Hi 👋🏻. I'm Matt!

Ready to Grow Your PHP and Go Web Development Skills?

For over 10 years, I've been teaching developers how to build web-based applications with PHP, through tutorials, my books and courses, and content I've written for other sites. More recently, I've been showing how to do so with Go too!

As modern web-based applications require a broad range of knowledge and skills, it can be hard to know what to learn and in what order. To make matters worse, no matter if you're a freelancer or a full-time employee, there's always another ticket to complete or a release to push out.

Given that, finding time to improve your skills can be hard to come by. So, you need a guide you can rely on. I'd love to be that for you.

Why? Besides loving writing and teaching web-based development, each tutorial is:

  • Written in plain English
  • Tested for accuracy
  • Shows the minimum required version of PHP or Go, and the library and package versions required
  • Contains links to further information
  • Plus so much more!

If this sounds like what you're after, head to the blog to get started. If you're short on time, start with the latest tutorials below. Alternatively, check out the books and courses, to dive deep into a given topic or technology.

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Latest from the blog

Live Reload Go Projects with wgo
Fri, Apr 19, 2024

Live Reload Go Projects with wgo

Building web apps in Go is extremely rewarding. However, as Go’s a compiled language, to see changes, you need to restart the app. Needless to say that’s quite tedious! With live reloading, it doesn’t need to be.

Restrict HTTP Request Methods in Go 1.22
Thu, Apr 11, 2024

Restrict HTTP Request Methods in Go 1.22

Restricting HTTP request methods, when working with net/http prior to Go 1.22 was a little complicated. However, that’s all changed. Now, it’s pretty trivial. In this short tutorial, I’ll show you the new approach.

Restrict HTTP Request Methods in Go 1.22
Thu, Apr 11, 2024

Restrict HTTP Request Methods in Go 1.22

Restricting HTTP request methods, when working with net/http prior to Go 1.22 was a little complicated. However, that’s all changed. Now, it’s pretty trivial. In this short tutorial, I’ll show you the new approach.

Go mod tidy - A Quick Introduction
Fri, Apr 5, 2024

Go mod tidy - A Quick Introduction

What is go mod tidy and why you would use it? In this short tutorial you’ll get a brief introduction to what it is and see the essentials of how to use it.