I’m tired of lamenting the state of WordPress security and doing nothing to address it. I’m building solutions to turn the conversation around.
Managing Gearman Securely
The impact of an improperly-secured Gearman server grows with the importance of the application using it.
Introducing Sessionz
Introducing a new, middleware-inspired session handler for PHP projects (not just WordPress) called Sessionz. It’s open source; take a look!
Deprecate Magic Constructors in PHP
Along the lines of the argument to make code easier to understand for quick readers, I want to propose something a little less radical and just as useful for devs: Deprecate the magic `__construct()` function.
Clean up your clutter
Global variables are bad, clutter your code, and can be a major stumbling project in terms of project maintainability. Don’t use them.
Scripting vs Programming: PHP and OOP
OOP doesn’t make much sense when we’re talking about a scripting language.