Understanding Composer: A Simple Analogy of Grocery Shopping for Better Dependency Management
Whether you’re an application developer working in PHP or simply a tech enthusiast interested in the field, you’ve likely encountered Composer. It plays a significant role in managing dependencies for PHP projects. But in today’s blog post, I’ll take a different approach to understanding PHP’s Composer, by seeing it as a personal shopper who buys […]
How to Use SoapUI for Consuming and Testing SOAP Web Services in 6 easy steps
SoapUI is a powerful, user-friendly tool for testing APIs and web services. It is specifically designed to work with SOAP (Simple Object Access Protocol) web services, which are based on XML messaging and use standardized communication protocols for exchanging structured data over the internet. In this tutorial, we’ll walk you through using SoapUI to consume […]
‘As I Began to Love Myself’ – A Poem Written by Kim McMillen
As I began to love myself I found that anguish and emotional suffering are only warning signs that I was living against my own truth. Today, I know, this is Authenticity. As I began to love myself I understood how much it can offend somebody if I try to force my desires on this person, […]
The AI Revolution in Content Creation: GPT-4 and D-ID Transforming Web Development
Artificial Intelligence (AI) has been making waves in various industries, and web development is no exception. With the advent of advanced AI language models like GPT-4 and cutting-edge AI-powered video generation platforms like D-ID, the future of content creation is rapidly changing. In this article, we’ll explore the transformative impact of AI on web development […]
What is the woocommerce_checkout_fields filter and use cases – WooCommerce
woocommerce_checkout_fields is an action hook in WooCommerce that is used to display and modify the checkout fields on the checkout page. When this hook is triggered, it generates an array of checkout fields that are used to build the checkout form. This array includes various fields, such as billing details, shipping details, and order notes, […]
Salesforce and WordPress Integration using 2 free plugins
In this post, you will learn how to integrate WordPress Websites and the Salesforce CRM using free WordPress plugins and following the plugins’ documentation. WordPress and Salesforce As of today, the CMS WordPress is being used in 43% of the Websites worldwide, and Salesforce is one of the leading Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform. Why […]
How to step debug PHP code with Xdebug and PhpStorm on a DDEV setup
What is debugging? Per wikipedia: “In computer programming and software development, debugging is the process of finding and resolving bugs (defects or problems that prevent correct operation) within computer programs, software, or systems.” Per Internet: “Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer.” – Filipe Fortes What […]
You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backward to the technology – Steve Jobs
You’ve got to start with the customer experience and work backward to the technology – Steve Jobs
How to get 100/100 on Google PageSpeed Insights with a WordPress site and the page builder Elementor
I wanted to check if it is possible to get a perfect score of 100/100 on Google PageSpeed Insights with a website built with WordPress, the page builder Elementor and the Astra theme.I decided to build my own website https://davidloor.com/ using WordPress with Elementor and following the recommendations that I will describe below, my website […]
How to co-install composer 1 and composer 2
If you followed the steps at How to set-up a Drupal or WordPress site locally using Docker to set-up a local Drupal 8 site using docker, you will find that the PHP container has composer2 and that Drupal 8 is not compatible with it. The easiest way to get composer 1 up and running when […]