Blog – Applications

A new approach to forms in PHP, based on the Scala Play Framework.

Nick Claywell provides a comparison of Docker and Vagrant with a tutorial for setting up a basic PHP dev environment using Docker containers.

There are many different ways to manage multiple Google Hangouts chat accounts that you use regularly. Nick Claywell tried several different methods and made a tutorial for the setup that he found to be best.

FileMaker’s Web Viewer can be used for more than just viewing content. See how it was integrated with Ruby on Rails.

PHP has a few ways to generate random numbers, only some are suitable for generation of random numbers or bytes used for password generation or cryptography.

Online voting faces hurdles. Some of the obstacles are technical, but there are important non-technical issues too.

We asked over 1,000 Americans from every state for their opinions about online voting. This is what we found.

Imagining the development process for extending an absentee voting system to allow online submissions.

Don’t work in a vacuum… talk to your team about your code. The value comes from having the conversation.

Automating versioning makes sense, because it helps all the members of the team coordinate the planning, development, testing, and issue reporting.