Our previous blog post covered tips on code style fixing while working on legacy projects. The blog post was very generic and the ideas are applicable to projects in any language. I mentioned some tips that help your peer developers review your pull requests. What I didn’t mention are...
Legacy projects Old projects (maybe even 6 months or less) often come without test suites, are tightly coupled with an outdated version of a framework (if not: has lots of boilerplate code), and are written without consistency in code style. When working on such a project, it’s tempting to...
When installing a dependency, we are used to installing a version that adheres to a known public interface and does what it promises. That way we can safely use it in our code. A dependency that uses semantic versioning allows you to predict whether it is still going to work...
We have tons of conferences in Brazil related to web technologies. BrazilJS is far the most incredible one, and it relies heavily on JavaScript. Yearly thousands of JavaScript enthusiasts and developers go to POA to have this amazing experience. A few months ago I saw a conference called JSday and...
In PHP we can type hint function arguments since version 5.0. Over the years and with newer versions of PHP the number of possible type hints have increased. Here’s an overview: public function foo( // Since 5.0 self $self, parent $parent, FooInterface $foo, // Since 5.1 array $array,...
1. The Laravel framework has become very popular, between others, for its simplicity and expressiveness. With the recent release of Laravel v5, most of the core dependencies were updated. The same applies to illuminate/config, which is responsible for containing our app’s configuration. We are often involved in projects...
I have already covered how you can easily integrate Elasticsearch with your app, but I haven’t talked anything about how you can query your data. I won’t cover the basics of querying or filtering here, instead I will cover a cool feature called aggregations, it’s a way...
For 6 years in a row now, the PHPBenelux-team organized their annual conference in Antwerp. And yes, madewithlove was present! Dieter and Jonas attended the conference and joined some interesting yet diverse talks. Now I am not going to cover every talk we joined in detail. But I’d love...
A quick tip here, for all PHP developers out there who author packages registered on packagist.org. Add a .gitattributes file in the root of your github repository. The .gitattributes file allows you to configure several things, but the most important thing related to composer is the ability to not...