Team building is an important part for any company and maybe even more if the team you’re working with is spread out over the globe. It was the first time I would meet my foreign colleagues in person and I was really looking forward to it! Hanging out in...
Last updated: December 2020 By now you’ve probably heard about this new cool tool on the block called Webpack. If you haven’t looked that much into it you’re probably a bit confused by some people calling it a build tool à la Gulp and other people calling...
Sometimes you see simple interfaces with a getter and a setter for a specific type of object. Some examples are league/event‘s EmitterAwareInterface and league/container‘s ImmutableContainerAwareInterface. Also Zend Framework 2 has a ton of *AwareInterfaces like (but not limited to) these: These packages often come with a...
Some time ago I started working on an existing project, so I read the documentation before diving in. At the top of the contributing.md file there was this sentence: “Abstract when possible”. Quickly I learned the project contained more abstract classes than a normal project. This leads to too...
After Laracon US in Louisville, Kentucky, a few weeks ago it was time for Laracon EU this week. For the third time in a row this great conference happened in Amsterdam. Last year I went to the conference and gave a talk at the community day on the day before...
Return type hinting is great! When I use my IDE and experiment with classes that I haven’t used before, I really love that it tells me what kind of object a method returns to me. My IDE doesn’t use Artificial Intelligence to know that, it reads the PHP...
SDKs I like using SDKs when I’m creating prototypes. It’s super easy to get started. You copy and paste some code samples, fill in the minimal configuration needed and there you have it: your first response from the service you’re checking out. In a world where most...
A couple of weeks ago we started a closed beta for Changehub, so it’s a good time to give an introduction to this tool and talk about its history and origin. What does it do Changehub is a tool that turns pull requests written in the keepachangelog format into...
With PHP you can, next to handling HTTP requests, invoke scripts from the command line. For a typical web application this could be used to run database migrations, insert data into the database from fixtures or seeders, repetitive tasks run by cron, clear the cache (cache:clear), general admin stuff…...
