler, is for you. She shares a great package and code on how to control your lights using PHP. Dariusz Gafka’s contribution ‘Building Solid and Maintainable PHP Applications using DDD and Messaging with Ecotone Framework,’ touches on Domain-Driven Design and the Ecotone Framework with tons of sample code.

In Education Station this month, Chris Tankersley introduces us to the often-overlooked Programming Paradigm of Event-Driven Programming in his article ‘Event-Driven Programming.’ He opens the door to the concept of your application by listening for events and then acting on those events when they happen. Eric Mann brings us ‘Assessing Cybersecurity Risks’ in this month’s Security Corner. Understanding different threat categories are essential to any developer who plans to put a line of code on the public internet. Eric breaks this down and helps you identify and grade risk.

Now that Edward Barnard has gotten you started and organized with his column from last month, this month, he will address failures in his article ‘Random and Rare Failures.’ He will explain why you want to be on the lookout for random and rare failures and how you can capture them.

If you’ve ever been curious to give the Symfony Framework a try, I’ve got some excellent news. In this month’s The Workshop, Joe Ferguson brings you ‘A Night with Symfony.’ He shares everything you’ll need to know to get you up and running with the Symfony framework, from installing it, getting a server up and running, and writing code. Time to dust off your brain cells for Oscar Merida’s PHP Puzzles column ‘Clues for Hues’, where he shows solutions for last month’s Guess the Colors puzzle. Hey, Hue smart lights can change color. I bet you could develop a crossover article after reading this month’s magazine. And as always, he brings another challenge for you to work on until the next release.

And in Finally{}, Beth Tucker Long shares ‘Pulled From All Angles’ where she points out some of the hypocrisy in our industry and some of the back and forth of the “shoulds” and “should nots.”

Ken Marks wraps up his series on working with a Raspberry Pi. Ken has done such a fantastic job taking us through his process of using a Raspberry Pi and writing code on that Pi in a real-life scenario at home. In this final installment, Ken establishes a workflow for sending an accelerometer text message using SendMail.

Also, this month, Joe Clermont contributed his article, “*Learning How to Learn.*” In an industry where there is a real need to always learn, Joe shares some techniques to help us with continual learning using technics such as learning by doing and learning by sharing.

In Chris Tankersly’s column Education Station he discusses “*Continuous Code,”* where he discusses continuous code, automated testing, continuous integration, and continuous delivery. PSR Pickup’s Frank Wallen shares an article on “*PSR-3 Logging Interface*” and talks about different log levels and messages. In Eric Mann’s Security Corner, we learn about “*Classifying Ransomware*” and the differences between them.

May brings a new recurring column by Marian Pop focused on the Laravel Framework and Ecosystem. This month he introduces us to “*Pest Control*” and discusses the PEST testing package. Edward Bernard’s DDD Alley gets hands-on with “*Get Organized and Get Started*” and shares his thoughts on some of the steps to getting a project set up with code first and implementing a strategic domain-driven design.

Oscar Merida adds some “*Controlled Randomness*” in this month’s PHP Puzzles. It’s fun for the whole family, provided your entire family are passionate developers. Lastly, in finally{}, Beth Tucker-Long talks about “*Survival of the Fiendish*” and shares her experience of trying to address a simple problem that grows more complex around every turn. That would be an example of a bad problem to have.

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This month, John and Eric introduce the new Drupal Dab column by Nicola Pignatelli which will be focused on the Drupal CMS system. They also discuss the How to Hack you Home with a Raspberry Pi series is going.

Chris Tankersley takes us down the path of licenses with some thoughts on choosing one for our project in his article Which License to Choose? He discusses the pros and cons of several open-source licenses and explains the benefits and drawbacks. In Security Corner, Eric Mann discusses Operational Security. He touches on what happens when disaster strikes, learning from mistakes, best practices, and the ongoing quest for security. Next to time, one of the more frustrating areas to code is money, and in this month’s PHP Puzzles Making Some Change, Oscar Merida goes over the challenge of making change. He also shows some solutions to last month’s challenge on the best ways to make change.

We’ve all heard the excuses for not having tests, tests are “confusing”, “difficult”, “takes too long to write”, or are just “complicated.” There’s also a saying, “any tests are better than no test.” In this month, The Workshop, Joe Ferguson goes over one of the easiest ways to get some basic tests in your project with his article Accept Testing with Codeception. I have personally been a huge fan of Edward Barnard’s new DDD Alley column. This month he continues the series with When the New Requirements Arrive, where he talks about what you do when new requirements for a codebase are introduced and how to handle them. He touches on the solid principle, bloated classes, test boundaries, and more. Frank Wallen continues his new column, PSR Pickup, where he moves on to PSR 12 Extended Coding Style Standard and discusses what this PSR is and why you might want to use it in your projects.

Scott Keck-Warren has a contribution in honor of this month’s World Backup Date, Backups For Beginners. Follow along for some inspiration in making sure you have a complete backup system. Ken Marks continues his series, How to Hack Your Home with a Raspberry Pi, with an article showing how to actually hook up your accelerometer to your Pi and start storing the data into a database on the Raspberry Pi.

Our columnists also drive home the point of strengthening our weaknesses. In Understanding Supply Chain Security, Eric Mann will have you realizing that even our code has a supply chain and that its security is crucial to our success. Joe Ferguson’s, Queues With Horizon will help us make our application more robust by offloading some processing to give our application the appearance of higher performance. Chris Tankersly brings us into the Education Station with Software History is Licensing. Oscar Merida helps us strengthen our abilities while testing out a fun PHP Puzzle, Finding Prime Factors. Edward Barnard continues in the DDD Alley with Better Late Than Never, where he talks about his own theories around testing. Our newest column by Frank Wallen, PSR Pickup, will start to teach us about the PHP PSR’s starting with PSR 0 and 1. And finally{}, brought to you by Beth Tucker Long is a great piece on burnout titled I Just Can’t.