As a small yet busy web agency we often have little time to shout about what we are up to, and also work on secret projects we are unable to tell you …
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Articles discussing new methods and possibilities that we use in our own code, and Open Source code too.
Our inaugural FedEx Day
We here at Practically took 24 hours out of client work to do our first FedEx day – so called because you deliver something the next day. We wanted to…
What is a business web application?
This Whitepaper is jointly written by Job Bains of Obsolete.com and Sam Collett at Practically.io. See more about us at the end of this document.
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[diagram] Level up Cache in WordPress – a Practical Guide
Speed with websites is largely about caching of resources. We explain what, why and how we do things at Practically.
Why is ChatGPT and generative AI okay for industry but not for education?
Or, Why is ChatGPT and generative AI okay for industry but not for education?
Start a new development project on the right foot
Multiple times in Web Development you will go through the process of creating a new repository for a new application or project that you are tasked to…
Divi alt tags done right (in functions.php)
DIVI for WordPress. Load Alt tags in Divi directly from the Media Library, pull alt tags in automatically even when these are added or changed from th…
Yii2 application static analysis with Psalm
Practically has developed a Psalm Yii2 plugin as a static analyser for making sure your object types are refined and defined.
Service Broker Introduction
A service broker is a way of provisioning services and binding them to applications. With a service broker you can provision a database and bind it to…
Mkcert all the things
After Ade Attwood’s recent dive into TLS and creating server certificates with a root ca. This is a much simpler way with mkcert…
Yii2 stream responses
In your Yii2 controller, it is quite common practice to return the stream of a file to the browser for your user to download. However, it’s not so w…
Named regex matches in php
When dealing with those pesky regular expressions trying to get our matches by their index, making your code that little less readable.
Up and running with Kubernetes and Microk8s
Canonical have been doing some awesome work with Microk8s. This program makes it super simple to get up and running fast with Kubernetes.
Git Repository Clean Up
After you have been developing a project for some time your local git repo can become detached from the repository on ‘origin’. Here are a few com…