Ire Aderinokun explains how you can set a performance budget for your website and check that it is conforming to it using Lighthouse. As she points out, Lighthouse can be run from the command line which means we can incorporate the audit into our continuous integration process.

This is a great idea and definitely something I want to develop into my own workflow going forward.

Emily Shaffer has written a great post proposing commenting regular expressions by each individual atom.

Salesforce is one of the biggest CRM services about. CRM stands for customer relationship management if you didn’t know. It comes with a powerful API that allow us to tap into Salesforce to create, retrieve, update and delete records. In this blog post we’ll take an introductory look at how we can use its REST API with PHP.

Last week the first alpha release of CakePHP 4.0 was made available for testing. This means that the next major version of CakePHP is getting nearer. This is a good opportunity to look ahead at the new and changing functionality of the next version of this PHP framework.

How confident are you about deploying to production on a Friday? Should it really be an issue if you have the right tests in place? Chris Coyier’s Make it hard to screw up driven development post is well worth a read if you want to make your code safer to deploy at the end of a working week.