Exciting Announcements from the  Laravel Framework

As a developer, I am always on the lookout for the “cutting edge” in tech, languages, or frameworks. Most recently I have been following the Laravel framework news, which is a modern and user-friendly PHP framework that I love working in. Following the end of Laracon 2023 (Laravel’s annual convention) there were several big announcements.…

Automated Testing in Laravel

As software development becomes increasingly complex, testing has become a critical part of the software development process. Testing ensures that the application works as expected, and meets the project requirements. Without testing, it is difficult for a developer to make sure the application is working properly. One popular way to make testing as efficient as…

What Is Quality Management

Quality Management has four components: quality planning, quality, assurance, quality control and quality improvement. This article will analyze quality assurance and quality control. Before my many years in the quality assurance and quality control arenas, I assumed they were the same. I could not have been more wrong. I did not realize there are clear…

Where there’s a sale, there’s fraud.

Fraud and other cyber-crime incidents always spike around popular sales events – holidays, Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and Memorial Day are some of the best times of the year for fraudsters. People are busier than usual making personal arrangements and preparing for those blockbuster sales everyone loves. As a result, things get missed, corners get…

Spring Cleaning Tips for Home and Site/App

This will not be an exhaustive list, because your site/app is likely highly unique. This is intended as a periodic reminder that revalidating, retooling, resetting, and refreshing your site/app is a continual process, and there are many things along the way that can impact your site/app. Taking a special “timeout” to focus on spring cleaning…

Prepare for Cyberattacks

It feels like a cyberattack of some kind is constantly in the news – hackers stole sensitive information from this credit card company or all client data was stolen from that bank. Unless the attack directly impacted you – personally or your business – it just becomes background noise in the sea of headlines. However,…