I have previously written a small article called Trying out Arch Linux, first in 2008, then revisited in 2009, approximately a year later. At the time of this writing (2013) I haven't touched Arch Linux in four years. I then decided to re-test it and write some notes. In the previous notes I compared Arch Linux to Debian GNU/Linux (and to some extend FreeBSD and OpenBSD), I will again compare it to Debian GNU/Linux, but will not mention the BSD flavors. In these notes I will not address the prob
What are the facts about procedural programming versus object-oriented programming? https://unixdigest.com/articles/procedural-programming-vs-object-oriented-programming.html
I stumbled upon an article called "Writing modern day PHP applications" in which the author states that he sometimes comes across third party code that he believes exhibit features that were "customary in the 90's". One such feature is applications not having a single point of entry. https://unixdigest.com/articles/web-application-with-a-single-entry-point.html
This tutorial describes how you can keep your home directory in a Git repository. https://unixdigest.com/tutorials/keeping-your-home-in-git.html
In 2008 Roy T. Fielding expressed his frustration with people calling their HTTP-based interfaces for REST API's when in fact they aren't. Today in 2023 nothing has changed, people are still calling their HTTP-based interfaces a REST API, even though they are not. But that's not the worst part of all of this, the worst part is that no HTTP driven API should try to be REST in the first place! https://unixdigest.com/articles/no-your-api-isnt-rest-but-dont-worry-it-really-shouldnt-be.html
What level of complexity do you want to be at? Are you really thinking about and understanding what you're doing or are you just following "trends" and always using a framework?! https://unixdigest.com/articles/to-framework-or-not-to-framework.html
Since the release of the PHP programming language, PHP has been both loved and hated by many. In this article we'll take a look at one of the reasons why PHP really is such "a bummer". https://unixdigest.com/articles/bummer-php.html
On many websites, in a huge amount of Github projects, and in several books, like the book 'Modern PHP, New Features and Good Practices' by John Lockhart, so-called 'modern PHP' is made synonymous to using Composer and Packagist in combination with the usage of the recommendations provided by the PHP-FIG. Lots of people follow these advices almost blindly, but the reality is that this is NOT good practice from a security stand point. https://unixdigest.com/articles/composer-packagist-a-bad-imple
The Internet is filled with articles, blog posts, and forum debates about which programming language or which programming paradigm that is better than another. Python vs. Java vs. PHP vs. Ruby. Procedural vs. object oriented, object oriented vs functional, etc. In this article we'll take a much deeper look at programming languages and programming paradigms and try to understand these concepts from a different angle. https://unixdigest.com/articles/programming-languages-and-programming-paradigms.
