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PHP has a few ways to generate random numbers, only some are suitable for generation of random numbers or bytes used for password generation or cryptography.

Online voting faces hurdles. Some of the obstacles are technical, but there are important non-technical issues too.

We asked over 1,000 Americans from every state for their opinions about online voting. This is what we found.

Imagining the development process for extending an absentee voting system to allow online submissions.

Don’t work in a vacuum… talk to your team about your code. The value comes from having the conversation.

Automating versioning makes sense, because it helps all the members of the team coordinate the planning, development, testing, and issue reporting.

With the official release today of ZF3 (Zend Framework 3.0), you may be wondering what that means for projects under maintenance, development, and planning. Here is a brief digest of what the release of ZF3 means in practical terms.

Selecting software architecture has non-trivial implications for organizations. Picking the wrong one can often generate additional costs and add complexity which could be avoided otherwise.

Thanks to feature rich SCM software like GitHub it’s now easier than ever to implement peer code reviewing. Changing your code tolerance during peer code reviews can save your project budget.

If you’re getting messages about the ServiceLocatorAwareInterface being deprecated, it’s like a sign from a power above (in this case Zend Framework) that you need to be thinking about refactoring your code.