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Unit testing tips by examples in PHP

I just created a repository on Github with examples of good unit testing in PHP. I still work on these tips. I will also try to write more about some
Saved on: 2021-02-19

Identify All the Things With UUIDs! - Nomad PHP

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Saved on: 2021-02-18

Successful refactoring projects - Prepare to stop at any time — Matthias No

A common case of refactoring-gone-wrong is when refactoring becomes a large project in a branch that can never be merged because the refactoring project is never completed.
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Saved on: 2021-02-17

Should we use a framework? — Matthias Noback - Blog

Since I've been writing a lot about decoupled application development it made sense that one of my readers asked the following question: "Why should we use a framework?" The quick answer is: because you need it. A summary of the reasons: So, yes, you/we need a framework.
Saved on: 2021-02-17

"Tailwind CSS: From Zero to Production" on YouTube – Tailwind CSS

Today we’re excited to release Tailwind CSS: From Zero to Production, a new screencast series that teaches you everything you need to know to get up and running with Tailwind CSS v2.0 from scratch. It’s an eight-part series totaling 1.
Saved on: 2021-02-17

Functorio

You might have heard people say that functional programming is more academic, and real engineering is done in imperative style. I’m going to show you that real engineering is functional, and I’m going to illustrate it using a computer game that is designed by engineers for engineers.
Saved on: 2021-02-16

PHP Internals News podcast :: Globals, and Phasing Out Serializable

Derick Rethans 0:14 Hi I'm Derick. Welcome to PHP internals news, a podcast dedicated to explain the latest developments in the PHP language. This is Episode 75. In this episode, I'm talking with Nikita Popov about a few RFCs that he has been working on over the past few months.
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Saved on: 2021-02-16

Symfony Lock and Messenger component - Happyr developer blog

The lock component have saved me so many times. It helps me with race conditions, it makes my code simpler and my application more reliable. I’m using it to fix all kinds of problems and I’ve noticed that I use a few different methods.
Tags: #symfony #php
Saved on: 2021-02-15

Why I Built Litestream

tl;dr—Despite an exponential increase in computing power, our applications require more machines than ever because of architectural decisions made 25 years ago. You can eliminate much of your complexity and cost by using SQLite & Litestream for your production applications.
Saved on: 2021-02-12

CSS transitions and hover animations, an interactive guide

The world of web animations has become a sprawling jungle of tools and technologies. Libraries like GSAP and Framer Motion and React Spring have sprung up to help us add motion to the DOM. The most fundamental and critical piece, though, is the humble CSS transition.
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Saved on: 2021-02-09

The Rubinoos im Audimax, Hamburg 1978 - Events - Rockpalast - Fernsehen - W

The Rubinoos aus dem kalifornischen Berkeley feiern Ende der Siebziger ihre ersten Erfolge außerhalb der Vereinigten Staaten. Der Rockpalast schnappte zu und filmte ihren Auftritt im Audimax in Hamburg, wo die Band mit ihrem Power Pop ihr Publikum zum Tanzen brachte.
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Saved on: 2021-02-09

Introducing Clerk: All of user management, not just authentication

We thought authentication-as-a-service vendors might ease our pain, but over and over again, we were disappointed by how much extra work was necessary. We never understood why until one friend quipped, "auth-as-a-service really just solves half of 2-factor auth." Then it clicked.
Saved on: 2021-02-09

AWS Cheat Sheets - Tutorials Dojo

While these AWS cheat sheets will save you from going through all the AWS documentations, we still highly recommend that you read those as well as the whitepapers to supplement your exam preparations.
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Saved on: 2021-02-05

The great SameSite confusion

In this post, I dissect a common misconception about the SameSite cookie attribute and I explore its potential impact on Web security. You undoubtedly have heard of the SameSite cookie attribute.
Saved on: 2021-02-05

Things You Can Do With CSS Today — Smashing Magazine

12 min read CSS, Tools, Workflow Share on Twitter, LinkedIn Try monday dev for free! Inclusive Design Patterns For 2025, with Vitaly Friedman Creating and Maintaining Successful Design Systems, with Brad Fost Click here to kickstart your project for free in a matter of minutes.
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Saved on: 2021-02-04

Do Tube

A curated directory of instructional YouTube videos
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Saved on: 2021-02-04

An Ode to Slim

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About

There is a secret that needs to be understood in order to write good software documentation: there isn’t one thing called documentation, there are four. They are: tutorials, how-to guides, technical reference and explanation.
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Saved on: 2021-02-03

7 bite-sized tips for reliable web automation and scraping selectors

If you’re like most developers, you’ve probably encountered Cascading Style Sheet (CSS) selectors for styling webpages. We can mix-and-match CSS selectors to describe any subset of elements on a page.
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Saved on: 2021-02-02

My approach to using z-index. The last time I got straight to the… | by Dav

The last time I got straight to the point people seemed to appreciate it. So… Categorise all uses of z-index as either local or global.
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Saved on: 2021-01-31

Lean and Mean Dev with PhpStorm (for Symfony) Video Tutorial Screencast | S

Unleash the power of PhpStorm for Symfony. Explore the powerful Symfony plugin, enjoy auto-complete namespaces, and more!
Saved on: 2021-01-28

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Saved on: 2021-01-28

A Bootstrapped SaaS Journey to $10K MRR

I'm Jon Yongfook the founder of Bannerbear. $10K MRR is considered something of a SaaS Bootstrapping milestone so I thought I should document how I got here. This is not a secret formula / growth hack, it is just a personal account of growing a startup.
Tags: #business
Saved on: 2021-01-28

Build your own PSR-4 autoloader

Deprecated: Return type of Illuminate\View\ComponentAttributeBag::offsetExists($offset) should either be compatible with ArrayAccess::offsetExists(mixed $offset): bool, or the #[\ReturnTypeWillChange] attribute should be used to temporarily suppress the notice in /Users/pretzelhands/Projects/pretzel
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Saved on: 2021-01-26

Octave Compass

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Saved on: 2021-01-26

A comprehensive list of UX design methods & deliverables

This is an updated version of a list published a few years ago. A map that displays all the touchpoints of the consumer with your brand, as well as the key internal processes involved in it.
Tags: #ux #tools
Saved on: 2021-01-25

Sign-in form best practices

Use cross-platform browser features to build sign-in forms that are secure, accessible and easy to use. If users ever need to log in to your site, then good sign-in form design is critical. This is especially true for people on poor connections, on mobile, in a hurry, or under stress.
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Saved on: 2021-01-25

Software development topics I've changed my mind on after 6 years in the industry

Things I've changed my mind on: Things I now believe, which past me would've squabbled with: Typed languages are better when you're working on a team of people with various experience levels Standups are actually useful for keeping an eye on the newbies.
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Saved on: 2021-01-24

React Authentication: How to Store JWT in a Cookie | by Ryan Chenkie | Medi

If that’s the case, there’s a decent chance that your API is secured somehow. Maybe you’re making authentication and authorization happen with JSON Web Tokens. If so, there’s also a decent chance you’re keeping your JWTs in local storage.
Saved on: 2021-01-22

How We Improved SmashingMag Performance — Smashing Magazine

Vitaly Friedman 33 min read Smashing, Optimization, Performance, Case Studies, Core Web Vitals Share on Twitter, LinkedIn In this article, we’ll take a close look at some of the changes we made on this very site — running on JAMStack with React — to optimize the web performance and improve the
Saved on: 2021-01-22

MuscleWiki - Simplify your workout

MuscleWiki is a fitness app with a comprehensive exercise library that includes videos and written instructions for over 2000 exercises. With a simple and intuitive bodymap that guides you to exercises for a particular muscle, you can simplify your workout with exercises suitable for beginners, intermediate and advanced fitness enthusiasts.
Tags: #health
Saved on: 2021-01-21

Maximally optimizing image loading for the web in 2021

Sara Soueidan said: Maximally optimizing image loading for the web in 2021 by @cramforce Loads of great #performance tips in there, some I didn’t know of before (like the `decoding` attribute 😯) Thread Sebastien Lorber 🇫🇷 said: TIL there's a "decoding" attr in html image in this post fro
Saved on: 2021-01-20

Templates made in Shuffle

An online editor for busy developers. © 2024 Shuffle. All rights reserved.
Saved on: 2021-01-19

Context switching costs more than we give it credit for. - Thinking Through

When I was a junior engineer, one of the best advice I got from a seasoned principal engineer was to batch things, stack rank them in preferred order (by time, size, impact, or priority), and execute. And, be careful when batching them.
Saved on: 2021-01-18

Welcome

Saved on: 2021-01-18

Death of third party cookies: Enter sandbox from Google

Cookies are soon to be a thing of the past; Google wants to play in the Sandbox instead. It might sound rather twee, but this marks a seismic shift in the online ecosystem that will affect us all.
Tags: #privacy
Saved on: 2021-01-18

Gitbar - Il podcast dei developer italiani

Conversazioni sullo sviluppo software fatte davanti a una birra.
Saved on: 2021-01-15

It’s not legacy code — it’s PHP. Vimeo has been using PHP in production… |

In the last year, Vimeo developers have written backend code in lots of languages — PHP, Go, Ruby, Python, NodeJS, Java, C, C++, and a bit of Rust. In 2004, we started with just one: PHP. It was an ideal language for brand-new startups like Vimeo.
Saved on: 2021-01-15

Vite 2, a DX jump into the future | patak

Vite is a next generation frontend tool. It generates optimized builds using the battle tested rollup. But during dev, bundling is avoided with files served on demand over native ESM. It has Hot Module Replacement (HMR) that stays fast independently of your code base size.
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Saved on: 2021-01-15

Archivio Grafica Italiana

The first systematic digital archive dedicated to the Italian graphic design heritage. A growing overview aimed to spread and promote the culture of quality that distinguishes the Italian design tradition.
Tags: #design #art
Saved on: 2021-01-13

Tools for better programming

Recently I discovered these tools that have helped me to control the quality of my code. + https://github.com/rectorphp/rector + https://github.com/
Saved on: 2021-01-13

Build Your Own Text Editor

Welcome! This is an instruction booklet that shows you how to build a text editor in C. The text editor is antirez’s kilo, with some changes.
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Saved on: 2021-01-10

You want overflow: auto, not overflow: scroll | Kilian Valkhof

Every now and then a web developer using a Mac discovers that their beautiful design is littered with scroll bars on other platforms. Either because someone points it out to them or because they attach a mouse to their mac which makes scroll bars appear.
Tags: #webdev #css
Saved on: 2021-01-07

BTI360 | What I've Learned in 45 Years in the Software Industry

Looking back on four decades in the software industry, I’m struck by how much has changed. I started my career with punch cards and I am ending in the era of cloud computing.
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Saved on: 2021-01-06

新しく、スタジオジブリ5作品の場面写真を追加提供致します - スタジオジブリ|STUDIO GHIBLI

新しく、スタジオジブリ5作品の場面写真を追加提供致します。 スタジオジブリ作品の場面写真ですが、今月は、「風の谷のナウシカ」「天空の城ラピュタ」「おもひでぽろぽろ」「レッドタートル」から50枚ずつ、「On Your Mark」から28枚、合計228枚を本日から提供致します。 なお、9月から順次追加
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Saved on: 2021-01-06

Why your team doesn't need to use pull requests

Github introduced the pull request practice, and features to support it, to make it easier for people who run open-source projects to accept contributions from outside their group of trusted committers. Committers are trusted to make changes to the codebase routinely.
Saved on: 2021-01-03

How we boosted our traffic by 504.17% with a SEO-Friendly Web Story

Google Web Stories are a web-based version of the famous “Stories” format that we see on social networking apps like Instagram and TikTok. This new format allows anyone to easily create short, engaging, and dynamic content, which is then playable across any browser on the Open Web.
Tags: #seo
Saved on: 2021-01-03

A half-hour to learn Rust

In order to increase fluency in a programming language, one has to read a lot of it. But how can you read a lot of it if you don't know what it means?
Saved on: 2021-01-02

Modernizing PHP » Blog

How many times have we seen it, where an application does HR, payroll, shipping, billing, makes coffee, sweeps the floors, etc.? Too many times to count for me. The truth is that applications like this, these monoliths, are too large for their own good.
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Saved on: 2020-12-28

Interview advice that got me offers from Google, Microsoft, and Stripe

“What would you say if I asked you to design me a service capable of responding to thousands of user requests every second and latency was critical?” “Umm...that you have to solve this problem at work.
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Saved on: 2020-12-24

Fantasy UIs

LATEST Noah Schloss Star Trek: Picard, Westworld • April 2023 Noah Schloss Star Trek: Picard, Westworld Darby Faccinto Loki, Black Adam Mark Coleran The Island, Mr.
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Saved on: 2020-12-24

How to Favicon in 2021: Six files that fit most needs — Martian Chronicles,

It’s time to rethink how we cook a set of favicons for modern browsers and stop the icon generator madness. Frontend developers currently have to deal with 20+ static PNG files just to display a tiny website logo in a browser tab or on a touchscreen.
Tags: #webdev
Saved on: 2020-12-23

Bare-metal Kubernetes with K3s

Learn how to configure K3s on bare-metal to run a Kubernetes cluster with just as much resilience and fault tolerance as a managed service. This tutorial is a follow-on from my post Kubernetes on bare-metal in 10 minutes from 2017.
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Saved on: 2020-12-22

Live Coding 12-Factor App

Jiang: I'm Emily Jiang. I work for IBM. Actually, I'm based in IBM, UK down in Hursley. I'm the Senior Technical Staff member in IBM. I mainly work on open-source projects, MicroProfile, Open Liberty as an Architect.
Saved on: 2020-12-20

7 Rules for Creating Gorgeous UI – Part 2 (Updated for 2020) – Learn UI Des

This is the second part in a two-part series. You should read the first part first. We’re talking about rules for designing clean and simple UI without needing to attend art school in order to do so.
Saved on: 2020-12-18

Refactoring Am I Rent Stabilized

Revisiting the code of a five year old project.
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Saved on: 2020-12-14

A system to organise your life

Johnny.Decimal is designed to help you find things quickly, with more confidence, and less stress. You assign a unique ID to everything in your life.
Saved on: 2020-12-14

Suspenders for trousers - YouTube

Una breve colonna sonora che racchiude pezzi e bands che in questo anno di pandemia mi hanno fatto crescere il desiderio di andare a vedere concerti e di far...
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Saved on: 2020-12-10

GitHub repositories to improve your programming skills - DEV

1. Free Programming Books Freely available programming books 167k ⭐ Repo: https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books 2. Awesome Awesome lists about all kinds of interesting topics 148k ⭐ Repo: https://github.com/sindresorhus/awesome 3.
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Saved on: 2020-12-10

Lessons from Running a Sale that Earned 3 Month's Profit in a Week | Cory Z

My product Pegasus—a Django boilerplate for SaaS applications—was having its worst sales slump in recent history. Meanwhile, my other product, Place Card Me—an online place card maker—continued to be hit hard by the pandemic, with sales down almost $10,000 from 2019.
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Saved on: 2020-12-10

Building a Scalable E-Commerce Data Model

If selling products online is a core part of your business, then you need to build an e-commerce data model that’s scalable, flexible, and fast. Most off-the-shelf providers like Shopify and BigCommerce are built for small stores selling a few million dollars in orders per month.
Saved on: 2020-12-09

The Modern JavaScript Tutorial

We want to make this open-source project available for people all around the world. Help to translate the content of this tutorial to your language!
Saved on: 2020-12-08

CSS-Only Full-Width Responsive Images 2 Ways | Modern CSS Solutions

In the not to distant past when jQuery was King of the Mountain and CSS3 was still worth being designated as such, the most popular tool for responsive background images was the Backstretch jQuery plugin. According to caniuse.
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Saved on: 2020-12-07

AWS re:Invent 2020 digest — Part 1 | by Adrian Hornsby | Dec, 2020 | Medium

While reInvent just started, the first keynote from Andy Jassy has had a lot of new launches. I know that digesting all the updates takes time and a lot of coffee, so let me help you.
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Saved on: 2020-12-03

10 Must-Read Books for Software Engineers - DEV

Besides all the great offerings of the modern world — podcasts, videos, blogs, etc. — reading a good book is still something many people don’t want to miss.
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Saved on: 2020-12-02

An alternative way to organize the Laravel directory structure // Stefan Ba

In this article, I would like to show you an alternative way to organize your Laravel directory structure. I think the default structure is fine for the most projects. But when it comes down to larger projects I was looking for a different structure.
Saved on: 2020-12-02

The HTML Presentation Framework

reveal.js is an open source HTML presentation framework. It's a tool that enables anyone with a web browser to create fully-featured and beautiful presentations for free. Presentations made with reveal.js are built on open web technologies.
Saved on: 2020-11-28

CloudConf 2020 Live Streaming

Saved on: 2020-11-27

I created my own YouTube algorithm (to stop me wasting time)

I love watching YouTube videos that improve my life in some tangible way. Unfortunately, the YouTube algorithm doesn’t agree. It likes to feed me clickbait and other garbage. This isn’t all that surprising. The algorithm prioritises clicks and watch time.
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Saved on: 2020-11-24

Building Your Color Palette

Ever used one of those fancy color palette generators? You know, the ones where you pick a starting color, tweak some options that probably include some musical jargon like "triad" or "major fourth", and are then bestowed the five perfect color swatches you should use to build your website?
Tags: #webdesign
Saved on: 2020-11-23

Elena Ferrante names her 40 favourite books by female authors | Elena Ferra

Elena Ferrante, the bestselling pseudonymous Italian author behind My Brilliant Friend, has named her favourite 40 books by female authors around the world, with Toni Morrison, Sally Rooney and Zadie Smith all making the cut.
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Saved on: 2020-11-21

The Value-Effort Matrix: A framework for thinking about work

Your product owner comes to you with a request, and suddenly your stomach is tied in knots. There’s something about the request that doesn’t sit right. You blurt out, “well, that’s a lot of work,” because it’s the only thing that comes to mind.
Saved on: 2020-11-19

Ok Google: please publish your DKIM secret keys – A Few Thoughts on Cryptog

The Internet is a dangerous place in the best of times. Sometimes Internet engineers find ways to mitigate the worst of these threats, and sometimes they fail. Every now and then, however, a major Internet company finds a solution that actually makes the situation worse for just about everyone.
Tags: #security
Saved on: 2020-11-17

Testing Spaghetti - Nomad PHP

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Saved on: 2020-11-12

Polypane, the perfect browser for web developers and designers

For developers, designers, QA and marketers looking to improve their workflow. Fix stability issues and update the rendering engine to Chromium 128.
Tags: #webdev #tools
Saved on: 2020-11-12

How Go helped save HealthCare.gov

Paul Smith (from “Obama’s Trauma Team”) tells us the tale of how Go played a big role in the rescuing and rebuilding of the HealthCare.gov website.
Saved on: 2020-11-10

Getting Started with Dotfiles | Dries Vints

Let's draw a situation. Your computer breaks down. And I don't mean the classic "Dammit, my computer broke down, better get it fixed". No, I mean the "Oh shit, my HD is totally fried, I lost everything and there's no way on earth I'll ever get it back"-hell.
Saved on: 2020-11-09

Lights, Camera, Action! My Tech Setup For Recording Courses & Podcasts — Co

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Saved on: 2020-11-06

Website Ranking Tips - On-Demand Webinar - Moz

Listen in and learn from the experts as Cyrus Shepard and John Mueller discuss SEO and how digital marketers and site owners can increase their chances of landing at the top of the SERPs.
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Saved on: 2020-11-06

PHP Internals News podcast :: Short Functions

Derick Rethans 0:15 Hi, I'm Derick, and this is PHP internals news, a weekly podcast dedicated to demystifying the development of the PHP language. Derick Rethans 0:24 Hello, this is Episode 69. Today I'm talking with Larry Garfield, about an RFC that he's just announced called short functions.
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Saved on: 2020-11-06

Voice Driven Development by Emily Shea – Deconstruct

(Editor's note: transcripts don't do talks justice.
Saved on: 2020-11-05

Site-Speed Topography – CSS Wizardry – Web Performance Optimisation

N.B. On 6 June, 2023, I published an updated version of this article. I would encourage you to read after this. A couple of years ago, my first few days on a new web performance project were always slow going.
Saved on: 2020-11-04

CMU 17-313: Foundations of Software Engineering - CMU 17-313: Foundations of Software Engineering

Skip to content 17-313 Foundations of Software Engineering¶ This Week¶ Recitation None! Office Hours Held on the first floor lobby of TCS.
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Saved on: 2020-10-31

Ruby on Rails in a Week

Preface (Note: this post builds off of my previous post, Learning to Learn, and references it a few times—however, this post should still make sense if you missed the first one. Also, this is not a tutorial, but rather a log of my experience learning Ruby on Rails.
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Saved on: 2020-10-30

How Stopping Estimations Helped a Team to Become More Predictable

When making estimations using story points didn’t feel helpful, a team decided to experiment with #NoEstimates. Breaking down stories into smaller tasks gives them insight into their velocity and has made them more predictable.
Saved on: 2020-10-29

Union types - What's new in PHP 8

A union type accepts values of multiple different types, rather than a single one. Learn how they work in PHP 8.
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Saved on: 2020-10-29

Object Oriented Done Right

Alan Kay, the inventor of the term “object-oriented programming”, told a story once during a talk more than 20 years ago. You can build a dog house using only a hammer, nails, planks, and just a little bit of skill. I figure even I would be able to build it given enough time.
Tags: #php #oop
Saved on: 2020-10-29

If not SPAs, What?

A few months ago, I wrote an article about how the SPA pattern has failed to simplify web development. The SPA pattern (Single-Page Apps), I tried to define, was about the React model, which also covers, to a large extent, the model of Vue, Angular, and other frontend frameworks.
Saved on: 2020-10-29

Unconventional Autoloaders (Talk) - Liam Hammett

We use autoloaders in PHP all the time, but if you change your mindset a little, you’ll find they can do a lot more than you might’ve thought.
Tags: #video #php
Saved on: 2020-10-28

PHP 8 - try out all new features - Marcel Pociot's blog about Laravel, PHP

PHP 8 is already in it's release candidate stage, with RC 3 being released on October 29th, and the general availability release targeted for November 26th. So it is time to take a look at all the new and upcoming features of PHP 8. You can take a look at PHP 8's release schedule here.
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Saved on: 2020-10-27
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