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I’m starting a greenfield project and I’m terrified.
For years, my main expertise as a software engineer has been modernizing and improving legacy systems. This week, I’m starting a greenfield project and I’m terrified. Here is what I drew from my experience to come up with a battle plan.
Jonas Drieghe
August 04, 2020
Towards better code reviews
Properly reviewing code is hard, but having a good strategy to approach a pull request can solve half of the problem. Add some additional efforts from the PR author into the mix and you have a recipe for success.
Jonas Drieghe
July 14, 2020
Snapshot through the heart
Snapshot through the heart
Emma Fabre
July 02, 2020
Abstractions as simplifications
Abstractions as simplifications
Tony Messias
June 18, 2020
Pointers and tips: dispelling the magic of git merge
Pointers and tips: dispelling the magic of git merge
Zvonimir Spajic
May 18, 2020
Introduction to Inertia.JS
Introduction to Inertia.JS
Tony Messias
April 24, 2020
Grandfathering in legacy
Grandfathering in legacy
Maarten Scholz
April 16, 2020
Follow these 4 steps to take your debugging skills to the next level
Follow these 4 steps to take your debugging skills to the next level
Bert Ramakers
March 27, 2020
What we talk about when we talk about testing
What we talk about when we talk about testing
Zvonimir Spajic
March 26, 2020
Never talk to strangers
Never talk to strangers
Zvonimir Spajic
January 20, 2020
Releasing with confidence
Releasing with confidence
Jonas Drieghe
December 18, 2019
How to be an asshole when testing bugs
How to be an asshole when testing bugs
Steve Tauber
December 10, 2019
Typed property must not be accessed before initialization
Typed property must not be accessed before initialization
Wouter Sioen
December 06, 2019
Getter, Setter, Never?
Getter, Setter, Never?
Zvonimir Spajic
December 04, 2019
Gatsby and the new era of site generators
Gatsby and the new era of site generators
Emma Fabre
November 25, 2019
Stop managing your releases before you start managing your releases
Stop managing your releases before you start managing your releases
Jonas Drieghe
November 19, 2019
Gotta Go Fast: Reducing friction in everyday work
Gotta Go Fast: Reducing friction in everyday work
Emma Fabre
October 29, 2019
A nice app on Elm street
A nice app on Elm street
Emma Fabre
September 15, 2019
Hexagonal Architecture demystified
Hexagonal Architecture demystified
Zvonimir Spajic
September 04, 2019
How to integrate Elasticsearch in your Laravel App – 2019 edition
How to integrate Elasticsearch in your Laravel App – 2019 edition
Tony Messias
August 28, 2019
Catching bugs early with static analysis
Catching bugs early with static analysis
Bram Devries
August 12, 2019
Let’s have pessimistic locking strategies
Let’s have pessimistic locking strategies
Vicky Jáuregui
July 26, 2019
Why do we use bad color schemes?
Why do we use bad color schemes?
Emma Fabre
July 11, 2019
Makefiles for automation and better dev-UI
Makefiles for automation and better dev-UI
Zvonimir Spajic
June 27, 2019
The hidden complexities of search
The hidden complexities of search
Dieter Vanden Eynde
June 14, 2019
Pair programming as a newbie and the fear of judgment
Pair programming as a newbie and the fear of judgment
Michał Karnicki
May 24, 2019
Bridging experience gaps while pair programming
Bridging experience gaps while pair programming
Wouter Sioen
May 20, 2019
Optimizing JavaScript packages for tree shaking
Optimizing JavaScript packages for tree shaking
Geoffrey Dhuyvetters
April 12, 2019
Liskov Substitution Principle Explained
Liskov Substitution Principle Explained
Bert Ramakers
April 04, 2019
Chrome alternatives for devs
Chrome alternatives for devs
Emma Fabre
March 22, 2019
Using MySQL for Testing (on Laravel)
Using MySQL for Testing (on Laravel)
Tony Messias
March 15, 2019
Why good engineers avoid cool solutions
Why good engineers avoid cool solutions
Bert Ramakers
February 27, 2019
The Domain-Driven Design fallacy
The Domain-Driven Design fallacy
Wouter Sioen
February 07, 2019
How efficient is pair programming? Will it work on your team?
How efficient is pair programming? Will it work on your team?
Wouter Sioen
January 15, 2019
Creating a declarative oscillator component with React hooks.
Creating a declarative oscillator component with React hooks.
Geoffrey Dhuyvetters
January 04, 2019
Immutability with immer
Immutability with immer
Emma Fabre
December 13, 2018
Using Prettier in PHP
Using Prettier in PHP
Emma Fabre
November 27, 2018
How to keep pair programming digestible
How to keep pair programming digestible
Wouter Sioen
November 06, 2018
Kubernetes 101 – explaining the basics while running a Laravel application with Redis and MySQL.
Kubernetes 101 – explaining the basics while running a Laravel application with Redis and MySQL.
Tony Messias
October 25, 2018
Firebase and Redux Saga can be friends
Firebase and Redux Saga can be friends
Kaio Brito
August 17, 2018
Refactoring towards testability
Refactoring towards testability
Wouter Sioen
August 07, 2018
Running Kibana with Sense
Running Kibana with Sense
Tony Messias
December 18, 2017
Avoiding Conditionals, an example
Avoiding Conditionals, an example
Tony Messias
August 14, 2017
How we improved our PWA score by 53 points in 4 hours
How we improved our PWA score by 53 points in 4 hours
Frederick Van Brabant
March 13, 2017
How to integrate your Laravel app with Elasticsearch – 2017 edition
How to integrate your Laravel app with Elasticsearch – 2017 edition
Tony Messias
March 06, 2017
Basic understanding of text search in elasticsearch
Basic understanding of text search in elasticsearch
Dieter Vanden Eynde
December 19, 2016
A bird’s eye view on API development
A bird’s eye view on API development
Frederick Van Brabant
November 16, 2016
Introduction to domain driven design
Introduction to domain driven design
Dieter Vanden Eynde
July 11, 2016
Concurrent HTTP requests without opening too many connections
Concurrent HTTP requests without opening too many connections
Hannes Van De Vreken
April 15, 2016
How to build faceted search with facet counters using Elasticsearch
How to build faceted search with facet counters using Elasticsearch
Dieter Vanden Eynde
March 25, 2016
Commands, events, global functions and testing
Commands, events, global functions and testing
Tony Messias
February 26, 2016
Otto: First Impressions
Otto: First Impressions
Tony Messias
November 29, 2015
Thread carefully
Thread carefully
Emma Fabre
November 13, 2015
Set Blackfire to the rain
Set Blackfire to the rain
Emma Fabre
November 09, 2015
Managing data flow on the client-side
Managing data flow on the client-side
Bram Devries
October 21, 2015
Code review
Code review
Dieter Vanden Eynde
October 20, 2015
Webpack your bags
Webpack your bags
Emma Fabre
October 16, 2015
*AwareInterfaces: simple interfaces with getter and setter
*AwareInterfaces: simple interfaces with getter and setter
Hannes Van De Vreken
September 29, 2015
Why You Should Avoid Over-Abstracting
Why You Should Avoid Over-Abstracting
Hannes Van De Vreken
September 28, 2015
PHP Docblock return types
PHP Docblock return types
Hannes Van De Vreken
August 24, 2015
HTTP Client for SDKs
HTTP Client for SDKs
Hannes Van De Vreken
July 31, 2015
Displaying stream progress in PHP
Displaying stream progress in PHP
Hannes Van De Vreken
May 17, 2015
Laravel’s Ecosystem
Laravel’s Ecosystem
Tony Messias
May 15, 2015
Code Style options for Cleaner Diffs
Code Style options for Cleaner Diffs
Hannes Van De Vreken
May 08, 2015
Improving code style when working on a legacy code base
Improving code style when working on a legacy code base
Hannes Van De Vreken
April 27, 2015
Tilde and caret version constraints in Composer
Tilde and caret version constraints in Composer
Hannes Van De Vreken
April 10, 2015
elastic{ON} 2015
elastic{ON} 2015
Dieter Vanden Eynde
March 23, 2015
PHP type hints: self and parent
PHP type hints: self and parent
Hannes Van De Vreken
March 14, 2015
Using illuminate/config v5 outside of Laravel
Using illuminate/config v5 outside of Laravel
Dimitris Savvopoulos
March 05, 2015
Elasticsearch Aggregations
Elasticsearch Aggregations
Tony Messias
February 27, 2015
Use gitattributes to keep your tests out of other people’s production
Use gitattributes to keep your tests out of other people’s production
Hannes Van De Vreken
January 24, 2015
Laravel 5 Command-Oriented Approach
Laravel 5 Command-Oriented Approach
Tony Messias
January 02, 2015
Integrating Elasticsearch with Your Laravel app
Integrating Elasticsearch with Your Laravel app
Tony Messias
January 02, 2015
Laravel IoC container
Laravel IoC container
Hannes Van De Vreken
January 02, 2015
Angular 2.0: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly and The Extremely Ugly
Angular 2.0: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly and The Extremely Ugly
Arjan Eising
November 20, 2014