The madewithlove team dives into their first Between Us session where they discuss problems that they encounter through their daily work. Today’s topic is refactoring. Vinch Battaglia, CTO in residence, is joined by Jonas Drieghe, software engineer, and Dimi Van Lunter, engineering manager, to gain their insights. Listen to...
I started a greenfield project this week. I knew it was coming after one of our product managers told me about it during lunch a couple of weeks ago. To be honest with you, I was terrified. I’ve been at madewithlove for a little over 4 years now, working...
As I was browsing through Twitter the other day, I saw someone complaining about abstractions among the lines of “we add abstraction layers on top of more abstraction layers and expect the system to be easy to maintain.” I understand this feeling because I’ve also felt that way before....
So many problems in legacy applications stem from invalid state being dragged around throughout the whole application and causing a bug somewhere far away from its origin or just dying a silent death. I’d like to introduce you to a method to handle invalid state in new code without...
Talking to strangers in 1930s Moscow was not a smart thing to do. Mikhail Alexandrovich Berlioz (chairman of the management committee of one of the biggest Moscow literary clubs – MASSOLIT) and his young companion, poet Ivan Nikolayich Poniryov (who wrote under the pseudonym of Bezdomny) knew that all too well....
PHP7.4 introduced this cool new feature called “typed properties” which add the existing PHP type system to class properties. This means that you can now enforce which types a property has without having to encapsulate it in an object. An example class containing typed properties looks like this: class...
The Liskov Substitution Principle is one of the five design principles that make for SOLID code, and probably one of the hardest to fully grasp. Before we dive into how we can apply it to our code, let’s take a look at the definition: In a computer program, if...
In the past months, I have asked myself a lot why we always strive to write perfect code. Picking up coding again for an internal project made me realise our team (and probably a large part of the rest of the software development world) spend a lot of time on...
When working on a legacy codebase, you often have to make changes in code you don’t fully understand. When this code is not tested, you’re never sure that it will still work after adapting it. And will it have unexpected effects on other parts of the codebase? As...