Joshua Johnson articles - 58 total
FireStudio Video Tutorial - Debug Panels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZmFjVfCZ4U Sharing a video I just uploaded as a tutorial and introd...
Wordpress Action Hooks Order of Execution
https://ua1.us/updates/wordpress/wordpress-hook-order-of-execution/
The Vision for FireStudio and Our Other UA1 Labs’ PHP “Fire” Libraries
At UA1 Labs, over the past 2-3 years we have been busy building out a software suite we call FireStud...
FireBug – Adding Your Own Debug Panels
In this tutorial, we will cover how to add your own debug panels to FireBug. This feature of FireBug...
FireTest – Example Unit Testing Individual Classes Without A Framework
I recently got a request on how you might Unit Test an individual class that doesn’t belong to a fram...
How do you solve the data privacy issues of the internet?
If you could invent a solution that solves the problem of data privacy what does that look like?
PHP Unit Tests with FireTest and FireDI
As we talked about before, at UA1 Labs, we were interested in testing our PHP code, but didn’t want t...
FireDI Release 2.1.0
FireDI 2.1.0 was just released. Here’s what’s new: Implemented PSR-11 Container Interface...
FireDI – Advanced Use Cases
FireDI can do a lot more than just resolve your dependencies for you. This tutorial, we are going to...
What's Your Favorite PHP Test Automation Tools?
A post by Joshua Johnson
FireTest – Getting Started
Getting started with FireTest is easy. Our goal with FireTest was to make it as simple as possible to...
The History of FireTest - A New PHP Test Automation Framework
UA1 Labs has officially released version 2.0.0 of FireTest. But why are we so focused on building yet...
FireDI – Getting Started
In this tutorial, you will learn how to get started with FireDI! A quick recap, FireDI is a PHP depen...
FireDI – When Should I Use Dependency Injection?
UA1 Labs has been at this for a while and has made many wonder tools for develope...
FireDI Migration Started
As announced earlier this week, Ulfberht (a dependency injection container written for PHP) has start...
Moving Ulfberht to UA1 Labs and Renaming It To FireDI
Originally started as a learning project back in 2013, I was interested in creating a Dependency Inje...
DreamOS Demo
Over the years, I've built so many prototypes to prove out that different concepts could would. To th...
Bringing uxJS (A Simplified MVVM Framework) To A Modern Standard.
At the point at which I am writing this, uxJS (https://github.com/ua1-labs/uxjs) released some 5 year...
Introduce NoSQL Into Your Legacy LAMP Stack Projects With FireSql
Tired of having to write schema update scripts every time you want to make a change to your MySQL dat...
FireSQL Challenge: Can You Create A Scenario To Create a SQL Injection Attack?
I build a NoSQL solution on top of a SQL database. Take a look at this library https://github.com/ua1...
TweatCreate - A Twitter Bot For Creating Social Art
So I was going through some old files of mine and found a project I had created about 5 years ago. I...
NoSQL Written On Top of MySQL.
At some point, I had a job where they wouldn't allow us to use any thing other than MySQL to store ou...
PHP Dependency Injection The Easy Way
Hey guys, About 6 or 7 years ago I wrote a little PHP library that ended up becoming the a core part...
Building Your Own Tools Is Dumb
I've always heard that building your own tools is dumb. It's always painted in the light of building...
What's the deal with downing PHP development?
I'm trying to wrap my head around why so many developers down PHP development like it is a second cla...
I'm a dev who has a vision for a new internet. I've even started building software, Ask Me Anything!
A post by Joshua Johnson
How does the web look if everyone owned their own data?
Speaking in general, what happens if we move the database to people's homes instead of in the cloud....
iOS Development "There's no information available for In-App Purchases.
I need some help identifying why my iOS app is giving me so much trouble. My iOS app was working fine...
Tutorial – After Installing MySQL on Ubutnu 18.04, Fix “Access denied for user ‘root’@’localhost'” Error
Recently, I came across an issue when installing mysql-server on Ubuntu 18.04. What I found is that a...