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5 Things Every Developer Needs To Know About Passwords

Until we can get all of our users using a better solution like OAuth or SQRL storing our user’s passwords is going to be a common point of pain for us as developers. In this article, we’re going to discuss how to help our users have good password hygiene and what we should be doing to protect their passwords.

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Link Post and Podcast Roundup: October 2021 Edition

October’s links.

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What is Symmetric and Asymmetric Encryption?

As developers, there are going to be times when we need to be able to keep digital information secret from individuals who we don’t trust. Encryption gives us the ability to keep our secret information secret and allows us to keep our jobs if we work with sensitive information.

In this article, we’re going to discuss the two types of encryption and go over the pros and cons of each.

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What is Encryption and Decryption?

As developers, there are going to be times when we need to be able to keep digital information secret from individuals who we don’t trust. Encryption gives us the ability to keep our secret information secret and allows us to keep our jobs if we work with sensitive information.

In this article, we’re going to go over what encryption is, why we need it, and discuss the major types.

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Superfans Update: November 2021

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Superfans Update: October 2021

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Superfans Update: September 2021

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Link Post and Podcast Roundup: September 2021 Edition

September’s links.

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Test-Driven Development with PHPUnit

In our previous 2 articles (“What is Test Driven Development?” and “Introduction to PHPUnit”), we discussed what Test-Driven Development is and why you should use it and we gave a very basic intro to PHPUnit. In this article, we’ll work through how to use PHPUnit to develop some new features using TDD.

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Introduction to PHPUnit

As developers, we spend a lot of time testing code that we’ve written. Generally, this is a manual process where we write a little code and then type in some inputs to verify we get what we expect. The downside to this process is that it’s very time-consuming to manually enter a bunch of input to see if one of them now fails after we’ve made a change.

What if we could use an automated testing tool to do the hard work for us? That’s where PHPUnit comes into the picture.

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