A couple of weeks ago we started a closed beta for Changehub, so it’s a good time to give an introduction to this tool and talk about its history and origin. What does it do Changehub is a tool that turns pull requests written in the keepachangelog format into...
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 run database migrations, insert data into the database from fixtures or seeders, repetitive tasks run by cron, clear the cache (cache:clear), general admin stuff…...
Laravel is awesome. Not just the framework, but its ecosystem. Let me walk you through it and show some of the beauties arround this community. Not just a fullstack framework First of all, I have to say that I don’t participate as much as I want online, but I...
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Legacy projects Old projects (maybe even 6 months or less) often come without test suites, are tightly coupled with an outdated version of a framework (if not: has lots of boilerplate code), and are written without consistency in code style.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...