The other day I was listening to the FullStackRadio episode 34 which is about dealing with dependencies in Active Record models. This is a very interesting topic and they suggest a few solutions for it. I liked the suggestions and I tried to implement it differently (first try and second...
A new tool called Otto came out recently. It’s a tool from Hashicorp. At the project homepage we can see the headline “meet the successor to Vagrant”. I know most of you are familiarized with Vagrant, but for those that are not: Vagrant is a tool to manage virtual...
As far as I can remember, PHP has always had a terrible reputation at handling very heavy (or asynchronous) tasks. For a long while if you wanted to parallelize long tasks you had to resort to forking through pcntl_fork which had its own issues, and you couldn’t really...
If you’ve ever worked on any PHP application, or package, or anything you know that debugging performance issues is hard. There are several ways to ease the pain a little: debug bars, putting timers a bit everywhere. Or if you’re courageous like I was for a long time,...
I like to think of client-side applications as empty shells that get populated with data and where the source of that data can be anything: an object in your javascript code, an HTTP request, a JSON file, … Making sure this data flows correctly through your application is one hell of...
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...