Legacy projects Old projects (maybe even 6 months or less) often come without test suites, are tightly coupled with an outdated version of a framework (if not: has lots of boilerplate code), and are written without consistency in code style. When working on such a project, it’s tempting to...
When installing a dependency, we are used to installing a version that adheres to a known public interface and does what it promises. That way we can safely use it in our code. A dependency that uses semantic versioning allows you to predict whether it is still going to work...
Last week, Elasticsearch organised their first conference dedicated to the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana). Two days filled with sessions about search, going from in-depth Elasticsearch sessions to use-cases by users. Elasticsearch becomes Elastic Elasticsearch was also the name for the company behind the three ELK products. During the keynote...
We have tons of conferences in Brazil related to web technologies. BrazilJS is far the most incredible one, and it relies heavily on JavaScript. Yearly thousands of JavaScript enthusiasts and developers go to POA to have this amazing experience. A few months ago I saw a conference called JSday and...
In PHP we can type hint function arguments since version 5.0. Over the years and with newer versions of PHP the number of possible type hints have increased. Here’s an overview: Since PHP 5.0 we’ve been able to type hint function arguments and since PHP 7....
My initial plan to write a blogpost every week took a turn for the worse after week #2 when I realized that writing a blogpost isn’t as easy as it looks. It takes a lot of time to selecting the things worth mentioning, and leaving out the things which...
1. The Laravel framework has become very popular, between others, for its simplicity and expressiveness. With the recent release of Laravel v5, most of the core dependencies were updated. The same applies to illuminate/config, which is responsible for containing our app’s configuration. We are often involved in projects...
I have already covered how you can easily integrate Elasticsearch with your app, but I haven’t talked anything about how you can query your data. I won’t cover the basics of querying or filtering here, instead I will cover a cool feature called aggregations, it’s a way...
Sunday, the day before the start of my internship, I got a text message from Andreas (CEO) asking me if I wanted to join him Monday evening on his weekly trip to Rotterdam. Of course I wanted to! Since pictures can tell you more than a boring block of text,...
