Over the last two years of my career, I've spent most of my time developing in-house software for my company's own use. Most of it involves the management of our own systems infrasctructure, with servers all around the world and the hardware attached to them. I developed tools that ssh…
In the previous post, I explained how to set up and deploy a simple web application to be able to use a Raspberry Pi and the Energenie PiMote control board to switch the remote controlled Energenie sockets I purchased several years ago. In this second part, we will develop the…
Several years ago I purchased a set of Energenie remote controlled sockets that I used to be able to switch on my living room lamps from my sofa. Since I moved, I haven't put them to much use as they're not as convenient y my current house. However, a neighbour…
Lately, I have been developing in JavaScript more than I used to. I have recently discovered the JavaScript functions .map(), .reduce() and .filter(), which are equivalent to my beloved array_map, array_reduce and array_filter in PHP. However, not every browser supports them. They are not supported, for example,…
I am currently doing some research to choose between one of the most popular PHP frameworks for my next project. I have experience using codeigniter and Yii, which are starting to be fairly low in the popularity scale nowadays. They are simple, straightforward and do the job, so I'm still…
As a php engineer, I’m used to using arrays for everything. Arrays in php are very versatile they can work as a traditional integer-indexed array. They can work as a hashmap or associative array, using a string as an index, which can be descriptive of the value it indexes.…
Being PHP an interpreted language, we don't need to compile our programs ourselves. However, that doesn't mean it is never complied. The PHP interpreter compiles and runs it for us so there is still these two phases: compile time and run time. Static properties get their values on run time.…
Since I've been a web engineer, I have come across the most common security problems a web application may fall into. In this post, I'd like to explore the main ones and how to prevent them. Security on the web depends on a variety of instruments, including an elemental concept…