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Let's take a look at a new PHP experiment: PHPBot. An interactive PHP manual bot which returns code examples from the manual for easy copy-pasting!

Let's take a look at Mimo - an app aiming to teach programming "on the go". How much PHP can it teach us? Is it the Duolingo of programming?

Sharoze asks some prominent community members about their development workflow - some answers are predictable, others will surprise. What can you relate to?

Christopher goes through new features in Laravel 5.5, explaining and demonstrating each, and linking to further resources about them. Dive into 5.5 now!

Did you know the history of the "string" in computation stretches back all the way to 1944? Come learn why strings are strings, and where they come from!

What is the theory of constraints, and can be it be applied to PHP application development? The answer to the latter is oh yes, and for the former, dive in!

Bert introduces us to the concept of poka yoke - hyper defensive programming by forcing some checks and safeguards that make our code robust and sturdy.

Did you know PHP has an extension for determining genders of first names? It's quite pointless on all levels, and still in the core manual. Weird!

What's the difference between technical and visual debt in code? Which one is more important, more dangerous? Let's discuss their balance in this editorial.

Danny explains why he moved from Laravel to a Go version of his app and explains which advantages a Golang rewrite of his web app brought him.

Discussing recycled conference talks and developers who stop learning after 5pm (when they come home from work). Are you one of them? Can they ever be good?

Chris shares the anecdote of his past John-ness, describing, commenting, and deconstructing how privileged programmers are. Do you know Johns? Are you one?

After we published Francesco's Laravel Package development workflow a month ago, Younes chimes in with his own Laravel Package development approach!

Laracon: the official Laravel conference, is online in this edition. Let's talk about online vs offline conferences, and how they help / hinder networking!

Vlad considers the current state of PHP frameworks in 2017 - where are we? Where can we go from here? Which ones have the highest potential?

Sourcehunt Feb, apart from promoting really interesting open source repos, now also features an app idea of the month, worth a fortune. Check it out!

This year's final Sourcehunt deals with some packages and libraries that have potential and inertia, but never really got critical mass. Let's change that!

Cal Evans, the godfather of the PHP community, discusses the cost of using open source projects, and what you need to do to pay it.

On Oct 7-8, Bruno attended Bulgaria PHP. Here are his impressions, and why you shouldn't miss a conference like this one - it really is something else.

Hacktoberfest is starting! In this Sourcehunt, join DigitalOcean's initiative and get a free limited edition t-shirt for contributing to open source!

After Larry voiced his opinion, Paul Jones chimes in with his stances and suggestions about PHP-FIG and its options going forward.

Larry Garfield, one of PHP-FIG's longest members, sheds a light on his perspective of things - the past, the current drama, and the way forward.

Deji Akala talks about the PHP-FIG, informing us of the current situation it finds itself in, and shedding some light on the "why" of it all.

Another sourcehunt is here! This time, we're featuring conference apps, personal project managers, oauth2 helpers, and more!

Did you miss the PHPUnit 5 train? Hop on board and find out what's new!

In December of 2015, we put out a survey asking you what you liked or disliked about our PHP channel. Now, let's look at the results!

2015 was epic for the PHP channel at SitePoint - but we've got an even bigger appetite for 2016. Help us improve by filling out a short survey!

This month's sourcehunt promotes social network toolkits, command line interface menus, microframeworks, PHP extension managers, and more!

Learn about PHP 7 - its new features, its performance upgrades, places to host it, how to develop with it locally, and more

Phil Sturgeon talks about his experience in Ruby-land after having been in PHP for ages. What does he like? What does he dislike? Find out in PHP vs Ruby!