Debugging a PHP application if often more difficult than debugging an application in some other programming language. There are two reasons for this. First, a PHP application rarely consists of only ...

Microsoft is equipping its Azure cloud service with a tool to debug PHP-based Web applications that are running on the platform. The service “offers in-depth insight into how an application is ...

I recently attended a local Ruby usergroup meeting, and was treated to an introduction to the Cucumber behavior-driven development tool. Cucumber allows you to write tests in "plain English" (or any ...

The PHP programming language was first released in 1995, but 23 years later hundreds if not thousands of website developers are still failing to understand the basic ...

Although I have a degree in computer science and teach Microsoft programming, coding is not my day job. As a result, I go through relatively frequent periods when I'm not writing a single line of code ...

After Microsoft open-sourced Roslyn, the compiler technology became the basis for a slew of experimental compilers that allow everything from compiling C# to JavaScript, to providing an interactive ...

Almost 300 years ago, in 1722, Johann Sebastian Bach wrote a book (actually, two volumes) of preludes and fugues in all major and minor keys, “for the profit and use of musical youth desirous of ...