api

Introducing Rack Manage

Background As an IT technician, one problem my team and I have faced is trying to track down a specific piece of equipment in one of our many server and network rooms. As a university IT team consisting of mostly students, we have a lot of new and inexperienced technicians not familiar with our server...

Software Highlight: PHP REST Service

PHP REST Service is a smart API server that can automatically generate API endpoints from a class (or manually specified callback functions), using PHP reflection. It’s extremely lightweight with zero dependencies and a single server file, and it packs a ton of features like regex url patterns, JSON, XML, plaintext and custom responses, middleware functions…

PHP, APIs, and the Woes of Taking Over a Codebase

At my job I’m currently the de facto software developer. A couple months ago, the previous software developer graduated, and while I already had some experience with our internal tools and built some of my own, I was now tasked with maintaining and building upon these tools. I was immediately faced with a few challenges:...