Solving the puzzles posed by a broken, corroded mechanical gizmo found by sponge divers in the waters off a small Greek island might seem, at first thought, unrelated to the problems of debugging a software service or improving the user experience of a new mobile app. But, as…

I’m working on a smallish project to build service endpoints in PHP using the Slim framework. (We’ve used other frameworks in the past but have recently begun to converge on Slim as our go-to because it is lightweight but supports the PSR-7 HTTP message interface standard, which is a requirement for…

Last year, the team working on improving NPR’s Content Management System (CMS), called Seamus, built its first application using the Apache Struts 2 framework. It was actually a migration from a Struts 1 application, so we had a substantial suite of actions that were…