Vito Tardia (a.k.a. Ragman), is a web designer and full stack developer with 20+ years experience. He builds websites and applications in London, UK. Vito is also a skilled guitarist and music composer and enjoys writing music and jamming with local (hard) rock bands. In 2019 he started the BlueMelt instrumental guitar rock project.
Vito's articles
An in depth implementation guide to building a REST API from scratch, while adhering to best practices in API design.
Go in depth on building a REST API from scratch, while adhering to best practices in API design. Learn how to build REST apps like a pro.
Develop a command line markdown parser with PHP streams. Utilize user made filters to process an MD file and convert it to HTML.
Streams were introduced as a way of generalizing file, network, data compression, and other operations which share a common set of functions and uses.
Apple's Passbook is a very interesting piece of technology that involves a lot of well-known and loved tools like JSON and RESTful APIs. See how to build a sample web app that creates and distributes passes. Though the example presented isn't a full-featured product, it can serve as a nice base to build on for more serious real world uses.
The ePub format is a publishing standard built on top of XHTML. Since PHP is well suited for working with HTML and friends, why not use it to build ebooks?
Easily integrate Mozilla Persona, a new, future-ready distributed authentication system, even before it's supported natively by browsers and mail providers.
See best practices for developing a well-structured application with CakePHP and then deploy it instantly to the cloud with AppFog.
This is a tutorial on how to deploy a well structured CakePHP application on AppFog
Elastic Load Balancers act as a front end for one or many servers. Learn you how to use Amazon DynamoDB as a storage facility for PHP sessions.
PHP sessions management with Amazon Elastic Load Balancer and Amazon DynamoDB
Explore the Dropbox PHP API and see how to build a simple client for accessing files and perform basic operations in your Dropbox account.
Read A cloud dedicated to PHP apps, say hello to PHPFog and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
Read Deploy and Release your Applications with Phing and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
In this article, Vito Tardia will explain some basic uses of the new built-in server and show you how to build a portable personal development server useful for quickly testing your applications.
Read Rapid Application Development with CakePHP and learn with SitePoint. Our web development and design tutorials, courses, and books will teach you HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, Python, and more.
In this article you’ll create a simple link-sharing application. Its user can share a URL with a title and an optional description.