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A focused technical notebook for development practices that matter in production: readable code, maintainable architecture, reliable data, and operational simplicity.

PHP & Web Development

Modern PHP 8.x patterns, application structure, testing, maintainability, and practical code organization.

Databases & Performance

MariaDB, MySQL, indexing, query optimization, analytics tables, and careful schema design.

Systems & Infrastructure

Hosting, DNS, SSL certificates, Linux administration, deployments, logs, and server reliability.

AI & Engineering

AI-assisted development, embeddings, semantic search, documentation workflows, and automation ideas.

Technical notes with a practical bias.

The focus is not theory for its own sake. The goal is to collect useful development observations, implementation patterns, and decisions that help build better web applications.

PHPMD.net is maintained by Joseph Melnick, a software architect and PHP developer with experience building database-driven web applications, search systems, and multi-tenant platforms.

Code should be understandable first. Readable structure, clear naming, and predictable flow usually beat clever abstractions.

Databases deserve design attention. Indexes, relationships, constraints, and query shape often matter more than adding hardware.

Operational simplicity is a feature. Deployments, backups, monitoring, SSL, and DNS are part of the application experience.

Built around practical development experience.

Articles, examples, and experiments will focus on real implementation problems: performance, maintainability, search, automation, and dependable web systems.

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