Continuous integration

7 posts

Why you should code your infrastructure

Have trouble documenting your infrastructure? Infrastructure as code might be the solution you are looking for.

Running PHPUnit with PHPStorm

Running PHPUnit with PHPStorm

When writing tests, I often find myself switching between the IDE and terminal windows to actually run the tests. On projects with very large test suites this would often lead to situations where I’d spend time waiting for all the tests to finish. I’d get distracted with something...

I'm starting a greenfield project and I'm terrified.

I'm starting a greenfield project and I'm terrified.

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...

Towards better code reviews

Towards better code reviews

Building software isn’t easy. Add the opinions and needs of multiple people into the mix and it can feel almost impossible at times. Learning to collaborate with multiple people on the same software is an essential skill for every software engineer nowadays, as almost no software gets built and...

Releasing with confidence

Releasing with confidence

Still scared to ship to production on Friday afternoon? Even after reading our previous post on maturing your release process? Here’s some practical advice on evolving your releases — from a fearful event to a trivial byproduct of building software. Building a release and go-to-market strategy is only possible when...

Stop managing your releases before you start managing your releases

Stop managing your releases before you start managing your releases

It’s Friday afternoon. Do you deploy to production? A lot of teams are afraid to push their code to production before the weekend because something might go wrong that may impact their well-earned weekend. Today, I don’t want to dive too deep into how we can create enough...

Using Prettier in PHP

Using Prettier in PHP

What is Prettier? Originally from the Javascript ecosystem, Prettier is a code formatter which means it takes your code and makes it – as its name suggests – prettier. There are code formatters for many languages; even Javascript has quite a few of them. Prettier, however, is currently one of the most...

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