Over the past decade, I’ve written about my unconventional journey as a developer using an iPad for web development. To me, being device-agnostic is the ultimate freedom — working from anywhere, on any device. I’ve even debugged critical issues from my phone, riding a bus in Seattle — before mobile tools had evolved to what

The web is stateless, but often the apps we build are not. To facilitate state in web apps, PHP provides a session handling mechanism. Sessions are off by default, and enabled with the `session_start()` function. Read more about PHP session handling at https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.session.php If you have worked with PHP sessions before you may have noticed performance issues

how you how to detect mobile devices accessing a Shopify store. Shopify is a great platform for many ecommerce stores. Developing themes is simple with the Liquid template language, however it does have some drawbacks. Liquid templates are pre-rendered on the server and not able to respond dynamically to the device accessing the store. This means whether

My obsession with using an iPad for web development started all the way back with the first generation iPad. Tools then were sparse, but I made it work by jumping through some hoops. Today’s iPad is a much superior machine, and the available apps have come a long way toward making the iPad comfortable enough,

Calling an object that has a protected property that you need access to? This function will allow you to quickly access data stored in protected properties of PHP objects. Note: I tested this on PHP 7.4. It will likely work on other versions, but may need tweaking. Good developers will protect the internals of their