The Mysql2 gem is meant to serve the extremely common use-case of connecting, querying and iterating on results. Some database libraries out there serve as direct 1:1 mappings of the already complex C ...

Another year passes. I was hoping to write more articles instead of just these end-of-the-year screeds, but I almost died in the spring semester, and it sucked up my time. Nevertheless, I will go ...

Laravel is a very performant framework, but a standard architecture has one big flaw derived from how PHP works: It has to rebuild the entire framework on every single request. Before continuing, I ...

Even with optimizations, this process still takes 40 to 60 ms on my machine with PHP 8.4. Luckily, for years, the PHP and Laravel worlds have had a solution that dramatically reduces this load time: ...

If you’re looking for a simple-to-use web-based GUI for administering your relational MySQL databases and then some, Adminer may be what you’re looking for. If you’re creating a web application using ...

Some users have been experiencing the “Error: MySQL shutdown unexpectedly” error message when they try to start the MySQL server through the XAMPP web server ...