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239 articles from this blog
A guide to optimizing PHPStorm's performance through VM options, disabling unused plugins, and managing project indexing.
Stitcher beta 2 release introduces new features like async rendering, sitemap support, and breaking config changes ahead of version 1.0.
A guide to improving programming efficiency by mastering and personalizing keyboard shortcuts and key bindings.
A programmer discusses techniques to reduce cognitive load when reading code, focusing on visual aspects like fonts, spacing, folding, and documentation.
A technique for using responsive images with CSS background properties, enabling flexible hero images with optimized loading.
Explains an object-oriented approach to reading large files line by line in PHP, comparing it to generator functions and file_get_contents.
A technical article explaining process forking in PHP with code examples for asynchronous execution and process management.
A guide to web performance fundamentals, covering mindset, HTML rendering, and practical optimization techniques for developers.
A tutorial on implementing custom array-like collection objects in PHP using the ArrayAccess and Iterator interfaces.
Announcement of Stitcher beta 1 release, detailing bug fixes, installation updates, and new features for the static site generator.
Explores the need for generics in PHP to solve type safety and performance issues with arrays, using blog post collections as an example.
Stitcher CMS alpha 5 released, adding plugin support and PHP 7 compatibility as the final alpha before the beta phase.
Explains Stitcher's plugin system built on Composer autoloading and Symfony's service container, with a practical example.
Announces Stitcher alpha 4 release with HTTP2 server push support, bug fixes, optimizations, and a new CDN configuration parameter.
Explores the conceptual differences between static site generators and caching for web performance, focusing on developer mindset and trade-offs.
A developer discusses implementing an image optimization library within the Stitcher framework's responsive images module.
Explains an algorithm for responsive images that scales based on target file size to optimize bandwidth, with PHP implementation details.
A developer discusses implementing the responsive images spec in Stitcher, focusing on challenges of image downscaling and integration.
A 2015 comparison of popular code editors: Sublime Text, Atom, Brackets, and VS Code, analyzing their out-of-the-box features and package ecosystems.
