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Laracon EU 2015 recap
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
PHP Docblock return types
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HTTP Client for SDKs
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Displaying stream progress in PHP
With PHP you can, next to handling HTTP requests, invoke scripts from the command line. For a typical web application this could be used to
Laravel's Ecosystem
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Code Style options for Cleaner Diffs
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
Improving code style when working on a legacy code base
Legacy projects Old projects (maybe even 6 months or less) often come without test suites, are tightly coupled with an outdated version of a framework
Tilde and caret version constraints in Composer
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
JSday Maceio 2015 recap
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
PHP type hints: self and parent
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
Using illuminate/config v5 outside of Laravel
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
Elasticsearch Aggregations
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
Use gitattributes to keep your tests out of other people's production
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
Laravel 5 Command-Oriented Approach
A lot of shiny things around the Laravel world that I would like to talk about, so I chose the new CommandBus that Laravel 5
Integrating Elasticsearch with Your Laravel app
Yo! There’s a revamped version (2022) of this article about integrating Elasticsearch with your Laravel app. Searching is an important part of many applications,