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Migrating a PHP website with hundreds of thousands of urls and 17 years worth of data
Migrating a PHP website with hundreds of thousands of urls and 17 years worth of data

Millions of database entries, hundreds of thousands of users, lots of lessons learned.

PHP 7.4 is out and PHP 7.1 is reaching end of life, are you up to date?
PHP 7.4 is out and PHP 7.1 is reaching end of life, are you up to date?

7.4 is officially out today and 7.2 is really the minimum to be on now.

Creating multi-player, multi-team, real-time games with PHP and Vue JS
Creating multi-player, multi-team, real-time games with PHP and Vue JS

We recently worked on a project to create a live game with multiple teams competing, read about the solution and challenges.

PHP 7.4 is released soon - a quick new feature round up
PHP 7.4 is released soon - a quick new feature round up

PHP 7.4 is due to be released at the end of this month, here's a round-up of the things we're looking forward to

Managing SEO when moving and updating applications and websites
Managing SEO when moving and updating applications and websites

When you want to make big changes to your website or application but don't want to disrupt your SEO performance what do you do?

Upgrading and Updating Older PHP Applications to new versions
Upgrading and Updating Older PHP Applications to new versions

When hosting providers tell you to upgrade, but your developers say it's not possible, what do you do?

The Cowshed Works studio is ready
The Cowshed Works studio is ready

After spending three 12 hour days painting the studio is now complete

Laravel storage directory file permissions
Laravel storage directory file permissions

This one catches me out every time I'm not using a Forge built server!

Floor is down and the walls are going up

The second phase of the new Cowshed Works studio is getting underway

Git commands I use a lot but can't remember!

A few useful git commands that I often need