Software Engineering in WordPress, PHP, and Backend Development
I don’t normally do retrospectives for each year for products, posts, work, or anything.
Given that I didn’t write as much as I have in years passed, I thought I’d share what the most popular articles I’ve shared over the last year in hopes of both of surfacing some older content but also setting the tone for the coming year.
Continue readingTL;DR: This final article will demonstrate how to use Ray in WordPress as an example of classic debugging.
No, it’s not the same as something such as Xdebug, but it demonstrates what we can do such as changing variables on the fly and changing the course of execution.
⚠️ If you’ve not already set up your environment, please read this post and make sure you have the free version of Ray installed.
Continue readingTL;DR: Ray makes it easy to start measuring performance of your code both in WordPress and in standalone PHP solutions.
I don’t know if this is something that’s common within WordPress development, but if you’re working on functionality that deals with a lot of files, a batch of operations, or both, then this is something that may be useful.
⚠️ If you’ve not already set up your environment, please read this post and make sure you have the free version of Ray installed.
Continue readingTL;DR: Though knowing how to use a debugger is useful, it can be overkill for some of the work that we’re doing. In this article, we’ll look and see what debugging functionality Ray provides and how we can use it when traditional debugging may be overkill.
⚠️ If you’ve not already set up your environment, please read this post and make sure you have the free version of Ray installed.
Continue readingTL;DR: Callers and Stack Traces are two indispensable tools for debugging code and Ray makes it simpler than most fully-featured debugging environments. This article covers how to both understand what they are and how to use them.
⚠️ If you’ve not already set up your environment, please read this post and make sure you have the free version of Ray installed.
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